Our Petition to Fund Further Research on the Pink Virus

By Vera Viner

Have you ever heard of the mouse mammary tumor virus? If you’ve been an avid reader of this blog, I’m sure you know all about it. New readers, however, may need more explanation. This virus causes breast cancer in mice and approximately 40 percent of human breast cancers contain gene sequences that are alike to that of this mouse retrovirus. The possibility of a human mammary tumor virus is being studied by Drs. Pogo, Etkind, and Melena, who are looking at the biochemical pathways of this potential viral cause of breast cancer.

If we can determine that the mouse mammary tumor virus causes as much as 40 percent of breast cancers, we could focus on creating a vaccine to prevent the disease in women. This could lead to a significant gain for The Pure Cure: the primary prevention of breast cancer. However, we need further funding to determine whether this virus could potentially cause breast cancer in women. This is why we have created a petition on Change.org to implore the Obama administration to further fund this research. If we can determine the cause of this disease, we could create a vaccine that may stop the spread of breast cancer in countless cases. We could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of women around the nation.

The movement toward primary prevention of breast cancer is marching forward. Will you take part in this movement? Please sign our petition and help our voices be heard! The petition can be found here. Thank you for helping us make a difference!