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Cancer Institute receives $7,500 grant

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The Prostate Cancer Awareness Alliance (PCAA) of NEPA recently awarded the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute with a $7,500 grant. This generous investment and partnership with PCAA will provide the Cancer Institute with the resources to host a range of prostate cancer education and awareness activities throughout 2016.

Participating in the presentation were, from left: Robert Durkin, PCAA board member; Laura Toole, Director of Community & Patient Services at Northeast Regional Cancer Institute; Karen Saunders, President of Northeast Regional Cancer Institute and Kevin McDonough, PCAA Treasurer.

Absent from the photo: PCAA board members include Bob Breslin, Brian Beppler, Jerry Musheno and Dan Santaniello.

 

Volleyball Tournament Raises Funds for Cancer Institute

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Pictured from left are members of the 2015 Nancy McCormick Volleyball Tournament committee: Ann Tomasello; Karen Saunders, president of the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute; Margy Rainey; Frank Rainey; Jan Needham; Shamus McCormick; Calin Ann Jude McCormick and Erin Kreis.

Committee members from the 9th Annual Nancy McCormick Volleyball Tournament recently presented a check for $3,500 to the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute.

The tournament is hosted each year at Dunmore High School during Memorial Day Weekend by a group of family and friends of the late Nancy McCormick.  Nancy was a teacher, loving wife and mother of five who died from colon cancer.

A portion of proceeds from the tournament supports the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute’s Patient Navigation Program. The Patient Navigation Program helps low income, uninsured and underinsured individuals in northeast Pennsylvania receive necessary breast, cervical and colon cancer screenings.

To date, the tournament has raised approximately $30,500 for the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute.  The Cancer Institute invests 100% of its resources locally.