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DONORS ARE INSPIRED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

The following is an excerpt from an article written in the Globe And Mail on Thursday, June 23, 2005. It was included within a special report produced by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation entitled Creating a Future Without Breast Cancer.

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When you lose the love of your life to breast cancer before the age of thirty, you become driven by and overwhelming intensity. At least that’s what happened to Dr. Aubrey Green.

“When my wife passed away at the age of 28, my only goal was to honour her and try to give something back,” says the Toronto chiropractor, 30, who created the Brenda Green Love for Life Foundation to support breast cancer research and patient help. “My goal is to raise hundreds of thousand’s if not millions, of dollars in my wife’s honour.”

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation has been made a significant beneficiary of his efforts, he remarks, because, “I know it’s an organization that was founded with great intent. I acknowledge the hard work, dedication, and time that people have put in at the Foundation.”

Aubrey, who still wears his wedding ring and speaks movingly of the continual pain of his loss, not only works to raise funds, but takes time to speak of his experience to groups, with special consideration to alerting young people.

Brenda Green was just 26 when she was diagnosed in 2001, an age at which many don’t realize that breast cancer is even a possibility.
“Brenda was a vibrant young woman who wanted to live more then anybody I’ve met,” he adds. “People have to know breast cancer can strike anyone, at any age, and it’s not always a favourable outcome.”