Since 1998, when the Breast Cancer Research Stamp first went on sale, it has raised more than $53 million for breast cancer research. The stamp is called semipostal because it costs more than the price of a first-class stamp, with the additional amount (net) going to the National Institutes of Health (70%) and  the Department of Defense medical research program (30%).

BCA’s position on the stamp is consistent with its stand on all campaigns that raise millions of dollars for breast cancer research. We want to know how the research dollars are being spent; who is determining where the money is going; why there is so little coordination of the research, and why more isn’t being spent on researching the link between breast cancer and the environment.

The Breast Cancer Research Stamp was the first semipostal stamp in United States history. BCA would like to see it make history again by funding the research that leads to true prevention of breast cancer through understanding and eliminating the causes of the disease.

We encourage you to buy the stamps and use them to mail letters to your legislators asking them to consider shifting the funding from the stamps to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Breast Cancer & the Environment Research Centers.