formed by breast cancer survivors to eradicate breast cancer through action and advocacy.
http://www.natlbcc.org/Accomplishments
* Created a nationwide, grassroots advocacy network that consists of more than 600 member organizations and 70,000 individual breast cancer activists.
* Increased annual federal funding for breast cancer research more than 800 percent-from less than $90 million before the Coalition began to more than $800 million in 2003.
* Brought about the development of an unprecedented multi-million dollar breast cancer research project within the Department of Defense that has attracted more than 26,500 research proposals. Total federal funding for this program since its inception in 1992 has reached more than $1.9 billion. Through the Department of Defense program, NBCC worked vigorously to ensure consumer activist participation at the peer-review research table.
* In response to NBCC's 2.6 million signature campaign in 1993, President Clinton met NBCC's demands and committed to a National Action Plan on Breast Cancer, an innovative collaboration of government, science, private industry and consumers.
* Played a pivotal role in the enactment of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act. This law offers enhanced matching funds to states to provide Medicaid coverage for treatment of breast and cervical cancer to low-income women screened and diagnosed through a federal program-expanding access to care for thousands of underserved women.
* Established an Annual Advocacy Training Conference to train women and men from across the country to become informed, active and effective advocates of NBCC's legislative agenda. The annual Lobby Day following the conference allows members to use their newly acquired skills on Capitol Hill.
* Created Project LEAD®, an acclaimed science-based program designed to educate and train breast cancer activists to participate in the breast cancer research processes.
* Developed a program entitled Beyond the Headlines to conduct careful, unbiased analyses of breast cancer information released by the media, the health care industry and others. Through the program, NBCC presents the trained consumer advocate perspective and offers tools for understanding the complexities inherent in breast cancer issues.
* Initiated a Clinical Trials Initiative that educates NBCC members regarding the importance of clinical trials; increases the influence of breast cancer survivors in trial design, access and accrual; and advocates for public policies to encourage access to trials and mandate insurance coverage of participation in qualified trials.
* Launched an Environmental Initiative to further the understanding of breast cancer etiology-particularly the relationship between breast cancer and the environment.
* Created a Quality Care Initiative to describe the core values, or the essential components, of quality breast cancer care, and educate patients and policy-makers about what quality breast cancer care really means. Through this initiative, NBCC created the Guide to Quality Breast Cancer Care, a consumer guidebook that helps those affected by breast cancer to better understand what quality care is, and how to get it.
* Named one of the top 25 most influential groups in national health policy based on a survey of congressional staffers. NBCC is the only grassroots organization-and the only breast cancer group-that made the list.
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