Breast Cancer Research Gets More Money

We need to keep doing our part by donating and volunteering our time and getting yearly mammograms and performing monthly self breast exams.
By: Henry Lawrance
 
May 11, 2011 - PRLog -- There is some good news this month about breast cancer research. The Susan G. Komen Foundation has announced $58 million for new research through its 2011 Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grants Program. Some $55 million will go to 80 research projects and another $3 million will fund patient support programs and conferences.
The organization has named two Promise Grants ―multi-million dollar, multi-year grants launched in 2008 designed to get theories out of the lab and to the bedside quickly. One Promise Grant is a $6.5 million grant to the University of California at San Francisco to look at genetic interventions to the immune system to treat triple negative breast cancer ― an aggressive form of the disease more commonly diagnosed in African-American women.  And in St. Louis, a $6.5 million grant was awarded to researchers at Washington University that could lead to a personalized vaccine to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer. Imagine a personalized vaccine that could keep cancer from coming back. Wow!
With these two grants, there are now 16 large grants being funded, with 16 clinical trials either underway or on tap for the coming year.
To date, Susan G. Komen has invested $610 million invested, and that investment is paying off.According to the foundation, the research is getting results: mortality rates have declined by 31 percent in the United States since 1990; 5-year U.S. survival rates are 98 percent for early-stage breast cancers; and today there are more effective treatments for many women with this disease.
Like other cancers, there is still a lot of ground to uncover. Researchers are working hard to figure out how breast cancer forms, how it grows and spreads, how to stop it if it does spread, why some racial or ethnic groups have worse outcomes from the disease, and whether it’s possible to prevent breast cancer entirely.
We need to keep doing our part by donating and volunteering our time and getting yearly mammograms and performing monthly self breast exams.

Cleaning for Cancer  is a NON profit organization which provides free cleaning services to the cancer afflicted people .http://www.cleaningforcancer.org

# # #

Cleaningforcancer.org is a NON profit organization which provides free cleaning services to the cancer afflicted people .
End
Source:Henry Lawrance
Email:***@gmail.com Email Verified
Zip:33431
Tags:Cancer cleaning, Cleaning for cancer
Industry:Health
Location:Basalt - Colorado - United States
Account Email Address Verified     Disclaimer     Report Abuse
Page Updated Last on: May 11, 2011
Trending
Most Viewed
Daily News



Like PRLog?
9K2K1K
Click to Share