You can help!

The Race for the Cure is going a step further this year. Besides the run/walk that over the years has raised millions of dollars for breast cancer research, this year, organizers are bringing the research here. Letting YOU be a real part of finding a cure to end breast cancer.
Sheila Hauck, an organizer with Komen Evansville says "we need hundreds, thousands of women to come out, 18 years old and up. It only will take 20 minutes, a small stick in the arm."
Two tablespoons - that's all the blood they need. Your sample, along with all the others from Evansville will be sent to the IU Simon Cancer Center in Indianapolis to be used in research around the world.
Hauck says the research will compare women with breast cancer to women that don't have breast cancer. "Finding the small things in the tissue and cells the genetic link that triggers what turns on that cell to divide out abnormally -- what starts that cancer."
Turning a parking lot in downtown Evansville into a donation center is a huge, unprecedented task for Komen Evansville. And organizers say the only way they can pull it off, is with your help.
"We need over 200 volunteers to make this run smoothly." Hauck says, "We need regular folks to greet and help people in to the tent and we need people trained in medical field that know what research is about and help people fill out consent forms and we need people who know how to draw blood."
Mary-Beth Owen, one of the original organizers of the Race for the Cure says, "It is a tremendous responsibility but it's a privilege that Komen has chosen Evansville as the only site in the US to do this tissue blood bank draw."

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