Young Women With Breast Cancer Act

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TenderIsOurMight
TenderIsOurMight Member Posts: 4,493
edited June 2014 in Young With Breast Cancer

Chris Matthews just had Rep Deborah Wasserman (FL) on Hardball tonight. She is a mom of two young kids who found her cancerous lump, and was set for lumpectomy and radiation, then underwent BRCA gene testing due to her Jewish heritage and discovered she was a carrier, and instead underwent bilateral mastectomy and ovary removal.

She is introducing a Young Women With Breast Cancer Act (defined as < 40) to increase the public education of breast cancer prevalence, ethnicity and genes (she mentioned to Mr. Matthews that in the Jewish population the incidence of carrying a BRCA gene is 1:40) etc...

It's wonderful that women and men area publicly speaking up (Mr. Matthews mentioned recent NYT article on prostate cancer) of their personal struggles with cancer. Especially in Congress.

Otoh, we still need a cure. Money is tight so paradigm or model shifts may be necessary in cancer research. Let's hope some of the best and brightest remain in medicine and shine their light on young researchers/clinicians too.

We could really use a Congressperson to introduce a specific Stage IV Breast Cancer Research Act too, imho. 

Best to you all,

Tender 

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited March 2009

    Hi Tender,

       Good to see you. 

    I watched the Chris Matthews segment with Congresswoman Wasserman twice last night.  What a great piece of legislation she is putting forward for all the young woman out there. I haven't read the legislation yet, but sincerely hope it passes.

    I loved Wasserman before I knew she had battled b/c and found her to be strong, sensible and well-informed.  Amazing she underwent 7 surgeries last year and continued campaigning, working and caring for her three children.

    Hopefully, Wasserman might be able to work towards finding someone to introduce legislation for Stage IV as well.

    Best to you too,

    Bren

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  • OneBadBoob
    OneBadBoob Member Posts: 1,386
    edited March 2009

    Here is a link to the Action Alert on the Komen Site where you can easily fill our a form and have your opinion and support of this bill forwarded on to your Representatives.

    It only takes a moment.  Please help and fill it out.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2009

    She was on GMA also.  Good for her! 

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