Pink Alliance breast cancer advocacy organization holds its 22nd annual Surviving & Thriving luncheon

This podcast contains visits with Pink Alliance board secretary Tracy Paine and the featured speaker at the 22nd annual Pink Alliance Surviving & Thriving luncheon, Heidi Floyd.The Pink Alliance breast cancer advocacy organization hosted its 22nd Surviving & Thriving breast cancer awareness luncheon on Monday (October 27).The organization announced launching a new initiative, offering free mammograms on the second Friday of the month starting November 14. Pink Alliance board secretary Tracy Paine said the mammograms will be done from 8 a.m. until noon at Brazos Valley Women's Center.Paine said in 2024, Pink Alliance gave $128,000 dollars of direct patient services to 80 women and one man who live in the seven county Brazos Valley region.The Surviving & Thriving luncheon has raised over $1.36 million dollars to serve and support local breast cancer patients and advance breast health and cancer awareness efforts.This year's keynote speaker was Heidi Floyd of Atlanta, a national advocate who is a two time cancer survivor, a mother of four, and the daughter of a metastatic breast cancer victim.Floyd was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 36 and underwent chemotherapy while she was pregnant with her fourth child.A Pink Alliance news release says Floyd is a public speaker and published author who has also served as the “voice of the patient” for Ford, Google, The U.S. Department of Defense, the American Cancer Society, and the Susan G. Komen foundation.