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About Us
The mission of The Aurelia & Edith Breast Cancer Foundation (AEBCF) is to advance breast cancer awareness and expand access to breast cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and supportive care in under-resourced countries, beginning in Liberia.
Over the last four decades, breast cancer care has become one of medicine's great success stories. Advances in early detection, improved medications, more targeted therapies, and less radical surgery have fundamentally changed what a breast cancer diagnosis means, and improved outcomes and survival for millions of women.
Yet this progress has not reached everyone. Most women in Liberia still have limited awareness of breast cancer and little access to the screening, diagnostic, and treatment services that can save lives.
The access gap is reflected in the numbers. Breast cancer now claims the lives of more women than any other cancer in Liberia. It is also the most prevalent cancer in the country, accounting for 21 percent of all cancers and almost 34 percent of cancers affecting women.[1]
The regional picture is similarly grim, with an average five-year breast cancer survival rate of only 34 percent in West Africa, the lowest rate in Africa.[2] The contrast with outcomes in higher-resource countries is stark: for example, U.S. five-year survival rates are almost 92 percent.[3]
AEBCF exists to help close that gap by bringing life-saving screening, treatment, and support across the full continuum of breast cancer care in Liberia. The Foundation was born out of a deeply personal journey and an unwavering belief that every woman deserves the opportunity to fight and survive breast cancer, regardless of where she lives.
Because the tragedy is no longer that breast cancer cannot be treated.
The tragedy is that too many women still cannot access the treatment that exists.
[1] Global Cancer Observatory: Cancer Today (Globocan), Liberia 2024 estimates, version 1.0. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization (Globocan 2024). Available from: https://gco.iarc.who.int/today, accessed 4 September 2026.
[2] Five-Year Survival Outcomes for Breast Cancer Patients Across Continental Africa: A Contemporary Review of Literature with Meta Analysis. medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.03.25319952; version posted January 7, 2025.
[3] American Cancer Society. Breast Cancer Facts & Figures 2024–2025. Atlanta: American Cancer Society, Inc. 2024. Available at: cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures/2024/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures-2024.pdf
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