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Breast Cancer Survivor Pays it Forward by Raising Money For Mobile Mammography Marge Morena was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2015. Exactly one week later, her mother passed away. Either circumstance could have broken her. Neither did. Morena laid her mother to rest, and with the loving support of her husband, Rich Lewis, began fighting.
Marge Morena and her husband, Rich Lewis
“I had a relatively easy journey through breast cancer,” said Morena of Cary. “No chemotherapy. No radiation. I prayed with a lot of people and one person said to me, “Marge, God saved your life for a reason.’ I thought about it, prayed on it and decided to get involved with breast cancer awareness. I found out about the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, and my husband and I came up with the team name Marge Madness for 3D Mammograms because the 3D Mammogram saved my life.” A year after her diagnosis, Morena started participating in Susan G. Komen races and hosting a luncheon at Prestonwood Country Club to raise money for the nation’s largest breast cancer research organization that, according to its website, has invested nearly $1.1 billion in cancer research since 1982. In five years, she’s raised over $16,000 for Komen’s Triangle affiliate, but this year she’s redirecting her efforts.
Scenes from the Marge Madness Luncheon event at Prestonwood Country Club.
“Now I’m focusing my fundraising to support the UNC Rex Mobile Mammography Unit,” Morena said. “During the first week in August, Marge Madness sponsored our very first free mammogram event with the mobile unit at Prestonwood County Club and 16 ladies from my church, St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Cary, were provided with free screenings.” To her credit, Morena wants only to help save lives. “I just want to help women live long, healthy lives,” she said. “Whatever I can do through my fundraising to help these ladies is enough for me. I have friends who’ve heard of their friends being diagnosed with breast cancer and they’ll ask me if I’d be willing to speak to them.
Scenes from the Marge Madness Luncheon event at Prestonwood Country Club.
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“I try to encourage them and give them hope and lend whatever support I can,” she continued. “I want to work hard with UNC Rex Mobile Mammography Unit to help take the words breast cancer out of our vocabulary so women and men in my family and in
