Dear Women Playing For T.I.M.E.,
On behalf of the patients, families, and professional staff of M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, thank you for all of the time, energy and more than $7 million of support you have provided to us over the past 16 years.
Since Elaine Lustig and Sheila Solomon co-founded Women Playing for T.I.M.E. in 1993 as a way for Central Florida women to become actively involved in the fight against breast cancer, you have proven the power of uniting passion with purpose.
The funds you have raised through your golf, tennis, personal relationships with donors and Foundations and other events have provided critical support, enhancing the care we provide across the board. You have allowed us to engage in additional research on promising new treatments, purchase new equipment and technology, improve patient transportation and reach out to better educate the women in our community about the importance of prevention and early detection.
Your actions have been felt, and your voices have been heard in the lives of the thousands of patients who have come through our doors. I am proud to say that the way patients are diagnosed and receive treatment at our center is significantly better than before these two women and the hundreds of others who joined them dedicated their volunteerism to making a difference in the fight against cancer.
This coming year brings great promise and opportunity as we move our Cancer Research Institute to a new home in the “medical city” at Lake Nona. We need Women Playing For T.I.M.E. now more than ever before to continue to make our center a premier provider of quality and compassionate cancer care. I hope we can continue to count on your support. Your ingenuity and dedication is contagious and will no doubt inspire others to do the same.
Cordially yours,
Clarence H. (Buck) Brown III, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando