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Main Contact:
Swim Across the Sound
c/o St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation
2800 Main Street Bridgeport, CT 06606
(203) 576-5451
Email: info@swimacrossthesound.org
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St. Vincent's Foundation Swim Across
the Sound Provides
the Following Cancer Prevention Programs:
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For the following programs:
- Free Mammography, prostrate, and Cervical screening
- Sponsorship of many Cancer Support groups for patients
and families
- Joint Cancer Prevention programs for Hispanic women
with Koemen Foundation
- Corporate and community Cancer Education and Screening
programs
- Public Awareness cancer education programs
- Corporate and community Cancer Education and Screening
programs
- Public Awareness cancer education programs
- Smoking prevention and cessation programs for teens
in middle and high schools in 65 communities
- Free mobile-unit Mammography in partnership with the
Susan G. Koemen Foundation/Connecticut Race for the Cure
and Robert D. Russo, M.D. and Associates Radiology - at
community-based senior centers, churches and synagogues,
local government facilities and for medically underserved
at-risk women at the Southwest Community Health Center
- Financial aid for adult smoking cessation programs
- Prostate Cancer Institute
- Buddy System for prostate cancer patients
- Free Skin Cancer Screening Programs
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(203) 576-5500 |
For the following programs:
- Free Transportation for non-ambulatory cancer patients
with financial need
- Free Medications Assistance Program for patients undergoing
cancer therapy
- Sunday Brunch for cancer patients and families
- Annual Holiday Reception & Dinner for over 300 cancer
patients and their families
- Travel, room and board assistance for Bone Marrow Transplant
cancer patients
- Sponsor Bone Marrow Testing campaigns
- Free wigs and prostheses for women
- Sponsorship of a Cancer Resource Guide for patients
and families
- Nutrition counseling for cancer patients undergoing
cancer therapy
- Free nutrition supplements for patients undergoing
cancer therapy
- Partnership with Y ME to assist newly diagnosed breast
cancer patients
- Cancer prevention services, Suffolk County, L.I.
- Full day-care scholarships for pre-school children
of mothers with cancer
- Personal Crisis Assistance
- Toys for children of mothers with cancer
- Free home care assistance for hospice patients with
financial needs
- Leukemia Blood Borne Cancer Support Group
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(203) 576-6158 |
For the following programs:
- Free Circus for children with cancer and other life-threatening
diseases
- Cancer Survivor Breakfast, co-sponsored with Swiss Army
Brands, Inc.
- Swim Memorial Service for family and friends of cancer
victims
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(203) 576-5451 |
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