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An interesting article about work proceeding to develop open source collaboration for cancer research information.  NCI currently has a Cancer Genome Atlas, which is part of their CancerBiomedical Informatics Grid.  Both seek to be important open platforms or libraries to share information among cancer researchers, and collaborate on research projects, with the key word being "open".  Researchers and cancer activists alike feel the more  cancer data that is available to the research community, the quicker they'll be able to orga

Our most sincere thanks to Rep. Steve La Tourette and Rep. Marcy Kaptur for their support of H.R. 3067, the Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act 2011.

H. R. 3067 directs the President to create a special Commission to identify opportunities and ideas within both government and the private sector and recommend projects towards the following goals:

1. the primary prevention of breast cancer and;

2. the causes and prevention of breast cancer metastasis

Commission members will be appointed by the President, the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader and will seek to develop a strategic vision to meet these goals by January 2020.

If you live in Rep. Kaptur or Rep. LaTourette's district, please give them a call or send an email thanking them for their co-sponsorship of H.R. 3067.

If your representative hasn't signed on as a cosponsor yet, please give them a call today and ask them to do so.

For more information about the Act and National Breast Cancer Coalition's other initiatives for Breast Cancer Deadline 2020,  please visit their web site.

URGENT!!!!  Deadline Friday, March 16!  National Breast Cancer Coalition is urging breast cancer activists to contact their members of Congress to ask them to sign onto the Dear Colleague Letter in support of renewed funding for the DoD Breast Cancer Research Program.

National Breast Cancer Coalition, through it's Breast Cancer Deadline 2020 project, recently developed a plan to end breast cancer. NBCC believes that, by focusing research efforts on the following key areas, we will have the keys to eradicating the disease.

1. Developing a vaccine to prevent breast cancer and,

2. Focusing research on answering the question of what causes breast cancer to metastasize