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We will reconvene -- try to reconvene at 10:30.
(Whereupon, at 10:22 a.m. a brief break was
taken.)
DR. MURRAY: I want to thank Patricia Barr for
joining us this morning.
Patricia, I have heard a great deal about you.
Can we provide a microphone for Patricia Barr
to use? We have got one.
CONSUMER PERSPECTIVES ON CURRENT ISSUES
(Slide.)
MS. BARR: It is easy for me to speak strongly
about this topic because I have been working on it for a
long time.
I am an attorney. I come from Vermont. I am
the chair of the Ethics Subcommittee of the National Action
Plan on Biological Resources and I have been for the last
six years a very active member on the National Breast
Cancer Coalition. The Coalition in '93 had a campaign in
which we called for a national partnership, public and
private, to look at key issues in breast cancer and it was
out of that petition campaign, which collected 2.6 million
signatures that we developed the National Action Plan in
Breast Cancer, and then I was lucky enough to be appointed
to do some work with that group.