WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) - The National Breast Cancer Coalition
(NBCC) has set a deadline for finding a cure for breast cancer.
The big day is nine years away, January 1, 2020, and the
coalition has a plan. The NBCC website has a clock ticking down
the years, days, hours, and minutes left until the end of breast
cancer. President of the coalition and a 23-year breast cancer
survivor Fran Visco told WUSA 9NEWS NOW's Andrea Roane, "We're
frustrated by the lack of progress, by what we see as an
organization, an infrastructure in breast cancer that is no
longer focused on the goal of saving lives and ending this
disease." Visco said it is possible to make this goal because of
the wealth of scientific progress made so far. She believes now
we need to use all the knowledge to stop this killer of some
40,000 women in the U.S. and 500,000 women worldwide. She added,
"Most of the infrastructure in breast cancer is focused on a new
treatment, a new drug. Well, really drugs don't make that much
impact on mortality in breas