Breast cancer is a complex disease that occurs in an environmentally complex world. Learn more with our fact sheet.
We Center Primary Prevention
Read why BCAction opposes a pills-based approach to breast cancer prevention with this fact sheet.
Knowledge is Power
See how we separate fact from fiction with our fact sheet, "Breast Cancer Risks: Facts and Myths."
Breast Cancer Resources
Newly diagnosed people, their loved ones, and caregivers can count on us to provide balanced, understandable, compassionate information about breast cancer research and treatment options.
Our Mission
BCAction’s mission is to achieve health justice for all people at risk of and living with breast cancer, by focusing on systemic interventions and by centering people with the furthest relationships to power.
Think Before You Pink
Our work to end this breast cancer challenges "pinkwashing" hypocrisy and pink ribbon culture, which have become the status quo of the breast cancer industry.
WHO WE ARE
EDUCATE. ORGANIZE. TAKE ACTION.
We are radical and compassionate — activists at heart with an independent, rapid-response, watchdog perspective.
BCAction was founded 30+ years ago in San Francisco during two public health crises-the AIDS outbreak and the breast cancer epidemic-and that helped shape its mission and fuel its activism. Early members apprenticed themselves to the AIDS group, ACT UP, and shared many of that group’s tactics, turning their anger into action to push for better treatments, true prevention, and investment in public health.
Our founders saw their disease not as a personal tragedy, but as a larger social justice and public health crisis. They knew that individual changes in behavior weren’t the answer, and pushed for sweeping systemic change instead.
What We've Learned About Breast Cancer from the California Immigrant Community
This fact sheet highlights the results of phase 1 of a collaborative research project titled “California Initiative to Prevent Breast Cancer in Immigrants.”
Posted on May 9, 2024
By KR, Executive Director
There’s good news in the work to stop the breast cancer crisis: we have the solutions.
Now we need the political will to implement them.
And we’re asking you to take action with us today.
We know th [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2024
By Heather Perkins, Deputy Director
Hi again. Yep, this is Heather Perkins with BCAction.
Why am I back in your inbox? Because breast cancer does not stop, and neither do we. The resilient BCAction community is relentlessly [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2024
By Haleemah Atobiloye, Program Manager
In recent weeks, with your support, we have championed initiatives at the intersections of health, environmental, economic, and racial justice.
Here’s what you helped make possible:
We e [...]
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SEE OUR RESOURCES
We provide free educational materials with unbiasedm accessible, science-based analysis of breast cancer issues untangled from free of industry influnce.
We believe that all people deserve access to patient-centered resources to make the best decisions about their care.
Breast Cancer Actions's Think Before You Pink campaign continues to hold the Breast Cancer Industry accountable
The absence of transparency, lack of accountability, and the widespread hypocrisy in the pink ribbon marketing culture exploits a disease that devastates communities, misrepresents who is affected by breast cancer, and excludes and marginalizes women’s diverse lived experiences of the disease
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THANK YOU!
For joining us at BCAction events throughout the year.
Breast Cancer Action hosts member connectors and fundraisers throughout the year. Learn More
IMPACT
We honor diverse voices and lived experiences
"Your work calling out environmental causes of cancer saved my wife's sanity when all doctors (and anyone else) were telling her was - eat right, exercise more, blah, blah. She did all that and got cancer. You did wonders for her mental health. Thanks!"
- Sandy, Roslindale, MA -
BCAction Member since 2005
IMPACT
We honor diverse voices and lived experiences
"I believe in your work to eradicate breast cancer through systemic change strategies."
- Lisa, Oakland, CA -
BCAction Member since 2002
IMPACT
We honor diverse voices and lived experiences
""As a somewhat recent cancer survivor, I was looking to get involved with an organization focused on health justice with a strategy rooted in racial and gender equity. Breast Cancer Action is the organization doing work most aligned with my values, and I'm so grateful to be able to contribute."
- Stacey, Brooklyn, NY -
BCAction Member since 2021
IMPACT
We honor diverse voices and lived experiences
"I am a longtime supporter because I love Breast Cancer Action's radical and evidence-based values."
- Bonnie, Traverse City, MI -
BCAction Member since 1999
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