Saturday, July 23, 2005

NIEHS Alert - People contact US Congress



H.R.2231 Breast Cancer & Environmental Research Act

Looks like we really have to push again this year. Call your representatives and tell them to sign on to this bill. Please ask your friends, relatives, and co-workers to do so, too.

Please do ASAP: Call the following representatives and ask them to sign onto H.R. 2231.

Title: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.

Who needs to be called?

  • Paul Ryan (R-1) Ph: 202-225-3031, FAX: 202-225-3393
  • David Obey (R-7) Ph: 202-225-3365, FAX: 202-225-3250
  • Mark Green (R-8) Ph: 202-225-5665, FAX: 202-225-5729
  • F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-05) Ph: (202) 225-5101, Toll-Free1-800-242-1119

Photo Info: A snapshot from a photo booth from a drug store when we were kids - ha! little did we know what was in store for us and breast cancer. Nancy my late sister is on the left, I am on the right. The next photo is from:

http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/BREAST/BRCA024.html and is described as:

This is positive immunoperoxidase staining for C-erb B-2 (HER2-neu) in a breast carcinoma. Note the membranous staining of the neoplastic cells. There is a correlation between HER2 positivity and high nuclear grade and aneuploidy.

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