We raise and distribute funds for research, screening, education, and treatment of breast cancer. We work in concert with individuals and corporate partners to raise awareness about cancer, and to solicit community involvement in the race to cure cancer. Our volunteers number more than 20,000. My point is not to grandstand, but rather to underscore the breadth of the Komen Foundation and the extent of its reach into American institutions, corporations, and communities. We believe that this breadth is of prime value when discussing cancer.
Cancers are medical issues of paramount concern and research topics of extraordinary urgency.
It reaches each individual patient, survivor, family member, and the communities they reside in, their places of worship, their workplaces. Accordingly, those charged with the critical task of setting and refining public policy on cancer should ensure that the entire spectrum is clearly in view as decisions are made. At the Komen Foundation, we set our priorities with these questions in mind. We offer our assistance and cooperation with your role to set and refine national policies that affect all persons touched by all cancers. At the Komen Foundation, we set our priorities with these questions in mind.