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Breast Cancer Action Opposes Dr. Janet Woodcock

Dr. Janet Woodcock is the current acting FDA commissioner and is a potential candidate for the permanent position.

We need an FDA leader that will focus on protecting the health and safety of patients and consumers. Dr. Woodcock is not that leader.

Appointing a strong, transparent, and patient-focused leader of the FDA is a critical component of building an administration that cares about people living with breast cancer. 

This is urgent. Dr. Woodcock could be nominated at any moment. 

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As President Biden and Vice President Harris get down to business, we urge them to build an administration that addresses the root causes of breast cancer by:

  • Addressing systemic racism 
  • Increasing transparency and accountability 
  • Focusing on primary prevention 
  • Ensuring better breast cancer treatments 
  • Enacting universal healthcare 

Sign the card to tell Biden and Harris that it’s time to take action and implement policies that get to the root causes of the breast cancer crisis. Join us as we continue to hold our leaders accountable and encourage them to cultivate a world where our lives and communities are not threatened by breast cancer. 

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New Podcast Episode on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

In our latest podcast episode, “The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on Breast Cancer” Breast Cancer Action’s Environmental Health Consultant Heather Sarantis interviews Dr. Barbara Cohn, the lead principal research investigator of the study Linking Neighborhood and Individual Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to Breast Cancer.

This study is being conducted through a partnership with Breast Cancer Action and Child Health and Development Studies (CHDS), and although the research team is in the early stages of analyzing the data, we’ve already seen some incredibly thought-provoking results. 

Listen to the episode now to learn more about ACEs and breast cancer risk,

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BCAction is in the news!

STAT News, a leading health and science publication, recently published an Op-Ed on our #WeCantBePinkd call to action directed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

We’re urging the NCI to publicly share the extensive research linking chemical exposure and breast cancer risk. More than 100 public health and health and advocacy organizations, federal-level leaders, scientists, doctors and public health professionals endorsed our letter calling for this change.

Read the Op-Ed on this work now.

See the Op-Ed on STAT
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    • Mar 3 2021 FDA Commissioner: take action to protect strong leadership By Krystal Redman, DrPH, Executive Director We have an urgent action request for you: contact your legislators today and let them know you strongly oppose Dr. Janet Woodcock for Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... ... read more
    • Mar 1 2021 Take action: demand strong FDA leadership By Jayla Burton, Program Manager Since day one of President Joe Biden taking office, we’ve called on him to make sure his administration makes breast cancer a priority. Appointing a strong Food and Drug Administration (FDA) leader who... ... read more
    • Feb 19 2021 Sign the card, get a sticker By Jayla Burton, Program Officer Let the Biden-Harris team know that ending the breast cancer crisis must be a priority for the administration!   Add your name now and we’ll mail you two Breast Cancer Action... ... read more
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About Breast Cancer Action

Breast Cancer Action is not your average breast cancer organization. We’re fiercely independent and refuse corporate funding from any company that profits from or contributes to breast cancer. That means we can ALWAYS put women’s health first.

We’re focused on achieving health justice for all women living with and at risk of breast cancer. Radical and compassionate, we never shy away from the hard truths. We tell it like it is about breast cancer: 40,000 women die of this devastating disease every year, and we don’t have nearly enough to show for the billions of dollars raised in the name of breast cancer.

BCAction was founded in 1990 by a handful of women who were living with and dying from breast cancer and who demanded answers about their disease. Today, BCAction is a national grassroots organization with members across the country. Together we’re challenging the status quo and working to address and end the breast cancer epidemic.

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