Mission: Discovery, the primary focus of the Breast Health & Healing Foundation, is similar in concept to the Space Program introduced by President Kennedy in 1961. In his Inaugural Address, President Kennedy set an ambitious goal for the nation, to send a man to the moon and to bring him safely home before the end of the decade. NASA and the entire country stood shoulder to shoulder to realize this goal, a national goal that was achieved on July 20, 1969.
In the spirit of JFK, the Breast Health & Healing Foundation has set its goal: to discover the causes of breast cancer and to use this knowledge to prevent the disease. Shoulder to shoulder, we will obtain the necessary information about the causes of breast cancer, and together we will eradicate breast cancer through primary prevention.
The work of Mission: Discovery occurs on several fronts in the war on breast cancer. First, we use the current knowledge about the risk factors for breast cancer to educate women about the things that they can do now to reduce their risk of getting the disease. The book, Why Me? Understanding the Causes of Breast Cancer will be available for sale on the website later this year. It contains critical information that allows women to make wise and healthy choices to reduce their risk of breast cancer.
The Breast Health & Healing Foundation has identified researchers who are currently involved in the discovery of the causes of breast cancer. Donations to the Foundation will be used to support this research and to encourage others to join them in their work.
The Breast Health & Healing Foundation has also identified additional research opportunities that appear promising, including a human mammary tumor virus, the epigenetic effects of exercise on breast cancer risk, and the prevalence of human antibodies to mouse mammary tumor virus.
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