BCCRF: Taking Action to End Breast Cancer through Advocacy, Research and Education.

Breast Cancer Care & Research Fund’s (BCCRF) mission is to eradicate breast cancer through education, research, and advocacy. Since 1998 BCCRF has educated breast cancer patients, survivors, and the lay public through dissemination of information at lectures, on its website and newsletters, and through one-on-one mentoring. BCCRF members who are National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) Project LEAD graduates are in an ideal position to collaborate with researchers on their grant proposals as well as their funded grants. Many also are peer reviewers for the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program and are advisory board members of the California Breast Cancer Research Program, the Love Research Army, and the California Teachers Study. In terms of Public Policy, BCCRF seeks the commitment of our government—at all levels—to support meaningful research, expand access to quality health care to all, adopt policies and laws that are backed by science and evidence, and to ensure that advocates have a seat at the table where decisions are made.