[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 2, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H1216]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              TRIPLE-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER AWARENESS DAY

  (Mr. MORELLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORELLE. Madam Speaker, six years ago this month, I heard the 
phrase triple-negative breast cancer for the first time in my life. I 
was in the oncologist's office with my newly diagnosed 29-year-old 
daughter, Lauren, a day forever etched in my memory.
  In the weeks that followed, I learned a great deal about this very 
aggressive, rare form of breast cancer. Roughly 12 percent of breast 
cancer survivors are designated as triple-negative.
  It is the only form of breast cancer that doesn't respond to hormone 
therapy, often requiring chemotherapy instead. And it claims the lives 
of thousands of women and men each year. It stole Lauren from our 
family in August of 2017.
  Tomorrow, March 3, is Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Awareness Day. I 
am humbled to sponsor a resolution to call attention to this awful 
disease and to let the thousands of victims of triple-negative breast 
cancer know they are not alone.

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