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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 39
BY REPRESENTATIVE KLECKLEY
A RESOLUTION
To commend Susan G. Komen for the Cure and its Louisiana affiliates for improving the
quality of life in local communities through the delivery of breast cancer education,
screening, treatment, and research and to recognize Tuesday, April 17, 2012, as
Komen for the Cure Day at the Legislature of Louisiana.
WHEREAS, Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the world's largest grassroots network
of breast cancer survivors and advocates fighting together to save lives, empowering people,
ensuring quality care for all, and energizing science to find breast cancer cures; and
WHEREAS, among the fifty states and the District of Columbia, Louisiana has the
second highest rate of breast cancer mortality, despite the fact that the breast cancer
incidence rate in Louisiana is lower than the national average; and
WHEREAS, in Louisiana this year, an estimated three thousand three hundred twenty
new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women, and an estimated six
hundred sixty Louisiana women will die of the disease, many of them facing a late-stage
diagnosis involving fewer treatment options and lower chances of survival; and
WHEREAS, in Louisiana, one in five women aged forty to sixty-four is uninsured
and, as a consequence, often faces the decision of whether to delay or completely forego the
breast cancer screenings that are a key component of surviving this disease; and
WHEREAS, Susan G. Komen for the Cure supports and urges full funding of the
Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program to provide breast health screening to
uninsured and underinsured citizens; and
WHEREAS, Susan G. Komen for the Cure continues its mission locally, nationally,
and globally to identify the cures that will end breast cancer as a life-threatening disease and
to provide community-based support to the women and men fighting breast cancer today,
including those in the state of Louisiana. ENROLLEDHR NO. 39
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend Susan G. Komen for the Cure and its
Louisiana affiliates for its unwavering dedication to the fight against breast cancer and does
hereby recognize Tuesday, April 17, 2012, as Komen for the Cure Day at the legislature.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES