In a move to court female voters, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton said that if she captures the White House, she would increase funding for breast cancer research by $300 million each year.

She announced her plan today on the "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," promising to bolster the budgets of the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute and the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.

"I know your mom is a survivor, and we've lost my incredible mother-in-law to breast cancer during Bill's first term and first year in office, and I've just been really committed," Clinton said on the show. "I've had so many friends, and we all know people who survived and people who haven't. And I just think we should set a goal of curing breast cancer within the next decade."

Clinton's plan calls for the elimination of Medicare co-pays for mammograms and guarantees breast and cervical cancer treatment to low-income women and would create a Racial Disparities Research Project to eliminate the treatment gap between white women and black and Hispanic women.

— Carrie Sheffield, Web editor, The Washington Times