IMPORTANT!!! End breast cancer by 2020
 

The National Breast Cancer Coalition has set a deadline of January 1, 2020, to end breast cancer.

This was the main topic at this year's annual meeting of the NBCC's advocacy training conference in Washington. The conference was attended by breast cancer survivors from around the country, as well as international survivors. On Tuesday, we all headed over to the Capitol to discuss the deadline with our representatives, including funding in 2012 for the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Project. The NBCC is tired of what it considers as small, incremental steps to cure breast cancer and is calling on scientists from all disciplines to brainstorm for a cure.

Here's something about the deadline to end breast cancer by 2020 by Fran Visco. As the president of the NBCC, she is a survivor who at age 39 and a practicing attorney developed breast cancer. At that time her son was only a few months old:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fran-v..._b_855778.html

At the conference, Dr. Slamon spoke, as well as Dr. Love, among other doctors and scientists. I was finally able to thank him personally for his persistence in developing Herceptin, and as you can imagined, he was mobbed for photo shoots by many thankful HER2+ survivors!

Fran Visco, Dr. Love, and others:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUihSI6a2Vc&NR=1

Dr. Slamon in a video about the deadline:

http://www.breastcancerdeadline2020....mon.html#error

Get out the word to your healthcare providers.

Joan

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Joan,
Thank you for this valuable post. These are remarkable ladies. No whining...just pure determination combined with an abundance of courage.

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Joan,
Thank you for posting this. Very inspiring. Setting a deadline. Well, we accomplished that by putting a man on the moon so Breast Cancer is Next and it can't come soon enough for me.

Kris....

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Thanks Joan
I also think we need international cooperation. At present we have fragmented 'bits' of research happening all over the world.It needs pulling together so we can start looking for the needle in a different haystack! In less time science has made huge leaps in managing HIV infection so the death rate has significently reduced. Sometimes it feels that we are not yet even at this stage with bc yet we have been investing billions and researching for much, much longer.
Ellie

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Thanks, Joan. Let it be so for all of us.
Love
Karen

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Here's a link if you want to read more about the NBCC's goals and its progress report:

http://www.breastcancerdeadline2020....s-reports.html

Joan

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Thanks, Joan!
And thanks Debbie for posting the "how we'll do it" link too!
Definitely worth our time to read, AND act on!

After all...who cares more about this than we do?!!
Denise