Joe Biden: “we are now in the midst of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the air has been filled with new and sometimes…”

“we are now in the midst of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the air has been filled with new and sometimes confusing statistics, new treatment, new research advances, and ever-present warnings about the seriousness of this dreaded disease. One aspect of this issue that is close to my heart is National Mammography Day--a day to increase awareness of how routine periodic mammography and early diagnosis of breast cancer are responsible for huge increases in the numbers of long-term survivors of this disease. I note parenthetically that my wife started an organization in my State to increase awareness--it is named after her, not me--called the Biden Breast Health Initiative, where she and her group of advisers bring oncology nurses and oncologists into the local high schools throughout the State to make young women in high school aware of breast health examinations and self-examination because the key to survival is early detection. Breast cancer is now an illness not to be feared as a death sentence but to be conquered commonly and routinely.”