Uninsured women in the North Texas community can’t afford to fight breast cancer. But, they can’t afford not to.
The Bridge was founded in 1992 to serve as the link between these women and the life-saving care they so desperately need. Only through the help of volunteers and generous donations from the North Texas community is The Bridge able to carry out this vital mission.
Women Without a Bridge
Status or circumstance shouldn’t be a factor in a woman’s fight against breast cancer. Cancer doesn’t care whether a woman is Asian or Caucasian, 16 or 60, insured or not. The care shouldn’t discriminate either. The Bridge serves uninsured and underinsured women in 16 counties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In the past decade, The Bridge has served over 78,000 North Texas women and connected more than 10,000 with medical treatment.
“Women without private health care insurance who have breast cancer receive this diagnosis later and die sooner than privately insured women with breast cancer.”
— New England Journal of Medicine
Crossing the Divide
For every dollar donated, clients of The Bridge receive nearly 10 times that amount in medical care. Over 245 physicians in the Metroplex have graciously volunteered their professional services, and 49 medical facilities have greatly reduced their fees to make such a large discount possible. Your donation goes toward lifesaving evaluations and treatment such as biopsies, medication, and chemotherapy.
Neighbors Being Neighbors
These women have something special in common with you. You call the same city home. You share the same roads, the same stores, the same oxygen. Their voices help bolster yours at a Cowboys game. They work hand in hand with you to make this city thrive. Although you’ve probably never met, you affect each other’s lives every day. That’s nothing out of the ordinary. That’s just neighbors being neighbors.
Your neighbors need your help. They’re facing a dark time in their lives. Every donation is an essential building block in their bridge over breast cancer.
For more information about The Bridge, visit www.bridgebreast.org.
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