"Any further cuts to the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program will be devastating," says Anne Murphy, Director of the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force, in a report by NBC Chicago. Murphy says, "The budget shouldn't be balanced on women's lives."

"Unfortunately, if these cuts are sustained, lives will be lost," she concluded.

More than 170 cancer survivors joined the task force to attend Advocacy Day at the Illinois state capitol on May 12, to lobby legislators to maintain funding. Estimates suggest more than 1800 cancers have been successfully diagnosed in low-income and minority women served by the program in the last year alone.

For more information about the program or to contact Murphy for comment, contact Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force communications at: 312-942-0335[email protected]

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