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Breast cancer continues to be the second leading
cause of death in women in Kentucky.
And I suppose that in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
there is not one individual who has not been affected by this.
They’ve either had a mother, a daughter, a grandmother, a sister, a best friend,
a husband, or a son who have been affected by breast cancer.
But the Commonwealth of Kentucky is so fortunate that we have
the University of Louisville, and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center;
and the Kentucky cancer program that are working every
single day to battle for the lives of our Kentucky people.
This year, the Cancer center celebrates its 30th anniversary,
of providing Kentuckians with world class cancer treatment,
research, and support.
And as so many of us know,
breast cancer is a disease that affects not only the people who battle it,
but so many people who support them and love them, and are around them.
Truly the reach of this disease is huge, and that so many of you are here today,
to be with us,
showing your solidarity and your support for all the things we are
collectively trying to do to fight this disease,
is really marvelous for us to see.
If you look at our scientist, and what’s going on the laboratories and the
C.T.R.B and the clinical laboratory up on the second and third floor,
its state of the art in terms of developing new treatments,
developing new diagnostics, it is,
I think as good as any cancer center in the country.
So were very proud of what’s going on,
but the most important thing is providing care for our patients and
helping Kentucky deal with the burden of pain
and suffering that goes with cancer.
And I am very happy to say that the breast cancer incidents,
the number of people in Kentucky who get breast cancer,
is below the national average.
And that is in large part of because of Connie S’s program,
the Kentucky Cancer Program,
and all of the work that’s being done to help educate
women about the importance of early detection.