Research

National Breast Cancer Coalition's  Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act (HR 1830 and S 865) continues to gain support in both the House and Senate.  In the latest news on the Act, Senator Sherrod Brown announces his co-sponsorship of the Senate version of the bill at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center.

While you may be seeing this in the news, it's probably best to read the research findings published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).  The study involved analysis of SEER data for breast cancer diagnosis in women between 1973 and 2009.  

Some of the articles published in the news media thus far are somewhat confusing and lacking in complete information.

Link to JAMA article here

The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) is being held Dec. 4 - 8, 2012.  We'll update the blog with some highlights as they develop.

Molecular Assays

The following op-ed was written by one of the Dartmouth researchers who recently published a study showing excessive overdiagnosis of breast cancer through screening mammography.

Cancer Survivor Or Victim Of Overdiagnosis?

Hope to see you tomorrow at our 11th Annual Breast Cancer Seminar - Breast Cancer Deadline 2020

When: Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 - Noon to 2 pm

Where: Brecksville Community Center, 1 Community Drive, Brecksville, OH

Free and open to the public

Learn about strategies to end breast cancer by January 2020. 

Here's a link to the US Cochrane center at Johns Hopkins University.  It takes you to an online course where you can learn how to evaluate breast cancer research.

More info

National Breast Cancer Coalition president Fran Visco appears in The Daily Beast to talk about advocacy, research and why we need a different approach to end breast cancer.  As usual, she's right.

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.

National Breast Cancer Coalition's latest email message advises the deadline for Representatives to sign the "Dear Colleague" letter for renewed 2013 funding of the DoD Breast Cancer Research Program has been extended to Monday, March 19.  So please call your members today!

Rep. Marcia Fudge is the first Ohio member of Congress to sign the "Dear Colleague" letter!  Congratulations, Rep. Fudge and thanks for your support.