Mission

Founded in 1990, Breast Cancer Action (BCA) was started by women in a San Francisco breast cancer support group who were frustrated by the lack of knowledge about their disease. Led by the late Elenore Pred, they created an organization that would help transform breast cancer from a private medical crisis to a public health emergency. BCA continues this work, and is now a national education and activist organization that challenges assumptions and inspires change to end the breast cancer epidemic. BCA advocates for policy changes in three priority areas: shifting the balance of power at the FDA from the pharmaceutical industry towards the public interest; decreasing involuntary environmental exposures; and creating awareness that it is not just genes, but social injustices that lead to disparities in breast cancer outcomes.