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“When The TODAY Show Told This Metastatic Breast Cancer Warrior She Wasn’t Bald Enough.” By Jennifer Campisano, Women You Should Know. How could the media continue to trivialize and “pink-ify” our disease, while pushing those of us who will die from it to the sidelines? It started with an article about Joan Lunden, . . . → Read More: When The TODAY Show Told This Metastatic Breast Cancer Warrior She Wasn’t Bald Enough 
“We aim to reconnect breast cancer with the real world, showing that it is not just possible, but necessary to resist dominant discourses. Combining writing and visual art, these stories speak a different language, a language of reality and freedom, a language that is, itself, a subversive act.” — Grazia de . . . → Read More: Demystifying Breast Cancer (BCC Special Issue)
“METAvivor featured on The Balancing Act® on Lifetime®,” Lifetime. The group METAvivor was featured on The Balancing Act® on Lifetime® Television. Lori Marx-Rubiner, President, along with Kelly Lange, Past President and now Secretary/Treasurer and CJ (Dian) Corneliussen-James, Co-Founder/Director of Advocacy and Past President discuss Metastatic (Stage IV) Breast Cancer – or MBC, and how these . . . → Read More: METAvivor featured on The Balancing Act® on Lifetime®
“True October,” By Jody Schoger. Women with Cancer. The issue isn’t whether or not awareness helps but the kind of awareness we need to advocate for, the kind of awareness worth the time you have here on earth. Coping with October is about focus, not on noise or commercialization, but on the very real work . . . → Read More: True October 
Laurie Becklund: Treat me like a statistic and save my life (16:09) Former writer for the L.A. Times Laurie Becklund, Senior Fellow, USC Annenberg, presents at Stanford Medicine X at Stanford University on Sunday, September 7, 2014. She died at age 66 from metastatic breast cancer (the spread of cancer to different parts of . . . → Read More: Laurie Becklund: Treat me like a statistic and save my life
“What Does Breast Cancer Awareness Month Mean To You?” By Lara Huffman, Get Up Swinging Blog. Editorial Note: Lara Huffman used to raise money for the Komen organization, participate in races, walk the miles, even purchase pink products. She did this to honor her mother who had died from metastatic breast cancer and because she . . . → Read More: What Does Breast Cancer Awareness Month Mean To You?
““The First Time I Knew I Had Breasts” – Leading Male Breast Cancer Advocate Passes.” By Kathleen Hoffman, Medivizor. Editorial Note: According to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs people living or working at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina from the 1950s through the 1980s were potentially to drinking water . . . → Read More: Leading Male Breast Cancer Advocate Passes
“Dear Ms. Robach.” By Lori Marx-Rubiner, Regrounding Blog. Editorial Note: President of METAvivor Research and Support Lori Marx-Rubiner writes an open letter to Good Morning America’s news anchor Amy Robach on mammography, overtreatment, “fighting” cancer, and metastatic breast cancer — in other words, the other side of breast cancer. “Dear Ms. Robach, What a journey . . . → Read More: Dear Ms. Robach 
Steve Davenport is the author of two poetry collections: Overpass (Arsenic Lobster/Misty Publications, 2012) and Uncontainable Noise (Pavement Saw Press, 2006). The terrain of Overpass is the Illinois floodplain across the river from St. Louis; the figure who hovers above it all is a woman diagnosed with breast cancer named Overpass Girl. Breast Cancer . . . → Read More: Speaking poetic truths about cancer
“What have we learned about Metastatic Breast Cancer, Charlie Brown?” by Katherine O’Brien, I Hate Breast Cancer Blog. “I am coming up on my fifth year of living with metastatic breast cancer. I am fortunate–I started with a low volume of bone mets and five years later my disease has remained fairly indolent. Not everyone . . . → Read More: What have we learned about Metastatic Breast Cancer, Charlie Brown? |
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