UCI Gets $2-Million Breast Cancer Grant

The UCI College of Medicine will receive $2 million from a cosmetics foundation to expand its research and treatment of breast cancer, college officials announced Wednesday.

The grant from the Avon Products Foundation will be spread over the next two years, said Andrew Porterfield, a spokesman for the university’s College of Medicine. “It’s important,” he said, “because it’s the second consecutive grant from Avon. This lets us continue the work we started, not only in creating new products but in helping women who otherwise might fall through the cracks.”

Among the current women’s services the gift will help expand, Porterfield said, are counseling, transportation, home health care, wound care, breast prostheses, genetic testing and counseling, diagnostic and evaluation services, as well as treatments.