Almost everyone in Louisiana has a connection to someone who either has or has been treated for cancer. These are the most diagnosed cancers in Louisiana.
This Sunday, the friends and family of Christy Doga have banned together and are holding a benefit for her in Lake Charles. Doga is suffering from breast cancer and needs help with medical expenses and we all know how expensive that can get!
Since 2004, the Ethel Precht Breast Cancer 3K has been raising funds to help those in Calcasieu and Cameron parishes stricken with the horrible disease. And now, eight years later, it's growing and raising even more money.
We feel pretty confident that everyone reading this has a connection to someone with breast cancer. Unfortunately, that’s the common nature of breast cancer in the modern world. While things are better than they used to be – the overall survival rate of breast cancer is now 85 percent – it’s still too low a number by far. Only a 100-percent survival rate would be acceptable! That’s why the Ethe