Breast cancer is a global health issue.

Worldwide, breast cancer accounts for nearly a quarter of all cancers in women.

The DoD Breast Cancer Research Program challenges the scientific community to design research that will address the urgency of ending breast cancer.

To achieve this goal, the BCRP is focusing its mission to support research on the major problems in breast cancer that remain unanswered.

Investigators applying to the BCRP are asked to address the following overarching challenges:

• Prevent breast cancer.
• Identify what makes the breast susceptible to cancer development.
• Determine why some, but not all women get breast cancer.
• Conquer the problems of over-diagnosis and over-treatment.
• Revolutionize treatment regimens by replacing interventions that have life-threatening toxicities, with ones that are safe and effective.
• Identify what drives breast cancer growth, and determine how to stop it.
• Distinguish aggressive breast cancer from indolent cancers.
• Determine why and how breast cancer cells lay dormant for years and then re-emerge, and determine how to prevent this recurrence.
• Identify why some breast cancers become life-threatening metastases.
• And eliminate the mortality associated with metastatic cancer.

We need bright minds with innovative ideas. Submit a proposal that addresses one of these overarching challenges, and work with the BCRP to end breast cancer.

DoD Breast Cancer Research Program

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https://CDMRP.HEALTH.MIL/bcrp