Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

Breast cancer advocates and actors/entertainers Cynthia Nixon, Gabrielle Union, Ricardo Chavira and Vanessa Carlton will join Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Affiliates from across the nation next week for events and activities leading up to the 19^th annual Susan G. Komen National Race for the Cure® on June 7.

 

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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.

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Mrs. Laura Bush joined Susan G. Komen for the Cure® President and CEO Hala Moddelmog and Lic. Margarita Zavala, wife of Mexico's president, March 14 at a ceremony here to initiate the country's involvement in the Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research of the Americas, an initiative that unites experts from the United States of America, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico to affect a measurable decrease in breast cancer incidence and mortality in the Americas.

 

The Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research of the Americas is an expansion of the U.S.-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research launched by Mrs. Laura Bush and Susan G. Komen for the Cure in 2006. Brazil launched the Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research of the Americas in November 2007. Costa Rica is expected to launch its program later this year.

 

Susan G. Komen for the Cure^® announces the launch of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Promise Fund. The Fund will provide grants to non-governmental organizations to develop and implement breast health and breast cancer programs and services in countries experiencing high breast cancer incidence and death rates.

Expanding our network to the far corners of the world
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Promise Fund announcement coincides with International Women's Day and sends a clear message to women around the world that Komen for the Cure is expanding its work to the far corners of the world where women need the most help. With more than 1 million women worldwide receiving a breast cancer diagnosis each year, the organization believes it is critical to increase advocacy for and education about this life-threatening disease. With $1 billion invested in the cause to date, Komen pledged last year to invest another $2 billion in research and community-based programs within the next decade to bring about a dramatic decrease in the incidence of breast cancer and deaths resulting from the disease.

"Over the next 25 years, an estimated 25 million women around the world will be diagnosed with breast cancer-and 10 million could die from the disease," said Komen for the Cure President and CEO Hala Moddelmog. "The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Promise Fund is specifically designed to allow donors-corporate and individual-to help fund targeted projects in specific countries around the world to stem the growing global impact of breast cancer."

Learn more at www.komen.org/globalfund.