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Cancer Center Receives Nancy Pilver Research Fund
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CANCER CENTER RECEIVES NANCY PILVER RESEARCH FUND

On Monday, January 29, 2007, the Connecticut Breast Cancer Coalition (CBCC) donated $7,000 to the Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center. The CBCC Nancy Pilver Research Fund award honors Nancy Pilver, an advocate for breast cancer patients. Hartford Hospital is the first to receive a Connecticut Breast Cancer Coalition grant to further research toward the eradication of breast cancer.

Nancy (with the help of others) was involved with initiatives and legislation including a check off box on the Connecticut State Income Tax form to donate to breast cancer research, the elimination of “drive through mastectomies,” and a bill for funding underinsured women for mammogram screening and breast cancer treatment.

Just prior to her passing she devoted her energy to developing a specialized breast cancer license plate that could be purchased from the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles. The monies collected from the purchase of these license plates were earmarked for research targeting a cure for breast cancer. Nancy believed that a cure would eliminate many of the associated long-term treatment costs related with breast cancer. She personally experienced and witnessed the devastating effects that breast cancer can have on the patient and did not want anyone else to have to suffer. Nancy and her husband (who passed away eight months before Nancy) taxied patients who needed transportation assistance to doctor appointments and treatment facilities. Just before Nancy passed away, she told her daughter her greatest fear was that no one would continue with her mission. Linda Pilver-Yankowski, Nancy’s daughter, remarked at the CBCC check presentation, “As we know, that is far from the truth. I believe my mother had only begun her work for a cure for breast cancer, and her contributions to eradicating breast cancer would have continued.”

The Connecticut Breast Cancer Coalition (CBCC) recently donated $7,000 to the Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center.

Above, from left, Andrew Salner, M.D., director of the Cancer Center, receives a CBCC check from Nancy Pilver’s daughter, Linda Pilver-Yankowski; CBCC member Debra Martin; and Maria L. Palomares, a member of the CBCC and case manager, CBCCEDP, at Hartford Hospital. Ms. Palmares is also the recipient of the Nancy Pilver Breast Cancer Heroine Award, presented to her by Congressman John B. Larson in a ceremony here December 28.
       
   
Last Update: 10-Mar-2007
 
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