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<p>Good afternoon. I’m Doctor Susan Blumenthal, Assistant Surgeon
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General and I’m honored to welcome all of you here today. As many as 40
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percent of Americans will develop cancer in their lifetimes. So all of
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us here today have at least one thing in common. Our lives have been
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touched by cancer. Twenty years ago my mother died of breast cancer...
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she was a child when she was diagnosed with the disease. At that time
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you could not say the word cancer out loud nor could we share her
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struggle with others. Much has changed since then. The stigma has been
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shattered, knowledge has been expanded—by harvesting and applying new
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advances from research, which is medicine’s field of dreams. And we now
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have an entire generation of citizens who call themselves cancer
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survivors. And this progress could not have happened without the
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leadership of the people here today. The dedicated and courageous
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Americans who have survived cancer, who are raising awareness about the
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disease and those of you who are working at the laboratory bench, at the
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clinical bedside, in our federal government and in our communities. And
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it couldn’t have happened without leaders like Secretary Donna Shalala
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and President Bill Clinton. The year 1990 marked the beginning of the
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decade in which the alarming inequities women’s health were exposed—the
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lack of women as research subjects in our nation’s clinical
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investigations, the fact that men were considered to be generic humans
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and yet those findings from these studies were extrapolated to guide the
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treatment of women patients. The lack of analysis of data by gender that
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effect both men and women such as heart disease and cancer, the dearth
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of senior women scientists in our country’s federal and research
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establishments—these inequities are now being addressed through the
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Public Health Service Office of Women’s Health working in collaboration
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with all of the agencies in the Public Health Service and other
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departments of the government, and working with consumers, health care
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professionals, and others. There is an old proverb that says that it is
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better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. There has been
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considerable darkness surrounding women’s health issues in the past but
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the light that has been shone on these issues by the dedicated and
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outstanding leadership of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary Donna
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Shalala, consumers, health care professionals, scientists, so many of
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you here today, has brightened the prospects for a healthier future for
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all American women. Most women don’t know that they’re at risk for heart
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disease and in fact, it’s the number one killer of American women, or
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that lung cancer is the leading cancer death for women. They don’t know
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what are the risk factors for breast cancer or how they can prevent this
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disease. Meet Dr Susan Blumenthal, Assistant Surgeon General and Deputy
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Assistant Secretary for Women’s Health, the nation’s top federal doctor
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for women and the host of the Healthy Woman 2000 Television Series.
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There’s a thirst for knowledge about the health issues that effect
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women, whether it’s breast cancer or mental illness, whether it’s better
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to take hormone replacement therapy at menopause, women don’t have any
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single place to turn for cutting edge information.</p>
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