How Your Support Fuels the Next Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Research

Researchers around the world are working to find better ways to prevent, detect, and treat breast cancer, and to improve the quality of life of patients and survivors.

Current guidance on preventing and treating breast cancer as well as what might cause it (among other things) has come mainly from information discovered from?research studies. Research studies can range from studies done in the lab to clinical trials done with hundreds of thousands of people. Clinical trials are carefully controlled studies that can gather specific information about certain diseases as well as explore promising new treatments.

The American Cancer Society's research program has played a role in many of the prevention, screening, and treatment advances that save lives from breast cancer today. And, we continue to fund research to help save even more lives in the future.

New kinds of treatments for breast cancer are always being studied. For example, in recent years, several new?targeted drugs?have been approved to treat breast cancer. But more and better treatment options are needed, especially for cancers like triple-negative breast cancer, where chemotherapy is the main option.

That's why your support is so crucial. Your support funds critical breast cancer research and helps develop the next cutting-edge treatments that could save lives. I'm supporting the ACS' Making Strides Against Breast Cancer campaign and asking you to help - https://main.acsevents.org/goto/JoeKing. Every single dollar goes directly to the ACS to fund cancer research, education, advocacy and patient and family services.