For months, Angela Gonzalez pushed away worries about the lump in her breast. Like many low-income women in Peru, she was too busy caring for her family—and working to support them—to spend hours or days traveling to a health center.

The delay could have cost Angela her life.

With early detection, most women have a good shot at beating breast cancer. But in low- and middle-income countries, mammograms and other standard tools to detect it are seldom available. Most women aren’t diagnosed until the late stages of the disease, when treatment is more complicated and far less effective.

You can help change that. Donate to PATH today and help make healthier lives possible for women everywhere.

PATH specializes in adapting and developing health solutions to empower the world’s most vulnerable women and children. For 40 years, we’ve been partnering with countries and communities to tackle their most urgent health needs and break the cycle of poor health and poverty that limits human potential. Now we’re testing new approaches to make early breast cancer services accessible—so more women survive.

PATH partnered with Peru’s national cancer institute to bring breast cancer detection closer to home for women like Angela. That’s how she met a doctor who knew exactly what to look for—and why he sent her to a cancer specialist, who diagnosed her breast cancer.

While the diagnosis was a blow to this mother of three, it came with a silver lining: Angela’s cancer was detected at stage 2, so she has a good chance of beating it.

Every woman deserves the same chance. Today, we’re expanding this work throughout Peru, and we’re modifying it for other countries—starting with Uganda.

For four decades, PATH has partnered with countries, companies, and communities to create innovative solutions—and to scale them up to save millions of lives. Every woman should have the power to protect her health and her family. No woman should die because her diagnosis came too late. All communities should have the health solutions they need to thrive. That’s PATH’s commitment.

Your gift today makes it possible.