JCS exec director and family donate $500,000 toward mammography machine in memory of Lindel Steele

ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — A personal loss and a desire to help have inspired Roshane Reid-Koomson, executive director of the Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS), to lead a fundraising effort in support of a new mammography machine.

The effort began after Reid-Koomson joined the society on March 24, 2025, and learned that its only mammography machine was nearing the end of its operational life. The machine is now out of service, and the JCS has had to suspend its mammography screening service.

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“I lost my grandaunt, Lindel Steele, to breast cancer. She did not get the opportunity to have a mammogram or receive treatment. I have also lost other family members to prostate cancer, so this cause in general is personal to me, as well as part of my work,” Reid-Koomson said.