With great appreciation, we thank Cookie Good, the Los Angeles gourmet bakery, for once again sponsoring a Mother’s Day fundraiser for BCCRF. With the continued support of Melanie and Ross Canter and all of those who participated, we will be launching a new student science and advocacy program. Please stay …
Edited: Thanks to your efforts and those of so many other concerned citizens, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was not repealed this summer. Please continue to reach out to your Congress members and continue to demand that health care be made available to all Americans, regardless of condition. YOUR IMMEDIATE …
Regular use of low-dose baby aspirin reduces the risk of women’s breast cancer, according to the first research to reach such a conclusion. Aspirin is already known to reduce the risk of people having heart disease, colon disease and other conditions. The research involved a subset of patients in the …
This Mother’s Day, the gourmet bakery Cookie Good has created a very special box of cookies for a very special cause. When you purchase a Mother’s Day Cookie Box, a donation will be made to the Breast Cancer Care & Research Fund in honor of your recipient. What the box …
More and more women with a breast cancer diagnosis are advised to have their biopsied tumor tissue analyzed through genomic tests such as Oncotype DX or Mammaprint. In contrast to genetic testing that analyzes a single gene and its role in transmitting certain traits or conditions from parent to child, …
According to what we know now, only 5 to 10% of breast cancers in the United States are linked to an inherited gene mutation. Of those, half are linked to abnormal structural changes in the BRCA1 or the BRCA2 gene, both of whose functions are to repair damaged DNA by …
National Breast Cancer Coalition 2017 Advocate Leadership Summit Washington, DC, from May 20-23, 2017 Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel, Arlington, VA The NBCC Advocate Leadership Summit is a premier training and networking event for serious advocates seeking to take action to end breast cancer. The 2017 Advocate Leadership Summit, …
Sunday, July 9, 2017 – Friday, July 14, 2017 La Jolla, CA at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel The Project LEAD® Institute is a five-day intensive science course for breast cancer advocates covering the basics of cancer biology, genetics, epidemiology, research design and advocacy. The course provides a foundation of …
In an exciting initiative for 2017, Breast Cancer Care and Research Fund (BCCRF) is launching a new program that will focus specifically on metastatic breast cancer. Our first upcoming action is to embed on our website a clinical trial matching tool, specifically designed for metastatic breast cancer patients. Metastatic Trial …
An Open Letter to Breast Cancer Researchers: What you do is extremely important and provides hope to those like me living with metastatic breast cancer. The projects you choose, and the collaborations and advances you make, can be vital to ending the set of diseases known as breast cancer, thereby …
