Biggest Walk Ever

With over 3500 walkers and raising over $8.2 million, Chicago hosted the biggest Avon Walk for breast cancer ever!

Funding raised by people who walked this weekend went to the following organizations:

The American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) received $1.2 million to fund a national clinical trial on the use of MRI for breast cancer diagnoses, co-led by researchers at Northwestern University.

Northwestern University, the Avon Foundation’s flagship breast care center in Chicago, received $1 million for research into how breast cancer metastasizes, to support a clinical trial to identify new ways to treat and prevent
breast cancer, and to strengthen access to care for underserved women in Chicago.

The University of Illinois at Chicago received $500,000 to launch the Avon Foundation’s prevention research initiative to understand the natural ways pregnancy seems to change a woman’s risk of breast cancer, with the goal of using this knowledge to develop ways to prevent breast cancer in all women.

Provident Hospital of Cook County received $250,000 to fund new equipment and patient navigation for underserved women.

Advocate Trinity Hospital received $250,000 to complement the current Avon Foundation programs at Provident, Stroger and Mount Sinai hospitals. With the funds, Trinity will purchase new equipment and support patient navigation staff.

Southern Illinois Hospital Services (Carbondale, IL) received $250,000 to serve women in Herrin, Murphysboro and Carbondale. The Hospital will use its gift to upgrade its mammography system and employ a patient navigator to work with the underserved women in these rural communities.

Indiana’s Marion General Hospital received $250,000 to purchase new equipment to reduce delays in diagnostics and care following abnormal screening results.