The Scientist
Date: February 3, 1997
Zora Kramer Brown
Executive Director Breast Cancer Resource Committee
Washington, D.C.
Brown says the idea for the group came to her while she attended a National Cancer Institute forum in early 1989. She recalls, "Speaker after speaker talked about the high incidence of mortality among African American women but then discussed the progress being made against breast cancer among white women."
Just seven years later, Brown believes she is seeing the impact of her group's education and advocacy efforts: "We started a new session of our support group with 29 newly diagnosed women, a third of whom are in their early 30s with cancers that had been diagnosed early. That's a very positive sign."
As her group tries to encourage the scientific community to study breast cancer among African American women, Brown says, "THE SCIENTIST provides an important source of information on what's happening ...
