These projects fill a significant gap in the delivery of health care services to medically underserved individuals specific to breast cancers.

• The Healthy Woman Outreach Project (HWOP) helps improve CHC patients’ health by increasing access to breast health care. HWOP provides free breast health and cancer education, screening, diagnostic, navigation and treatment support services to low-income, under or uninsured CHC patients.  The primary strength of the project is its ability to provide comprehensive breast health care services to a large number of underserved women and men through the existing CHC system. HWOP is funded by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Denver Metropolitan Affiliate.
• The Breast and Women’s Reproductive Cancers Project (BWRC) is funded by the Colorado Cancer Coalition from funds received from the state tax form line 44.  BWRC increases access to breast health care to patients who do not qualify for Women’s Wellness Connection and where no other funding, such as Komen, is available.

Click here for the 2010/2011 Current Grantee List of the Denver Metropolitan Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

For more information, contact Paula Davis at paula@cchn.org or (303) 861-5165, ext. 286.

RESOURCES

General

• American Cancer Society
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Colorado Cancer Coalition
• Colorado Cancer Research Guide
• Cancer Updates, Research & Education (CURE)
• National Cancer Institute
• National Women’s Health Information Center
• Women’s Wellness Connection

Breast

• Andre Center for Breast Cancer Education and Navigation
• Colorado Breast Cancer Resource Directory
• Colorado Breast Cancer Task Force
• Designing Print Materials: A Communications Guide for Breast Cancer Screening
• Sense of Security
• The Sister Study
• Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Cervical

• HPV and Cervical Cancer: An Update on Prevention Strategies