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Breast Cancer Alliance Awards More Than $1 Million

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 24th, 2002

The Breast Cancer Alliance has awarded more than $1 million in grants for 2001 research, early detection, and outreach, and is now the fourth largest nonprofit in the United States dedicated to funding breast cancer research.

Year-end grants were awarded to:

  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine - To develop and analyze a nontoxic therapy for breast cancer using a plant steroid to turn off genes that cause breast cancer and turn on genes that stop or kill breast cancer cells

  • The Breast Cancer Research Foundation - To study predictor factors for tamoxifen responsiveness in women with early stage breast cancer

  • Cancer Care, Inc. - For an...

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