Lorraine Pace, a 51-year-old mother of three from West Islip, is one of them.

Lorraine Pace, who runs the West Islip Breast Cancer Coalition, said discovering the cancer changed her life.

In West Islip, N.Y., Lorraine Pace began mapping breast cancer cases a month after she was diagnosed with the disease in 1992.

In "Transformed by Passion and Politics, Breast Cancer Movement Gains Power," Lorraine Pace was interviewed regarding her role in the nation's first breast cancer mapping project.

"If the information is already published, I'm not sure why you'd publish it again in a different form," said Lorraine Pace of West Islip, N.Y., a committee member and breast cancer survivor.

Two years ago, Lorraine Pace, founding president of the West Islip group, was hired by Stony Brook University Hospital to develop its breast cancer center.

In 1992, after Lorraine Pace of West Islip was diagnosed with breast cancer, she found out she was one of 20 women in her neighborhood with the disease.

"When kids bowl, we fill the lane's gutters with balloon-like bumpers so that the balls stay in the lane," said Lorraine Pace, the general manager.

On the day she learned she had breast cancer, Lorraine Pace began to gather evidence.

"The first study started in my living room," said Lorraine Pace, a breast cancer activist and educator in West Islip.