Call to Action!

The breast cancer advocacy world is on fire with discussion about opposition to Sen. McCain's (AZ) amendment #1482 to the National Defense Authorization Act. Here is the text :

What is concerning here is that this will do damage to the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Program. If you click on the link you can see all the other medical research that the DOD does. The vision of the DODBCRP from their website is to end breast cancer by funding innovative, high impact research through a partnership of scientist and consumers. One of the consumer advocates from the breast cancer research program is Noreen Fraser, the woman behind Stand Up 2 Cancer.

Because of sequestration the NIH has already had their funding cut; as a breast cancer survivor and individual who is participating in a clinical trial, the research world can not lose yet another source of funding.  There have been too many strides made in treatment methods and I would hate to see it stall because their isn't money to run trials.

Call to Action: go here (putting the link here in case I can't get the widget to work) to send letters to your senators today to ask them to oppose this bill!