[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 158 (Tuesday, September 30, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S10128]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        NATIONAL MAMMOGRAPHY DAY

  The resolution (S. Res. 698) designating October 17, 2008, as 
``National Mammography Day,'' was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

                              S. Res. 698

       Whereas, according to the American Cancer Society, in 2008, 
     182,460 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer 
     and 40,480 women will die from that disease;
       Whereas it is estimated that about 2,000,000 women were 
     diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1990s, and that in nearly 
     500,000 of those cases the cancer resulted in death;
       Whereas approximately 3,000,000 women in the United States 
     are living with breast cancer, about 2,300,000 have been 
     diagnosed with the disease, and an estimated 1,000,000 do not 
     yet know they have the disease;
       Whereas African-American women suffer a 36 percent greater 
     mortality rate from breast cancer than White women and more 
     than a 100 percent greater mortality rate from breast cancer 
     than women from Hispanic, Asian, and American Indian 
     populations;
       Whereas the risk of breast cancer increases with age, with 
     a woman at age 70 having twice as much of a chance of 
     developing the disease as a woman at age 50;
       Whereas at least 90 percent of the women who get breast 
     cancer have no family history of the disease;
       Whereas mammograms, when operated professionally at a 
     certified facility, can provide safe screening and early 
     detection of breast cancer in many women;
       Whereas mammography is an excellent method for early 
     detection of localized breast cancer, which has a 5-year 
     survival rate of 98 percent;
       Whereas the National Cancer Institute and the American 
     Cancer Society continue to recommend periodic mammograms; and
       Whereas the National Breast Cancer Coalition recommends 
     that each woman and her health care provider make an 
     individual decision about mammography: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) designates October 17, 2008, as ``National Mammography 
     Day''; and
       (2) encourages the people of the United States to observe 
     the day with appropriate programs and activities.

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