 Karen Hilburn Breast
and Cervical Cancer Fund
The Karen Hilburn Breast and Cervical
Cancer Fund is available to Mason County women who are non-insured
or underinsured for breast cancer treatment and are receiving treatment
for breast cancer at Mason General Hospital.
 If you would like to apply, please
call MGH at (360) 427-3648 (from Belfair (360) 275-8614) and ask
for Women’s Health in Diagnostic Imaging.
A gift to the Karen Hilburn Breast
and Cervical Cancer Fund will go toward funding
breast and cervical cancer treatment. This much needed fund helps with the expenses
of breast and cervical cancer treatment for those who have no other
financial options.
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October 2008
KAREN HILBURN FUND DONATES $5,000 TO OAKLAND BAY PEDIATRIC CLINIC FOR CANCER PREVENTION
The Karen Hilburn Breast and Cervical Cancer Fund, an affiliate of Mason General Hospital Foundation, recently donated $5,000 to Oakland Bay Pediatrics, Shelton, to help pay for the “Gardasil” vaccine that helps prevent certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV). Gardasil is designed to prevent infection with HPV that currently causes nearly all cases of cervical cancer.
Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in women world-wide, and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women in the majority of developing countries. “This is a wonderful and much needed grant to help administer the three-step vaccination to female patients,” said Terry Megiveron, director of clinic operations for Public Hospital District No. 1 – the governing body that manages Oakland Bay Pediatrics. The three injections are given over a six month period to women from 9 to 26 years of age. To inquire about the Gardasil vaccine, call Oakland Bay Pediatrics at (360) 426-3102.
Karen Hilburn Breast Cancer
Fund Expands Service
 The Karen Hilburn
Breast Cancer Fund recently
announced that it is expanding its service to include the diagnosis
and treatment of cervical cancer at Mason General Hospital for
women living in Mason County who are non-insured, underinsured
or without any other financial option.
“We are very pleased to announce that the Fund has been so successful
that we can extend our help to cervical cancer as well”, said Karen
Hilburn, founder. Until recently, the Fund only provided for
breast cancer diagnosis and treatment at MGH.
The KHBC Fund is as active as ever, with a most recent assistance
of nearly $6,000 to a local woman with breast cancer.
“Without this assistance, we would never have been able to pay for the
treatment”, said the patient’s husband. “We were overwhelmed
with the cost involved, and so grateful and relieved when the (KHBC) Fund came
through for us”. The Fund has been in existence since 2003. More than
five women in Mason County have been helped with their medical expenses for
breast cancer.
The Fund is continually seeking to help women with medical expenses
for breast cancer, and now cervical cancer. Local women who
may be eligible to receive the assistance should call MGH at (360)
427-3648 (from Allyn (360) 275-8614) and ask for Women’s
Health in Diagnostic Imaging.
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