FUNDING QUALITY RESEARCH
Donor dollars are directed to high-quality research in all areas of breast cancer including education and prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and after-care supports. Breast cancer research is supported in a range of ways:

• Through regional grant programs administered by our offices in BC/Yukon, Prairies/NWT, Ontario and Atlantic Canada. Our regional grant programs also direct funds to community health initiatives.
• Through our funding partnership with the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance, a unique coalition of public, private and non-profit organizations funding breast cancer research in Canada. Through pooled resources and a rigorous allocation process, CBCRA allocates funding to a broad spectrum of breast cancer research.
• Through our partnership with the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation, which directs funds raised through the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure to research projects based in Quebec. 
• Through Foundation-led research focusing on women’s experiences of cancer care. In some regions, this research has identified key priorities for action. These partnership- building projects take time but result in new funds to the cause and the identification of key priorities based on patients’ needs.

RESEARCH IMPACT
Individuals and organizations who have received research grants from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation are working to:

• Better understand the environmental, lifestyle and genetic links to breast cancer including why the disease occurs, and how the risk of developing breast cancer might be reduced.
• Improve diagnostic techniques and better support women at the time of diagnosis.
• Promote participation in breast screening through regular mammograms and reduce barriers to screening with the goal of having more eligible women participate in organized screening programs.
• Develop more effective treatments that respond to individual needs.
• Explore learning opportunities that will improve the quality of tomorrow’s breast cancer care clinicians and support specialized areas of practice.
• Ease the burden of breast cancer by exploring how the disease affects people’s lives and how their needs can be better met.
• Better understand the biology of breast cancer: how it develops, grows and spreads and what can be done to counter the natural progression of the disease.