We've escalated the National Cancer Institute's and Centers for Disease Control's budgets on cancer prevention. And I chose to chair a new, interagency cabinet task force on breast cancer to signal that we're dead serious about getting something done. Two aunts and numerous friends have had breast cancer. It's made me more conscious. We don't have a lot of credibility.
Women feel their issues have been underfunded, underdiagnosed, and undertreated.
I'm the only member of my senior staff that actually read the whole issue. I had to point out to them that you had done an issue on the subject. I like Mother Jones very much. That's a scientific question that requires that we continue to invest in the linkages between the environment and breast cancer. I hope this administration will act firmly on scientific finding, whether popular or not.