Our Name Change
The name Marin Breast Cancer Watch has served us well for the past
decade, but it no longer reflects what we are doing or what we are
setting out to do in the future.
The unacceptably high rates of
breast cancer are not just found in Marin County. The rates are
increasing in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, in the
United States and throughout the world. In response, our programs
and our influence have expanded beyond Marin.
The members of Zero Breast Cancer are committed to eliminating
breast cancer. We are not passively “watching.” Our message is
a call to action:
- A call to resist becoming complacent or accepting of the increasing
rates of breast cancer
- A call for more research on the causes of breast cancer
- A call to do everything we can to prevent and end this life
threatening disease for everyone: women at risk, women with early
breast cancer, with metastatic breast cancer, black, white, tan,
old, young, daughters and granddaughters.
Our new name, Zero Breast Cancer, describes our dream of a world
without breast cancer and recognizes that we cannot live our dreams
without naming them.
Some may think Zero Breast Cancer is an unattainable
goal but this organization has reached for the seemingly impossible
before and accomplished it.
Zero Breast Cancer radiates possibility
and it is within this framework of possibility that we will continue
to work.
As we move into the next decade, the members of Zero Breast Cancer
pledge to:
- Be true to our mission
- Ask and demand answers to the tough breast cancer questions
- Accelerate the exploration of unknown causes of breast
cancer, including environmental factors
- Partner with researchers, with scientists, with health
care providers and policy makers
- Bring the community voice to research, public health and
public policy advocacy
- Be passionate mavericks
- Make Zero Breast Cancer a reality
Zero Breast Cancer invites you to invest in the future by choosing to
become an active part of this incredible organization. Please
join us in making zero breast cancer a reality for the next generation
of women.
— Janice Barlow, Executive Director
Mission Statement
Zero Breast Cancer is a nonprofit organization dedicated
to finding the causes of breast cancer through community participation
in the research process. We focus on identifying environmental
factors and the role they play in the development of breast cancer at
all stages of life and across generations.
Core Principles
- Every community needs their originators and risk-takers—we
are the pioneers of Community-Based Research in the Bay Area.
- We bring together diverse perspectives on health and social issues.
- We focus on how the environment affects breast cancer.
- We accelerate discovery by bringing together experts, resources
and information.
- We actively pursue reducing breast cancer risk for the next generation.
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