Breast Cancer (Funding)
Taxpayers Urged To Check Off Tax Forms To Donate to Breast Cancer
Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 27th, 1997
Lawmakers and breast cancer research advocates announced that there is a breast cancer checkoff on the 1996 state income tax forms. They said taxpayers should check Line 55 to help.
The money taken from the refunds goes toward additional breast cancer research projects at nonprofit institutions statewide. The New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research said the state consistently ranks among the top ten for breast cancer cases and deaths in the United States.
"Our best chance to tilt the scales back in our favor and save thousands of women from this life-threatening disease...
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