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Safeway is working toward curing breast cancer

By Amy Poffenbarger | Published: October 1, 2012

Have you been to the grocery store lately? We’d like to thank Safeway for their efforts in helping find a cure for breast cancer. For the month of October, you can donate your leftover pennies, nickels, dimes, (or hundred dollar bills) to their check stand canisters.  Across Washington State, Safeway is collecting donations for cancer research at Seattle Cancer [...]

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MammoVan fueled by donations

By Sally James | Published: April 11, 2012

People putting change into donation jars at grocery stores helps give women screening that may save lives. In a video news report, you can hear about what the writer calls “small change” that fuels big programs, including the SCCA’s own MammoVan, which brings a mobile mammography clinic to women all over the Puget Sound region. [...]

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The SCCA MammoVan, a breast cancer screening clinic on wheels, goes to church

By Sally James | Published: April 4, 2012

The SCCA MammoVan, a mobile mammography clinic, came to a Tacoma church on March 24, for a full day of serving a Spanish-speaking congregation called Centro de Vida. The pastors of this congregation, which numbers about 1,200, wanted the MammoVan to come and offer screening mammograms for as many members as possible. The MammoVan, which [...]

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