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| BCRF E-PRESS FEBRUARY 2011 | |
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A Letter from our President, Myra Biblowit
Report from 33rd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer SymposiumThe 33rd San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), attended by 9,000 physicians, scientists, and advocates from 94 countries, opened with a sobering reminder of the importance of clinical and translational research. The recent loss of healthcare advocate Elizabeth Edwards to breast cancer underscored the reasons why so many people travel to this event from across the globe every year — to learn about new clinical practice so that patients can immediately benefit from these advances and to share innovative technologies and ideas so that researchers can continue to transform treatment with the ultimate objective of curing and preventing breast cancer. Read More... Valentine's Day Gift Ideas! Make your loved one feel special with a gift that gives back.
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"Having the ability to identify all the mutations that are present in a given patient's tumor gives us extremely powerful information that can help to guide individualized courses of treatment, rather than a "one size fits all" approach. It's like lighting up the entire playing field at a ballpark, rather than just one section at a time."
This year, I am proud to report that BCRF is funding grants totaling $33 million to 172 researchers from 12 countries around the world. Those are big dollars and you may ask, what is that investment yielding in 2011? What are the most promising opportunities where our funding can make a material difference in the lives of women, both in surviving the disease and preventing it altogether?
