Mission and Goals

MISSION STATEMENT:

“Defining breast cancer as a political issue, the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition challenges all obstacles to the eradication of this disease.”

GOALS:

• Create the public and political will to eradicate breast cancer
• Focus on environmental links to breast cancer that will lead to primary prevention of breast cancer
• Reject the concept of breast cancer as a chronic disease
• Dispel myths and misconceptions about the realities of the breast cancer epidemic
• Challenge the commercialization of breast cancer

We are different from other breast cancer organizations.  We believe that to eradicate breast cancer we must prevent it.  This does not refer to early detection in the form of self breast exams and mammography.  We are trying to find the causes of breast cancer, so that we can prevent every woman and every man from ever getting breast cancer in the first place.