Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer champions early detection of breast cancer to improve health outcomes for all through innovation, education, equitable access, and targeted advocacy.

Education

Personalization is everywhere. You personalize your Facebook page, your food, your wardrobe, and your phone...but not your breast cancer screening. You should. The most effective way to maximize your chances of finding early, curable breast cancer is to personalize your screening based on your individual risk factors because there is no “one size fits all” for breast cancer screening.

Learn your personal risk factors for breast cancer by using our digital breast health quiz, CheckMate. This free resource is designed to provide you with a list of personalized risk factors, empowering you to start a conversation with your doctor about your breast health.

If you’re interested in learning more about breast health, Brem offers digital and in-person expert-led breast-health education events. Events are often hosted by community organizations, corporate wellness groups, religious institutions, and private homes. The curriculum used for Get Screened: On Time, Every Time is created by experts in early detection and appropriate for anyone looking to learn about their breast health.

Digital Education: Brem teaches breast health awareness through clever, engaging videos that are easily sharable and full of essential content.

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Access

Education is only as good as the tests a woman can access when it comes to breast cancer screening. Most women can get screening mammograms for free. When women have an abnormal screening mammogram or breast cancer symptoms, they need a diagnostic test to determine whether they have breast cancer. For under-resourced women, access to high quality breast care can feel like Mission Impossible. With Brem Foundation’s access programs, Wheels for Women in partnership with Lyft and the B-Fund, we tackle obstacles by offering transportation and funding diagnostic tests at no cost to patients in need.

Advocacy

Brem uses advocacy and public policy to open access to screenings and diagnostics for all women - regardless of socioeconomic background. To maximize efforts, Brem collaborates with non-profit, corporate, and community partners involved in mission-aligned efforts. Brem also supports legislation impacting women’s health and cancer reduction efforts beyond breast cancer. Brem’s policy work began when the organization drafted, and helped pass, the Breast Density Screening and Notification Act of 2018.

Physician Training

The Brem Fellowship is the only breast-imaging fellowship in the country with a community service and public outreach component. In addition to learning how to utilize the most advanced techniques to make rapid, precise diagnoses, Brem Fellows reach out to women in diverse communities to teach them about breast health, screening options and self-advocacy.

Re-Bra Program

The Re-Bra Program is a unique, unprecedented, and easy way for women – including those who have undergone breast surgery - to donate their bras to women who cannot afford them. Every donated bra is dry-cleaned and tagged with the Brem Breast Health Bill of Rights, providing the recipients with valuable breast health information in English and Spanish.

• Over 95% of women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer survive and thrive

• 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime 

• About 85% of women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of the illness

• The number one risk factor for breast cancer is being a woman

• About 80% of young women diagnosed with breast cancer find their own breast abnormality

• About 42,250 women are projected to die from breast cancer in 2024