Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 16, 2024 — Maimonides Health held its annual Ride 2 Live, an electrifying motorcycle ride through Brooklyn in support of breast cancer awareness, treatment, and research at the renowned Maimonides Breast Center, Brooklyn’s first fully accredited breast center.
The event, now in its 16th year, is hosted in partnership with the Bikers of Brooklyn riding club. More than 100 participants began their scenic, hourlong ride at Maimonides Breast Center, and celebrated with an afterparty at Dyker Heights Golf Club.
The ride was led by Dr. Patrick Borgen, Director of the Maimonides Breast Center and Chair of Surgery at Maimonides.
“We are incredibly grateful to everyone who came out today in support of our mission of providing world-class breast cancer care here in Brooklyn at the Maimonides Breast Center,” said Dr. Borgen. “We work with patients every day on their path to becoming survivors. Events like these help us to create more survivors by raising awareness of the importance of regular screenings that allow us to identify this disease in its most treatable stage.”
Ride 2 Live is part of Maimonides’ yearly Breast Cancer Awareness Month programs. Earlier this month, Pink Runway, the Breast Center’s annual breast cancer survivor fashion show, raised nearly $650,000 to purchase new imaging equipment, which will increase the Center’s breast imaging capacity by 20%.
Photos of the event can be found at https://maimo.pixieset.com/ride2liveoctober2024/. To download photos, use PIN 2844.
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About Maimonides Breast Cancer Center:
The Maimonides Breast Cancer Center was the first to open in Brooklyn, remains the largest cancer center in the borough, and is ranked among the top 5% nationally. Top-ranked Maimonides’ breast cancer surgeons, oncologists, psychiatrists and psychologists, radiologists and more within the field, work collaboratively to combat these statistics and to develop advanced therapies and technologies that make breast cancer more treatable than ever. In the United States, about 1 in 8 women, or 13% of the female population, will develop breast cancer during their lifetime. In New York State, breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. For additional information about the nationally recognized clinical services at Maimonides Breast Cancer Center, please visit https://maimo.org/treatments-care/cancer-center/breast-cancer/.
Maimonides Health is Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 320,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1,800+ physicians and more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties and Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children’s Hospital, Brooklyn’s only children’s hospital and only pediatric trauma center.
Maimonides’ clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neurosciences Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. For additional information, please visit www.maimo.org and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok.