When a young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, it touches not only her life, but the entire family. Read more about stories of other breast cancer survivors, metsers, caregivers, friends, and children.
BREAST CANCER WARRIORS
Managing your New Normal with these Social Distancing Ideas
Hey ANGELS, it’s Patricia Fox, the Pink Sistah. This is a care check to see how you all are coping with COVID-19 and social distancing. In addition to social distancing […]
Coping with MBC during the Covid-19 Pandemic
As I enter the second week of the corona virus/covid-19, the world around me is growing more isolated by the day. I am a 42 year old MBC patient in […]
Something is wrong: An unlikely diagnosis
“Something is wrong,” I said to my mom on the phone, standing in front of the bathroom mirror. While my left breast had felt heavy and painful for several weeks, […]
Conquering Breast Cancer – Tiffany’s Story
I was initially diagnosed with breast cancer— invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) on August 23, 2010. I was 26 years old. I was a newlywed, who’d only been married 4 short […]
METSTERS
A Patients Guide to Health Equity, Partnership and Collaboration
Of the more than 200 different types of cancers, breast cancer remains the most common. It is important to note that breast cancer does not affect all men and women […]
Putting the Power in Hands of the Underserved
To recruit Black women in clinical trials, we need to educate communities and say, okay, we know about the Tuskegee project and we can add a lot about the different […]
Being Catapulted into a New Frontier: Moving from Challenge to Catalyst
This video has been brought to you by the #MyLifeIsMyLegacy Campaign “My story with breast cancer can be seen as tragic. But instead, I want people to see it as […]
Jamil Rivers -Putting the Power in the Hands of Black Women
This video has been brought to you by the #MyLifeIsMyLegacy Campaign Jamil Rivers was diagnosed with mBC in 2018 at the age of 39. As a mother of three, caregiver, […]
CHILDREN
Story of Noelle
On February 28, 2006, at 4:45 p.m., when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, I didn’t really understand what was going on. I was only 3 years old. I […]