The Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) strives to develop, implement and study evidence-based, economically feasible, and culturally appropriate "Guidelines for International Breast Health and Cancer Control" for low- and middle-income countries to improve breast health outcomes.

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2008 REPORT from the BREAST HEALTH GLOBAL INITIATIVE (PDF)

Global Summit reception, from left, Leslie Sullivan, BHGI Senior Program Manager, Benjamin O. Anderson, BHGI Chair and Director, Joe Harford, Director, NCI Office of International Affairs, BHGI Executive Committee member, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, the Honorable April Foley, Gabriel N. Hortobágyi, Immediate past president of ASCO, BHGI Executive Committee Chair.

Achieving through International Collaboration

Dr. Benjamin O. Anderson, BHGI Chair and Director: "The BHGI is a vibrant alliance and mix of organizations, partners and individuals who share a passion to improve breast health care for medically underserved women throughout the world. By working together we created a gold standard in clinical guidelines for low- and middle-income countries that can serve other groups to address cancer or other chronic disease. Implementation is our next step in this global goal."

Dr. Gabriel N. Hortobágyi, BHGI Chair, Executive Committee, and Chairman, Professor of Medicine, Chairman, Dept. of Breast Medical Oncology, Div. of Cancer Medicine, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr: "You can't do the work of other people in other countries. I envision BHGI as a think tank that develops tentacles into other organizations and motivates a larger group of people and that group will reach into every corner of the world, and they in turn develop their own answers for breast health care."