American Friends of
Rabin Medical Center
Solidarity Run for Israel
FIFTH Annual
Cheryl Diamond NYC 5K Schlep
Help Save Lives this Father’s Day
Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park
Battery Place, NYC
Sunday, June 21, 9:00 am
RAIN OR SHINE
REGISTER / DONATE
afrmc.kintera.org/schlep15
212-279-2522
www.afrmc.org
Children $18 • Adults $36
CANCER SURVIVORS
WALK / RUN FOR FREE
PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT BENEFIT
THE BRCA MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINIC
AT ISRAEL’S RABIN MEDICAL CENTER
SPONSORED BY
CHERYL DIAMOND NYC 5k SCHLEP
memorializes Cheryl L. Diamond, the
late wife of Warren Diamond. Over 18
months, three most important women
in Warren’s life passed away—Warren’s
wife, Cheryl who passed away from
breast cancer, his sister, Laurie Rosen,
and mother, Helen Weissman. This race
is a tribute to these women of valor by
Warren and Faith Perlmutter Diamond,
their children Scott, Max, and Melissa;
and by Cheryl’s brothers Bruce and
Larry and Warren’s brother Skylar and
his wife Gail, and their children Brittany,
Taylor, Daniel and Alexa Weissman.
American Friends of Rabin Medical Center
636 Broadway, Suite 218, NY, NY 10012
212-279-2522 • www.afrmc.org
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WE ALL KNOW SOMEONE
WITH BREAST OR OVARIAN CANCER
MOTHER. WIFE. SISTER. DAUGHTER. FRIEND. SURVIVOR
FACT: Join the only Jewish Walk/Run in the
world to benefit a BRCA Multidisciplinary
Clinic that serves women and men at high risk
of breast and ovarian cancer at Israel’s Rabin
Medical Center’s Davidoff Cancer Center.
FACT: Rabin Medical Center partners with
Memorial Sloan Kettering and Dana Farber
to eradicate cancer.
FACT: 1 in 7 Jewish women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Over 22,000
women will develop ovarian cancer annually
in the USA. These forms of cancer are more
prevalent among Jewish women in the USA
and Israel.
FACT: 10% of breast cancer patients carry a
mutation in the BRCA genes, facing an 80%
chance of developing breast or ovarian cancer.
FACT: 2% of the Israeli population carries
the mutated gene, (higher than other ethnic
groups). Israeli women with a family history
of multiple malignancies, especially breast
and ovarian cancer, are routinely offered the
BRCA gene test at Rabin Medical Center.
FACT: Proceeds from this event benefit
the BRCA Multidisciplinary Clinic at Israel’s
Rabin Medical Center, a unique early management, life-saving clinic. Women will be
spared by early detection screening and
follow-up for breast and ovarian cancer.
FACT: The Davidoff Cancer Center at Rabin
includes six units and clinics and seven departments to provide treatment for various
types of cancer and will be expanded to twice
its present size by 2017.
Rabin oncology annual Statistics
71,785 Outpatient Visits
50,175Radiation Therapy Treatments
37,502Chemotherapy Treatments
10,124Integrative Medicine Unit
American Friends of Rabin Medical Center (AFRMC), a national 501(c) 3 charity established in
1994, strengthens Israel’s premier hospital, the Rabin Medical Center. It also funds the BRCA
Clinic, and cancer prevention, treatment and research to eradicate this disease.
Peter G. Riguardi, cHAIRMAN Ron Cohen, PRESIDENT Joshua Eli Plaut, Ph.D., Executive Director
SCHLEP PARTNERS: Central Synagogue, El Al Airlines, Congregation Emanu-El
of the City of New York, 14th Street Y, Genentech, IDB Bank, JLL, Shiboleth, Shleppers
Moving & Storage, Storage Blue, and Tamid- The Downtown Synagogue.
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF
RABIN MEDICAL CENTER
FIFTH ANNUAL
SOLIDARITY RUN FOR ISRAEL
HELP SAVE LIVES THIS FATHER’S DAY
CHERYL DIAMOND NYC 5K SCHLEP
Naomi Cohen (far right) with Naomi’s Schleppers.
Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park
Battery Place, NYC
Sunday, June 21, 9:00 am
RAIN OR SHINE
REGISTER / DONATE
afrmc.kintera.org/schlep15
212-279-2522
www.afrmc.org
Children $18 • Adults $36
CANCER SURVIVORS
WALK / RUN FOR FREE
SPONSORED BY
SUPPORTED BY
TAM I D
THE DOWNTOWN
SYNAGOGUE
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American Friends of Rabin Medical Center
636 Broadway, Suite 218, NY, NY 10012
212-279-2522 • www.afrmc.org
Peter G. Riguardi, CHAIRMAN Ron Cohen, PRESIDENT
Joshua Eli Plaut, Ph.D., EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
American Friends of Rabin Medical Center is a 501(c)3.
Facing Breast Cancer & Surviving By Naomi Cohen
My story does not start with a diagnosis
of breast cancer. It starts with me well
before and well after that. Breast cancer
is not who or what I am, but it is a fact of
my life. The very good news – it was over
22 years ago. So if anyone needs hope,
here I am. There is life and a good life after
breast cancer. Do I worry every year when
I have a mammogram – you bet. But if it
happened to me again, I think I would tackle it the same way I did 22 years ago: with
a vision to move forward and a determination to survive. There is an element of
luck and I am one of the lucky ones. I did
not do anything better or different than the
next person, but I was lucky.
I felt I had no choice but to push forward,
take whatever treatment was available
(chemotherapy and radiation concurrently)
and hope for the best because I had a
five year-old to worry about. And frankly,
that kept me motivated to just keep moving forward like a mack truck.
I did learn that you have to be your
own advocate, and you have to know
your own body and mind. When I was
told to just watch the lump in my breast
because ‘it was probably nothing’ I decided to have it removed. My reasoning
was that any lump is not a good thing
and by the time I would realize it was different (bigger), it would probably be too
late. So out it went and lo and behold it
was cancer.
I was steadfast about having the
lump removed no matter what the outcome since a dear friend was battling
stage 4 breast cancer, and unfortunately
she lost that battle a couple of years later. I was fortunate to have been referred
to Dr. Deborah Axelrod whom I still see
to this day. Her treatment, guidance and
friendship have been invaluable.
I never joined a cancer group. There
were at least five women that I knew very
well all going through their own breast
cancer diagnosis, and we all had young
children! So we kept tabs on each other,
commiserated, and compared protocol
regimens. We also laughed a lot, telling
each other about our treatment mishaps,
our loss of body hair, and our perpetual
runny noses. We did laugh, but we cried
as well.
I believe that in my lifetime cancer
treatment will improve. Perhaps a cure will
be discovered. That is why I am thrilled to
be part of the American Friends of Rabin
Medical Center’s NYC 5k Schlep.
What better way to put my time, energy and funds than to ensuring that our
goal will eventually be met. For you, for
me, for our mothers, our daughters, our
sisters, and the men in our lives.
Cancer survivors: come share your personal story
on video at the NYC 5k Schlep on June 21, 2015
PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT BENEFIT
THE BRCA MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINIC AT ISRAEL’S RABIN MEDICAL CENTER
THE BRCA CLINIC AT RABIN PROVIDES
Genetic counseling at first visit
Breast US/ CT/ MRI/ Mammography
Oncology follow-ups
Pelvic Ultrasound examinations
Gynecology follow-ups
Lab tests for tumor or mutations