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LANCASTER, Pa. - The Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition (PBCC) and Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray will hold a press conference on Tuesday, February 14, at 5:30 p.m., in the Mayor's Conference Room, Lancaster City Hall, 120 N. Duke Street (corner of Marion Street), to celebrate the PBCC’s Income Tax Check-Off for Breast Cancer Research campaign. Speakers include Mayor Gray; Heather Hibshman, PBCC Executive Director; Alice Sanders, PBCC South Central Vice President; and Bonnie Squires, PBCC Vice President for Development.
Since the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition’s Income Tax Check-Off was signed into law, this highly successful and unique cancer research initiative has raised over $1.7 million for Pennsylvania-based cancer researchers. Thousands of PA taxpayers contribute an average of $8.00 from their refunds and every penny of the money raised goes directly to PA-based cancer researchers. Pennsylvanians are reminded to check line 35 on the PA-40 tax form to donate all or part of their state tax refund to breast and cervical cancer research.
PBCC President and Founder, Pat Halpin-Murphy said, “When we began the Income Tax Check-Off we knew it would provide vital, life-saving research. The incredible success of this simple and effective way to raise research dollars renews our commitment to find a cure for breast cancer now… so our daughters won’t have to.”
Ms. Halpin-Murphy chairs the PA Cancer Control, Prevention and Research Advisory Board’s Income Tax Check-Off Committee, which recommends how the refund donations should be distributed.
The PBCC, founded in 1993, is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the breast cancer epidemic through research, education, outreach and advocacy. The PBCC insured the passage of several crucial pieces of Commonwealth legislation: The Breast and Cervical Cancer Research Act, which allows taxpayers to donate all or part of their state income tax refunds to breast and cervical cancer research; The Breast Cancer Reconstructive Surgery Act, which mandates insurance coverage for post-mastectomy breast reconstruction and prohibits outpatient mastectomies; and The Pennsylvania Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Screening Act, which provides free mammograms to eligible women 40 to 49.
For more information about the PBCC visit our website at www.pabreastcancer.org or call 717/738-9567 or toll free 1-800-377-8828.
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