Susan G. Komen Greater Central & East Texas is a nonprofit committed to saving lives locally and fighting breast cancer globally. Komen Greater Central & East Texas is the only local breast cancer organization attacking the disease on all fronts - education, screening, treatment, follow-up care, survivorship support, advocacy and research. The organization serves the women and men in the city’s fifty eight-county area battling breast cancer by removing barriers to care for the uninsured and underinsured. Of the funds raised annually, Komen Greater Central & East Texas invests up to 75 percent into local community health care grants and educational initiatives; the remaining 25 percent is invested into global research studies to find the cures for breast cancer.