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Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation Authors: Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation Last Revision Date: Friday, 05-Mar-1999 15:32:20 EST Copyright © 1994, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania The Linda Creed Foundation is dedicated to achieving victory over breast cancer. Knowledge, awareness, and action are key weapons in this fight. We want you to know the facts about this disease. Should you or a loved one, however, be diagnosed with breast cancer, we have the resources to help you. We also offer information and support to women who are living with breast cancer. What We Provide Self-Examination instructions: the critical first line of defense against breast cancer. Education: to help you learn the facts about early detection, how often to have mammograms and what your choices are if breast cancer is detected. Affordable Mammograms: through our affiliation with major health care instititions such as Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Jefferson Park Hospital, and Methodist Hospital. Support Network: professionals and women who have had breast cancer help patients, spouses, families, and friends understand and cope emotionally with the disease. Resource Center: provides physician and counseling referrals, information on the latest research, nutritional data, directories of stores that specialize in wigs, make-up, and prostheses. Eva's Room contains books, audio tapes, videos and pamphlets covering a wide range of information frequently sought by newly-diagnosed patients as well as those already in the process of treatment and recovery. Nationally acclaimed songwriter Linda Creed died at the age of 37 after battling breast cancer for 11 years. She is best known for composing, "The Greatest Love of All," which has been recorded by Whitney Houston and George Benson. Other Linda Creed songs have resulted in gold albums for Roberta Flack, George Benson and Diana Ross, as well as two platinum albums for Teddy Pendergrass. Linda Creed is one of two Philadelphia area women whose faces and stories appear in The Face of Breast Cancer: A Photographic Exhibit. A Mt. Airy native and Germantown High School graduate, Creed was living in Ambler, Montgomery County with her husband and children at the time of her death. Soon thereafter, The Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation was born with the mission of providing education and support and raising awareness. As part of fulfilling its mission, the Foundation provideds free mammography screenings for uninsured and underinsured women. Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation Medical Tower Building 255 South 17th Street, Suite 905 Philadelphia, PA 19103 Phone: 215-545-0800 FAX: 215-545-8503

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