[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 147 (Tuesday, October 4, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1758-E1759]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      BREAST CANCER DEADLINE 2020

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                          HON. THOMAS E. PETRI

                              of wisconsin

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, October 4, 2011

  Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, today I want to commend the National Breast 
Cancer Coalition, NBCC, for its work to ``change the conversation'' 
about breast cancer through its Breast Cancer Deadline 2020. I have 
signed the Congressional Declaration of Support for this initiative.
  It is estimated that 261,100 women and 1,970 men were diagnosed with 
breast cancer in 2010. In that same year, 39,840 women and 390 men died 
of the disease, which translates to one death every 14 minutes. While 
breast cancer mortality has been dropping, the pace has been much too 
slow: In 1991, 119 women in the U.S. died of breast cancer every day, 
while in 2010 that number was 110.
  The stakes are too high to continue the current trend. Thousands have 
already lost their

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lives to this terrible disease, and sadly thousands more may lose their 
lives in the next decade if more progress is not made quickly. January 
1, 2020, is an ambitious but necessary target if we are to finally end 
the tragedy of breast cancer, so I thank NBCC again for their 
leadership in this effort.

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