Maimonides Cancer Center honors Brooklyn Nets, community members at annual benefit
On Tuesday night at the scenic LeFrak Center in Prospect Park, roughly 600 people came together for the 2015 Cancer Center Benefit, organized by the Brooklyn-based Maimonides Cancer Center, to celebrate the facility’s 10th anniversary. The event was hosted by Patrick Borgen, M.D., director of the Maimonides Breast Center, and Erminia Rivera, co-chair of the Maimonides Cancer Center Advisory Board.
Rivera opened the event with a story of her own.
“When my family decided to join the battle against this disease, we reached out to the Maimonides Cancer Center and asked, ‘How can we help?’” she said. “Five years later, the number of patients being seen and treated has quadrupled at the Gilbert Rivera Pavilion, named for my late husband — but there are still many more residents of Brooklyn who need these services.”