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Barbara D. Woolley 07/08/98 08:07:14 PM Record Type: Record To: Neera Tanden/WHO/EOP, Jennifer L. Klein/OPD/EOP, Brenda B. Costello/WHO/EOP CC: Subject: Medicare Mammography Initiative - Drop By - Briefing July 8, 1998 PHOTO OP WITH CORPORATE PARTNERS OF THE MEDICARE MAMMOGRAPHY INITIATIVE DATE: Thursday, July 9, 1998 TIME: 11:00 AM ROOM: Diplomatic Room FROM: Minyon Moore Barbara Woolley I. PURPOSE To thank the corporate partners for their continued support of efforts to highlight the Medicare Mammography Initiative, which provides prevention benefits in order to deter breast cancer. II. BACKGROUND You will participate in a photo op with 18 representatives of the national sponsors and corporate partners of the Medicare Mammography Initiative. This event continues your support for this initiative, which you have been involved with since 1993. Last year, you and the President highlighted the efforts of the Medicare Mammography Initiative and its partners at a Saturday Radio Address during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October of 1997. In 1996, you participated in a panel with breast cancer survivors in Room 450 of the OEOB to highlight the Initiative. On Mothers Day, 1994, you held an event in the East Room with senior women and advocates to highlight your efforts from town hall meetings you had held earlier on this issue.