Queens Native Fran Drescher Returns to Home Borough to Raise Awareness for Cancer

A celebrity cancer survivor visits Queens to raise awareness for cancer screening.

Actress and Queens native Fran Drescher paid a visit to the Project Renewal Scan Van Monday, during its time at the Long Island City Community Healthcare Network (CHN). Drescher's cancer awareness organization, “Cancer Shmancer”, is joining forces with the Scan Van to provide early detection services for women of all incomes and backgrounds.

“The more we can encourage women of low income to get diagnosed early, the more that they can ensure their survival rate,” Drescher, a uterine cancer survivor of 15 years, said.

"It's important that every woman gets their mammogram, gets it done to detect these things earlier,” said participant Carol Wilkins of Ravenswood.

The ScanVan screens more than 5,000 women a year.

 “A location that is familiar, comfortable, trusted like CHN Long Island City it becomes much easier for her to access her mammography,” said Project Renewal’s ScanVan Director, Mary Solomon.

For more information on where you can get your mobile mammography, visit projectrenewal.org.