Local Cancer Survivor's Event Raises $25K For Doylestown Health

DOYLESTOWN, PA — The 10th Annual “Double D Dance” held earlier this month raised $25,000 for Doylestown Health’s Cancer Institute, organizers announced. That's the most the event has raised in a single dance since it began a decade ago.

The event, hosted by The Minford Foundation and organized by a local breast cancer survivor Debbie Dailey, was held March 9 at the Doylestown Country Club.

All of the proceeds from the event go to Doylestown Health’s Cancer Institute, and specifically to help cover the cost of complementary therapies and nutrition programs for cancer patients. Funding from the event also supports the purchase of wigs for breast cancer patients, according to Doylestown Health.

Since the first event 10 years ago, The Minford Foundation, which was founded in memory of Dailey's aunt, has donated nearly $200,000 to Doylestown Health’s Cancer Institute and other Doylestown Hospital services.

“I said in the very beginning that from pain comes purpose, and giving back to our community has become my purpose,” said Dailey. “I feel blessed to be able to help, in some small way, women who are dealing with the difficult journey of breast cancer. I am also pleased that through our new nutrition and healthy eating program we are helping others who are dealing with cancer – women and men.”

Dailey, a second-grade teacher Doylestown’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel School was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2009. She had a lumpectomy that February, and spent her birthday receiving chemotherapy at Doylestown Health’s Cancer Institute.

“I said to my husband, ‘If everything goes well, next year I want to have a party,’” Dailey said.

So the next year she did just that — and proceeds benefited Doylestown Hospital.

More than 175 people attended this year's event. Prizes and items were donated by local sponsors and businesses in the Central Bucks community.

In addition to the donations from local businesses, financial sponsors for the event included Prestige Institute for Plastic Surgery, Allied Mortgage, CMC Investment Management LLC and Chris and Kristin French.