2.  Since its founding 15 years ago, Men for the
Cure has raised more than $1.5 million for
breast cancer research and care at the
University of Colorado Hospital. Television
newscaster Ed Greene and philanthropist
Sharon Magness Blake started the
organization in memory of their friend Diane
O’Connor Thompson, who died from
complications from breast cancer in late
1999. In 2007, the University of Colorado
Hospital renamed its breast cancer
treatment center after her to honor the
work of Men for the Cure.

3.  The organization came under the umbrella of
the University of Colorado Hospital Foundation
in 2010.
Money raised through Men for the Cure events,
which include an annual gala, dinner
programs, and raffles, also provides funding for
early cancer detection programs and has paid
for medical equipment that includes a
stereotactic biopsy table, a digital specimen
radiography system, and a mobile
mammography unit that has been nicknamed
“The Pink Life Saver.”