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Subject: Contact Your Federal Officials

To:
President Barack Obama
Sen. John Cornyn
Rep. Silvestre Reyes
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison

May 21, 2012

 Coalition for the Reversal of Breast Cancer Mortality in African American Women:

Dear Mr President,
Dear Senators,
Dear Representatives,

the Coalition I represent would like to call your attention upon the following issue:

Of the estimated 6,040 annual deaths in the African American community because of Breast Cancer, up to 3,000 could be prevented. My own mother died of breast cancer and I promised her that I will do something on her behalf before I pass on.

I would be glad to forward the full set of statistical and scientific data that supports our findings. With the CRBCM we are now calling for a formal acknowledgement of this issue and a promise that a 10-year priority program should seek the reversal of this mortality of innocent African American women. Let us invest in saving lives at home. 3,000 African American women will die this year alone and effective action is urgently needed.

The reasons why African American Women are still today missing out on appropriate and timely screening for breast cancer and early intervention have been researched, analyzed and published. No tangible measures, however, have been suggested to bridge the gap between existing resources, the wealth of scientific and socio-economic knowledge and the effective communication with the African American women who keep missing out on this specific type of time sensitive health care.

In the evolving history of breast cancer mortality, interventions by leaders have proven to be effective. Mammograms, the cessation of hormone replacement therapy, the discovery of the BRCA Mutation, all have proven effective in reducing mortality, and led to an adjustment of treatment guidelines. The next main action with the largest impact is to invest in interventions to curb the breast cancer mortality in African American women who take the brunt by their heavy share of reversible mortality.

The present Coalition proposes an action plan to reach out to these women who live outside the traditional healthcare and social safety nets in our nation, so that they can finally benefit from the free breast cancer prevention programs that have been made available since 2000. The Coalition will also push for improved and specific breast cancer screening for this segment of the population and initiate further research into the specificity of the histology of breast cancer in African American women as it had been accomplished for the 1% of women of Ashkenazi Jewish descendence with the BRCA mutation and consequently modified guidelines.

With advances in radiologic detection methods and genetics (the human genome is decoded) it is time to see the decrease of breast cancer mortality in African American women as a reachable and objective goal within 10 years. I am calling to your human side and compassion to pay closer attention to this priority problem.

El Paso , TX

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