[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 68 (Thursday, May 8, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5944-S5945]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CELEBRATING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE REVLON RUN/WALK FOR WOMEN IN 
                              LOS ANGELES

 Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, today I rise to recognize the 
efforts of the more than 60,000 men, women, and children who will be 
meeting at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at Exposition Park on 
Saturday, May 10, 2003, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Revlon 
Run/Walk and to raise funds for women's cancers. The largest 5K event 
in the Nation, the Revlon Run/Walk, presented by the Entertainment 
Industry Foundation, EFT, and cochaired by Ellen Barkin, Ronald O. 
Perelman and Lilly Tartikoff, will raise funds to target research that 
will contribute to the development of important new therapies, such as 
Herceptin to treat breast cancer, the first in the wave of new targeted 
cancer treatments.
  To date, the Revlon Run/Walk in Los Angeles and New York has raised 
more than $27 million since its beginning in Los Angeles a decade ago. 
The Revlon Run/Walk in Los Angeles will be hosted by Debra Messing and 
Billy Crystal along with Revlon spokespersons Karen Duffy and Jaime 
King.
  The Los Angeles area beneficiaries for 2003 include: The Revlon/UCLA 
Women's Cancer Research Program, National Women's Cancer Research 
Alliance (NWCRA), the Wellness Community, WIN Against Breast Cancer, 
USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital Ovarian & Breast 
Cancer Program, the UCLA Digital Mammography Program, T.H.E., The Help 
Everyone, Clinic, Inc., Los Angeles Breast Cancer Alliance, John Wayne 
Cancer Institute, Breast Cancer Research Program, Women of Color Breast 
Cancer Survivors Support Program, Team Survivor Los Angeles, Providence 
Saint Joseph Foundation, Art of Healing--Women's Health, Gilda Radner 
Ovarian and Breast Cancer Detection Program at Cedars Sinai Medical 
Center, Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. (ACPHCV), and weSpark.
  Today, 1 in 27 American women will die of breast cancer. According to 
the American Cancer Society, every 2.5 minutes a woman is diagnosed 
with breast cancer, every 13 minutes a woman dies of breast cancer, and 
this year alone 54,100 women will lose their lives to breast and 
ovarian cancer. For a woman with ovarian cancer today, there is still 
no method of early detection.
  In my home State of California, the American Cancer Society is 
predicting this year that more than 26,300 women will be diagnosed with 
breast and other women cancers and more than 5,500 grandmothers, 
mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, cousins, and friends will die.
  The facts serve as a reminder that there is still so much to be done. 
Mammograms are a proven method of early detection. Unfortunately a 
large portion of women are not getting screened.
  The continuing fight requires many levels of commitment and I want to 
congratulate all those individuals involved in this worthwhile event as 
they celebrate both Mother's Day and the 10-year anniversary of the 
Revlon Run/Walk. The thousands running in Los

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Angeles represent the millions hoping for an end to cancer. I, too, 
look forward to a day without cancer.

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