BIRMINGHAM, Alabama --- For the second year in a row, a donation from a nonprofit group will allow the state health department to keep screening low-income women under the age of 50 for breast cancer into this summer.
The Joy to Life Foundation gave $300,000, which will allow the Alabama Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program to screen women aged 40 to 49 through June 30, officials at the Alabama Department of Public Health announced Thursday. As many as 42 cancers are expected to be diagnosed as a result of the donation.
"Were it not for their donations, we would have been forced to suspend services for these women until the next funding year," State Health Officer Donald Williamson said in a news release.
The screening program began in 1996 and has diagnosed more than 1,900 uninsured women with cancer. But in recent years money has run short, and the federal funds that pay for the bulk of the program can only be used for women older than 50.
Last year, the Montgomery-based Joy to Life also helped continue funding of the program. The group also separately pays for mammograms for women younger than 50.
Source: http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/01/foundations_gift_supports_alab.html
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