Reducing breast cancer

Komen’s bold goal is to reduce breast-cancer deaths by 50 percent by 2026. How will Komen accomplish this? Through its research imperative and providing access to quality care for all women.

THE RESEARCH IMPERATIVE

We will find new treatments for the most aggressive forms of breast cancer that kill 40,000 people in the U.S. each year. Our focus is on the following:

Understanding and finding more effective treatments for metastatic disease — cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, also known as Stage 4.

Developing better therapies for aggressive forms of breast cancer that become resistant to treatment over time, such as luminal B (HR+/HER2+), triple-negative and inflammatory breast cancers.

Leveraging the use of transformative, next-generation technology to detect breast cancer at its very earliest stage, before it has spread or returned, and when treatment is most effective.

Our commitment to the most promising, innovative and meaningful research will never waver. We will not stop until every woman and man with breast cancer can be told: “There is hope — and help — for you.”

QUALITY CARE FOR ALL

We will step up our fight to ensure that all people — especially the most vulnerable among us — have access to and utilize high-quality breast-cancer care.

Komen has always believed that where you live should not determine whether you live, and for decades, Komen and its network of affiliates have worked to level the playing field for medically underserved populations.

Armed with $27 million in funding, Komen is launching the African-American Health Equity Initiative to end disparities in breast-cancer outcomes in the African-American community.The initiative’s initial focus will be in the 10 American cities where the disparities are greatest, where Komen has been working side by side with civic, health, government and faith leaders to identify and implement the interventions most relevant to each community, with the goal to reduce the gap between cancer in African-American and white women in these cities by 25 percent within five years of beginning work in each city.

Over time, we will take what we learn through the African-American Health Equity Initiative to more cities and towns across the U.S.

Our commitment to women and men everywhere will never change.We will always fight for health equity for every woman, man and family we serve.