MFL Board of Directors
Madeline Fiadini LoRe
FOUNDATION
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By Tara Ryazansky Photos Courtesy of The MFL Foundation and Epic Events
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n October, pink ribbons can be found all around Bayonne. At Bayonne Medical Center, an annual MammogramA-Thon, held in partnership with the Madeline Fiadini LoRe Foundation for Cancer Prevention, gives the uninsured access to free screening to honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But for the folks at MFL, the mission to prevent cancer is a year-round quest. “Our programs run all year long,” says Carol Trojan, executive director of the foundation. They do more than just breast cancer screenings.
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“We support mammographies, ultrasounds, oral cancer screenings, and we do colonoscopies.” The community that the Madeline Fiadini LoRe Foundation for Cancer Prevention serves is the one in which they saw the most need. “We serve the undocumented and the working poor. People who have jobs but don’t have insurance. People who have
no other means of covering these tests, no government subsidies and they’re not eligible for charity care, that’s our targeted group,” Trojan says.
Personal Mission Madeline Fiadini LoRe isn’t just a foundation. She’s a person. “Madeline and I have been friends forever. We always say we’re sisters. God
