[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13984-13985]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                     BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

  (Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as we approach 
October to recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
  The statistics are sobering: one in eight women will get breast 
cancer in her lifetime.
  After being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 41, I quickly 
understood the importance of knowing your risk for breast cancer. I 
learned that, as an Ashkenazi Jewish woman, my chances of having the 
BRCA mutation linked to breast cancer were significantly higher.
  That is why in 2009 I introduced the EARLY Act, which equips young

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women with the tools they need to make informed decisions about their 
breast health. Though we have made significant advances on some fronts, 
there is still work to be done. For example, there has been no 
statistically significant improvement in survival rates for the 
metastatic cancer community in the past 20 years.
  We must do more to support those who are affected by this deadly 
disease and do everything we can to eradicate breast cancer once and 
for all.

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