About Us

The Memorial Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is dedicated to combating breast cancer at every front. Up to 75 percent of the Affiliate’s net income goes toward funding grants to local hospitals and community organizations that provide breast health education and breast cancer screening and treatment programs for medically underserved women. The remaining net income (a minimum of 25 percent) supports the national Komen Grants Program, which funds groundbreaking breast cancer research, meritorious awards and educational and scientific programs around the world.

The Memorial Affiliate’s services area covers 36 counties.  Thanks to the thousands of people who participant in the Race for the Cure® and other Affiliate events each year, dedicated corporate partners and generous donors, the Memorial Affiliate is playing a vital role in fighting breast cancer in our community.

What started as a promise between sisters became the Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, which has become the catalyst for a worldwide movement to end breast cancer forever. Some examples of what Komen for the Cure-funded research and education have accomplished thus far:

• Discovery of the first cancer susceptibility genes.  BRCA1 and BRCA2, allowing many women to 
  understand their risk before cancer develops.

 
• Treatment and prevention strategies for hormone-dependent and HER-2 breast cancers, cutting the
  death rate from those cancers by 50 percent.

 
• Five-year survival rates in the U.S. are now 98 percent for cancers that haven’t spread from the breast,
  up from 74 percent when we started in 1982.