Free Mammograms Screening for Uninsured Women in NYC

Marisa Acocella Marchetto is the author of a great graphic memoir entitled ‘Cancer Vixen’ — you really have to check it out. (Here’s a review of the book that I wrote for my former blog.)

Marisa has started the Cancer Vixen Fund at St. Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center in NYC.

Anyway, she’s using what’s she’s got going on to help those who are uninsured get mammograms. From her site:

If you are uninsured, and you are diagnosed with cancer, you have a 60 percent greater chance of dying from cancer than if you were insured and diagnosed with cancer.

Marisa is busy promoting an event that takes place tomorrow in NYC for FREE MAMMOGRAM SCREENING — here’s a copy of the flyer with the event details:

Let me know what you think. And please, if you know someone who can benefit, please pass this along!