IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 796 
Supporting efforts to raise awareness of, improve education on, and encourage 
research on inflammatory breast cancer. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 
Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting efforts to raise awareness of, improve education 
on, and encourage research on inflammatory breast cancer. 
Whereas inflammatory breast cancer is a rare but very ag-
gressive type of breast cancer in which the cancer cells 
block the lymph vessels in the skin of the breast; 
Whereas inflammatory breast cancer accounts for between 1 
and 6 percent of all breast cancer cases in the United 
States; 
Whereas inflammatory breast cancer is more common than 
acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children; 
Whereas inflammatory breast cancer may have environmental 
causes; 
Whereas inflammatory breast cancer is particularly difficult 
to detect because the early signs of breast cancer, such 
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as a breast lump or suspicious area on a routine screen-
ing mammogram, are rarely present in inflammatory 
breast cancer; 
Whereas inflammatory breast cancer tends to affect women 
at a younger age than most breast cancers; 
Whereas Black women are more likely to have inflammatory 
breast cancer than White women; 
Whereas inflammatory breast cancer is more likely to have 
metastasized at the time of diagnosis than noninflam-
matory breast cancer cases; 
Whereas the 5-year survival rate for patients with inflam-
matory breast cancer is between 25 and 50 percent, 
which is significantly lower than the survival rate for pa-
tients with noninflammatory breast cancer; 
Whereas the incidence rate for inflammatory breast cancer is 
on the rise, and the cause of this increase is unknown; 
Whereas organizations such as the Inflammatory Breast Can-
cer Foundation are working to increase awareness of the 
disease in the public and medical communities; 
Whereas the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University 
of Texas is among one of the only facilities in the country 
to have a clinic specifically dedicated to inflammatory 
breast cancer; and 
Whereas many physicians remain unaware of inflammatory 
breast cancer, and diagnosis is frequently delayed due to 
a lack of knowledge in both the lay and medical commu-
nities: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that the Federal Government has a responsi-
bility to— 
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(1) endeavor to raise awareness and improve 
education about inflammatory breast cancer; 
(2) encourage the American Medical Associa-
tion to take steps to immediately increase awareness 
of inflammatory breast cancer among physicians; 
(3) encourage research that will improve treat-
ments for inflammatory breast cancer; and 
(4) continue to consider ways to improve access 
to information on inflammatory breast cancer for 
both doctors and patients. 
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