(Sandy Cassanelli pictured with her family at the "Taste for the Cure" 2016 event)
Greenough Packaging & Maintenance Supplies, Inc. CEO, Sandy Cassanelli, and her fund partner Heidi Grise, started the new fund called, "Breast Friends Fund".
They
hosted their first fundraising event, “Taste The Cure", on April 8, 2016 at The
Gallery in Glastonbury, CT
The Breast Friends Fund
raised an impressive $30,000 for Dr. Winer and his research team, for Metastic Breast
Cancer at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Sandy
and Heidi have dedicated a lot of time and energy into raising funds to find a cure for breast cancer.
Sandy Cassanelli was diagnosed with Metastatic breast cancer in April of 2015 at 39
years old
When breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body, such
as the bones, brain, liver, or lungs, it is called metastatic (also referred to
as advanced or stage IV).
Although it is not curable, metastatic breast
cancer can be treatable. Today, with new therapies including biologic targeted
treatments and novel drug combinations, women with metastatic breast cancer can
live well for many years.
Dr Eric Winer
joined Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, where he serves as
director of the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers Breast Oncology
Program.
Dr. Winer is also the chief of the Division of Women's Cancers at Dana-Farber
and the Thompson Senior Investigator in Breast Cancer Research. He is a
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Sandy and Heidi and "The Breast Friend
Fund" has committed to raising $100,000 for Dr Winer and his research
team for Metastatic Breast Cancer at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.