Breast Cancer
Vision - A world without breast cancer
The BCRP challenges the scientific community to design research that will address the urgency of ending breast cancer. Specifically, the BCRP seeks to accelerate high-impact research with clinical relevance, encourage innovation and stimulate creativity, and facilitate productive collaborations.
The Breast Cancer Landscape (607kb)
This overview describes what is currently known about the most pertinent topics that are consistent with the BCRP's mission of ending breast cancer. Applicants are strongly urged to read and consider The Breast Cancer Landscape before preparing their applications.
BCRP Overarching Challenges
Considering the current breast cancer landscape and the BCRP's mission to end breast cancer, the BCRP seeks applications that address the following overarching challenges:
- Prevent breast cancer (primary prevention)
- Identify determinants of breast cancer initiation, risk, or susceptibility
- Distinguish deadly from non-deadly breast cancers
- Conquer the problems of overdiagnosis and overtreatment
- Identify what drives breast cancer growth; determine how to stop it
- Identify why some breast cancers become metastatic
- Determine why/how breast cancer cells lie dormant for years and then re-emerge; determine how to prevent lethal recurrence
- Revolutionize treatment regimens by replacing them with ones that are more effective, less toxic, and impact survival
- Eliminate the mortality associated with metastatic breast cancer
Congressional Appropriations
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$3.511 billion
FY92-FY18 -
$130 million
FY19
Funding
Summary
- 6,828 Awards in
FY92-17 - Recent Applications Recommended for Funding
Programmatic
Panels
Peer Review Participants
Breast Cancer Research Semipostal
- $24.24 million received to date
- Breast Cancer Stamp Program Booklet
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Last updated Monday, February 11, 2019