Some runners sign up to support friends or family who are battling the disease, while others run in memory of women who didn't survive. The runners and walkers included 900 breast cancer survivors, Ms. Rose said. The race is a great opportunity to stand up and be counted in the fight against this disease. A quarter of money raised by the race goes to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the largest private provider of funds dedicated to breast cancer research. The rest is used to help Michigan women through breast cancer awareness and early detection programs, and through testing for low-income women whose mammograms are abnormal.
Tamoxifen already is used widely to prevent the spread or return of breast cancer.
An estimated 180,200 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and 43,900 will die, show figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Detroit Free Press and may not be republished without permission.