A Promise to Her Sister: Iris Cantor and Four Decades of Breast Cancer Care
A Promise to Her Sister: Iris Cantor and Four Decades of Breast Cancer Care How a personal loss became one of the most enduring commitments to women's health in American philanthropy This October is the first Breast Cancer Awareness Month without Iris Cantor. For many people, her name calls up museums: the Rodin galleries she and her husband, B. Gerald Cantor, helped build across the country, or the Cantor Roof Garden at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. But some of her most lasting work happened far from any gallery, in mammography suites, exam rooms, and community clinics on both coasts. That work began with a loss. A Brooklyn-born pioneer Iris Cantor was born and raised in Brooklyn and started her career on Wall Street at a time when very few women worked there. Through that work she met Bernie Cantor, founder of Cantor Fitzgerald and the world's leading private collector of Auguste Rodin's sculpture....
