ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 99
BY REPRESENTATIVE MORENO
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend Susan G. Komen 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 designate Tuesday, May 3, 2016, as Susan G. Komen
Day at the Legislature of Louisiana.
WHEREAS, Susan G. Komen is the world's largest grassroots network of breast
cancer survivors and advocates fighting together to save lives, empower people, ensure
quality care for all, and energize science to find breast cancer cures; and
WHEREAS, except for skin cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed
cancer in women in the United States; and
WHEREAS, among the fifty states, Louisiana ranks the second highest in breast
cancer mortality, despite the fact that the breast cancer incidence rate in Louisiana is lower
than the national average; and
WHEREAS, this year in Louisiana, it is estimated that over three thousand new cases
of breast cancer will be diagnosed in women, and over six hundred 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, approximately 16.3% of Louisiana residents are uninsured and, as a
consequence, many women choose to delay or completely forego the breast cancer
screenings that are a key to surviving this disease; and
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WHEREAS, Susan G. Komen and its Louisiana affiliates honor their mission to save
lives and end breast cancer forever by advocating to preserve full state funding and matching
federal funding to the Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program; full funding of the
Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program will ensure that the program continues to
provide breast cancer early detection services to women in the state; and
WHEREAS, Susan G. Komen 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 who are fighting breast cancer today,
including those in the state of Louisiana.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend Susan G. Komen and its Louisiana affiliates for their unwavering dedication to
fight against breast cancer and does hereby designate Tuesday, May 3, 2016, as Susan G.
Komen Day at the legislature.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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