Texas Nonprofit Groups Join Forces to Fight Breast Cancer

The Rose, a Houston charity that helps prevent and treat cancer in low-income women, used to try to do everything.

In addition to providing screening, diagnostic, and follow-up procedures, such as mammography, ultrasounds, and bone-density screening, the Rose also attempted to do things for which the charity wasn't as well-equipped, like educating women about breast cancer and getting them in the door of the clinic, or reaching out to Asian-American women, says Dorothy Gibbons, the

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