Our 2nd Annual Murder at the Mansion fundraiser is coming up on Friday, February 23 and I wanted to take a minute to explain what it’s all about. Sure, it’s a great night out with excellent food, cocktails, prizes, and lots of laughs. But it goes much deeper than that.

Metastatic breast cancer caused over 43,000 deaths in the United States in 2023. Not breast cancer, but metastatic breast cancer. What’s the difference? Metastatic breast cancer occurs when breast cancer cells spread, or metastasize, to different organs in the body. Once that occurs, the cancer is still treatable but it is not curable. Breast cancer deaths do not occur until the cells have metastasized. In spite of that knowledge, a relatively small percentage of breast cancer research funding is focused on metastatic disease. That’s where we come in.

In 2016, the Breast Cancer Network of WNY adopted a resolution to make an annual contribution to metastatic breast cancer research. Since that time, we have donated a total of $75,000 to that cause. We have worked hard to identify where that money will be used for that specific purpose and we want to make an even bigger difference this year.

All of the proceeds from our Murder at the Mansion event will be donated to metastatic breast cancer research and our goal for 2024 is to reach $100,000 in donations since 2016.

So please, help us achieve this goal by supporting Murder at the Mansion. If you can attend, you will be in for a fun evening. If you are unable to attend, perhaps you can help out in other ways.

• Donate a basket or gift card for the basket raffle

• Donate a bottle of wine for the Wine Pull Table (Minimum value of $20 per bottle. Each bottle will be wrapped and sold for a $20 donation.)

• Volunteer for the event

• Distribute flyers to merchants asking for donations