Breast Cancer Research Program (CDMRP)

The programme's stated vision is "a world without breast cancer", and its mission is to end breast cancer for service members and their families, veterans and the general public by funding innovative, high-impact research through a partnership of scientists and consumers. Its overarching challenges are to prevent breast cancer, identify determinants of initiation, risk or susceptibility, distinguish deadly from non-deadly breast cancers, conquer overdiagnosis and overtreatment, identify what drives growth and how to stop it, explain why some breast cancers become metastatic, find why and how breast cancer cells lie dormant for years and re-emerge, replace treatment regimens with ones that are more effective and less toxic and improve survival, and eliminate the mortality of metastatic breast cancer.

The page lists congressional appropriations of $4.521 billion for FY92 to FY25 and $145 million for FY26, and 7,428 awards made in FY92 to FY24. It also lists Breast Cancer Centers of Excellence awards and the Breast Cancer Research Stamp, with $28.8 million received to date.