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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 96
BY SENATOR COLOMB
A RESOLUTION
To commend Susan G. Komen® Louisiana Affiliates for their efforts to save lives and end
breast cancer in local communities through the delivery of breast cancer education,
screening, treatment and research and to recognize Tuesday, May 3, 2016, as Susan
G. Komen Day at the Louisiana Legislature.
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, beast 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 of them facing a late-stage diagnosis involving fewer treatment options
and lower chances of survival; and
WHEREAS, Susan G. Komen 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 to ensure that the
program continues to provide breast cancer early detection services to women in the state;
and
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WHEREAS, Susan G. Komen Louisiana Affiliates continue their 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 Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend Susan G. Komen Louisiana Affiliates for their unwavering dedication
to the fight against breast cancer and does hereby recognize Tuesday, May 3, 2016, as
Susan G. Komen Day at the Louisiana Legislature.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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