2024 Komen Houston Race for the Cure

Jo Castilleja

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Your gift could provide a one month supply of Tamoxifen, a drug used to treat breast cancers that rely on estrogen for growth, to a patient in need. Every 60 seconds, somewhere in the world, someone dies from breast cancer. Your gift will help save lives! Your gift could provide a screening mammogram to an uninsured or underinsured person in need. Your gift could provide a breast prosthesis for an uninsured or underinsured woman in need. Your gift will help us reach our bold goal to reduce the current number of breast cancer deaths by 50% in the U.S. within the next decade!

My Team: Shell USA

My Company: Shell USA, Inc.

My Event: 2024 Komen Houston Race for the Cure®

Date: Saturday, October 5, 2024

My Story

Thank you for honoring my mother- Rosa Maria Castilleja's memory. She lost her fight to triple negative breast cancer in 2008.

We ask for your support this year as we walk as a family with my twin daughters Catalina and Rosamaria. I'm thankful for the outpouring of love and support the past 19 years honoring my mother, especially now with my little girls.

I hope you can join us in raising awareness and further research against this disease. We continue this effort to share with my girls their grandmother's strength and courage.