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About the Anastacia Fund at The Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Wed 8 Jul, 2009

Since being diagnosed with breast cancer in January, 2003, singer/songwriter Anastacia has become resolved to channel her energies into raising funds and awareness that will specifically target younger women who are stricken, and who have no family history of the disease.

For this purpose, the Anastacia Fund has been established through The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Anastacia is concerned that women under the age of 40 are not generally targeted for breast cancer screening, self-examination and mammograms, except in situations where there is a family history of breast cancer. She is determined to change these statistics.

As a result of her own experience, Anastacia realized that her doctor's insistence that she have a mammogram actually saved her life! Her resolve to fight will never be broken and she is passionate about how she can help other young women become more in charge of their own health.

In her partnership with The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Anastacia and her fans will help to raise funds for research on breast cancer in younger women--why it happens, how to prevent it, and how to treat and cure it if it does occur.

Click here for more information and to make a donation.

About The Breast Cancer Research Foundation

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation® was founded in 1993 by Evelyn H. Lauder as an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to funding innovative clinical and translational research.

Since its inception, the Foundation has raised $250 million to support clinical and translational research at top universities and academic medical centers worldwide conducting the most advanced and promising breast cancer research that will lead to prevention and a cure in our lifetime.

BCRF is funding 166 scientists across the United States and in Australia, Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, and throughout Europe. BCRF perseveres in directing at least 85 cents of every dollar raised directly to research and awareness programs.

In 2008, the Foundation’s administrative costs were less than 9% of revenues. The Breast Cancer Research Foundation has received Charity Navigator’s highest rating, four stars, for eight consecutive years, thus outperforming over 99% of more than 5,000 evaluated charities.

BCRF is the only breast cancer organization in the U.S. to receive this accolade. In addition, the Foundation received an “A+” rating from the American Institute of Philanthropy.

Visit www.bcrfcure.org or call 1.866.FIND.A.CURE for more information.

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