Crisco to mark breast cancer action day

HARTFORD - Recognizing Connecticut’s global leadership in breast density education and legislation, state Sen. Joseph J. Crisco Jr., D-Woodbridge, will celebrate the third annual Breast Cancer Awareness to Action Day at the State Capitol Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Room 2-C of the Legislative Office Building.

State Sen. Joseph J. Crisco

The event will be hosted by Dr. Nancy M. Cappello, the Director and Founder of Are You Dense, Inc.

Crisco is Senate Chairman of the legislature's Insurance Committee and is a longtime advocate of breast cancer detection and treatment.

The program will feature Damian Musello and Cindy Cardillo of Massachusetts Density Awareness Coalition Advocates; Dr. Jean Weigert, Section Head-Mammography at Hospital of Central Connecticut and Past-President Radiological Society of Connecticut; Jan Kritzman Patient Advocate and Breast Cancer Survivor; Claudia White, Connecticut Breast Cancer Survivor; and other public officials and legislators.

For more information, contact www.AreYouDense.org.

This is a press release from Crisco's office.