I’ve seen some interesting articles lately on the web regarding breast cancer research. Here are a few highlights I wanted to share:
The big news this week is the announcement of this year’s slate of National Research Grants by Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
We are awarding more than $100 million in research grants, representing the largest single-year investment in research in our 26-year history and a 30 percent increase over last year’s award total of $77 million. The 2008 grants slate moves us closer to accomplishing our goal of investing another $2 billion in breast cancer research and community health programs by 2017.With this year’s slate of 143 grants, Komen for the Cure has fully activated new funding mechanisms designed to speed the discovery and delivery of the cures for breast cancer. The 2008 slate funds projects designed to promote breast cancer research collaboration and cost efficiencies, arrive at reliable and replicable research results more quickly, motivate bright young investigators to commit to breast cancer research careers and keep career researchers intensely focused on breast cancer.
And in other news…
from Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today An experimental vaccine that triggers the immune system to fight HER 2-positive breast cancer could reduce the risk of death for most patients, according to a study presented Sunday at an American Association for Cancer Research meeting in San Diego, Reuters reports.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) announced on a recent episode of the “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” a proposal that would provide an additional $300 million in annual federal funds for breast cancer research, the AP/Contra Costa Times reports.
