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Just as we hope technology will bring us to a cure for breast cancer, technology like this is already helping to facilitate our efforts toward that goal. The Washington, D.C.-based race is the largest of similar races organized in 77 cities across the nation this year to raise funds for research and early detection of breast cancer. The disease strikes one in eight women nationwide, is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer and is the leading killer of women between 34 and 54. Because the survival rate is 93 percent when the disease is confined to the breast, race organizers place a strong emphasis on educating the public that early detection offers women the best hope of survival. About 75 percent of the proceeds go to local breast-cancer programs, with the remaining 25 percent going to local chapters of Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the nation's largest private funder of research dedicated solely to breast cancer.