Cancer is the second leading killer of women in the United States after heart disease.1 While late stage cancer has a high mortality rate, many early breast cancers are curable with timely and appropriate treatments. For example, the five-year survival rate for Stage 0 breast cancer patients is 93% while that for Stage IV patients is only 15%.2 The mortality rate for metastic breast cancer today is the same as it was 40 years ago?3 That is why increased risk assessment and early detection efforts yield the biggest dividends and why we focus our efforts on furthering risk assessment and early detection.
Our foundation dedicates its resources to making sure that the scientific community is working hard on risk assessment and early detection, the only sure ways to defeat breast cancer. We focus on science that helps to eliminate breast cancer deaths. We want women to live a full and complete life even if they are at high risk for contracting breast cancer.
We further differentiate ourselves through our approach to evaluating and funding promising research projects. We act as a funnel for information from the country’s leading research institutions and make sure that projects are unique, not repetitive. Where we see overlap in studies, we encourage researchers to work together and share information and results. By doing so, we help research to move faster and to deliver better results for each dollar spent. Please
donate to breast cancer research here.
We also invite you to learn about breast cancer by reading our
breast cancer facts section and our breast cancer blog. If you or a loved one is new to breast cancer and want to learn about the disease, this is the place to start. The
breast cancer facts section will help you to understand the basic issues surrounding breast cancer and its treatment options. Our
breast cancer blog keeps you informed about new and promising developments in the fight against breast cancer. We will always post the 3 most recent breast cancer blog items on our home page, but the full list of articles can be found on the
Breast Cancer Blog page.
