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Wheaton moves Komen for the Cure® Tissue Bank at the IU
Simon Cancer Center to Komen Evansville Race for the Cure®
Indianapolis-based Wheaton World Wide Moving will transport tissue bank equipment to Evansville for blood sample collection
EVANSVILLE, IND — As part of the effort to find a cure for breast cancer, Wheaton World Wide Moving is moving the Indianapolis-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® in Evansville, Ind. Wheaton will carry the equipment necessary for the Tissue Bank to collect blood samples from volunteers in attendance at the September 19 Race for the Cure.
Members of the Tissue Bank staff and more than 200 volunteers will collect and process blood samples from 6:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. at the Race site. To participate in the Evansville blood collection event, the only requirements are that individuals must be female and at least 18 years old.
“Breast cancer is something that clearly affects many of our customers. After all, women tend to be the chief decision makers when it comes to arranging a move,” said Dave Witzerman, president of Wheaton World Wide Moving. “This is a great opportunity for us to give back to that same group. Finding the cure for breast cancer is such an enormous undertaking. Anything we can do to play a role in finding a cure is well worth doing.”
Wheaton regularly partners with the Tissue Bank to transport equipment to local and national collection sites. For more than 40 years, Wheaton has earned the Good Housekeeping Seal for its interstate moving services. This year, Wheaton will offer free subscriptions to Good Housekeeping to volunteers who give blood samples to the Tissue Bank at the race in Evansville.
About The Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center
The tissue bank was created in response to a need articulated by scientists carrying out breast cancer research. To discover what is abnormal, it is first necessary to know what is normal. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center (KTB) is a repository of whole blood, DNA, serum and frozen human breast tissue. In the future, it will also contain plasma and cDNA derived from tissue RNA. The donors to this repository are volunteers. What sets the KTB apart from all other tissue and blood repositories is that a vast majority of our donors are without evidence of breast cancer. Each sample is annotated with detailed information about the donor. The samples and annotation are cataloged in the KTB searchable database which can be found on its website: www.komentissuebank.iu.edu.
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