WIN ABC currently assists the public through the Breast Aid Education and Outreach and Breast Buddy Breast Care Programs by providing individualized support and disseminating culturally appropriate, relevant information to newly diagnosed patients their families and the public. Many of the educational materials provided to the public free of charge, are available in both in English and Spanish. The holidays can be a difficult time for breast cancer patients. It services many indigent and underserved patients within its vast array of emergency, inpatient and outpatient services. Within those services it sees approximately 3,300 women for possible breast cancer at it's Women's and Children's Hospital.
Breast cancer is a disease that knows no ethnic, socioeconomic, age, gender or cultural boundaries.
Surviving breast cancer, however, is a more uneven experience. Among the estimated 4,650 people who die from breast cancer in California alone annually, a disproportionate number are indigent and underserved, older women with inadequate or no medical insurance.