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METAvivor stops by Denton, TX to visit BCC founder Gayle Sulik during its Sea to Sea for MBC tour, 2015. METAvivor is a volunteer-led organization run almost exclusively by those living with metastatic (stage 4) breast cancer, or MBC. METAvivor calculated that MBC research receives less than 5 percent of all money raised . . . → Read More: Spotlight: METAvivor 
About every five years, Dr. Susan Love MD, MBA fully revises and updates her comprehensive yet accessible book on breast cancer, Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book. Now in its 6th edition, the book continually reflects ongoing changes in scientific and clinical understandings of breast cancer and relies on the most current information to help readers . . . → Read More: Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book 
Breast Cancer Social Media (#BCSM) Community is a volunteer organization whose mission is to empower those affected by breast cancer through web-based and digital programs that provide evidence-based information in a supportive and compassionate manner. #BCSM began in 2011 as a conversation on twitter. Noticing the lack of organized conversation for people with breast cancer . . . → Read More: Spotlight: #BCSM 
I met Beatriz Figueroa in cyberspace. We started having e-discussions after I learned about her provocative new awareness campaign, “Life is not the same after breast cancer.” She leads a national e-campaign calling for a law to protect the economic rights of cancer patients. I was humbled and inspired by her work because she pushes . . . → Read More: Beatriz Figueroa: Relinking cancer treatments, incapacity to work, the social security system, and patients economic rights, 
The Breast Cancer Fund is an evidence-based organization that actively works to expose and eliminate environmental causes of breast cancer. Well known for collecting, analyzing, and translating the growing body of scientific evidence that links breast cancer and environmental exposures, the group develops public education and advocacy campaigns aimed at reducing breast cancer risk. In . . . → Read More: Spotlight: Breast Cancer Fund 
A recent study by Dr. Steven A. Narod and colleagues provides evidence that for most women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ, DCIS, the condition will not impact life expectancy. It supports a mounting call for research to determine which cases of DCIS would benefit from milder interventions or preventive strategies rather than more aggressive . . . → Read More: Research Brief: Breast Cancer Mortality After a Diagnosis of DCIS 
MET UP, the Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Exchange To Unleash Power, is a smart and feisty grass-roots organization committed to raising awareness of metastatic breast cancer and disrupting the breast cancer status quo with forums and demonstrations of civil disobedience. Taking a page from the history of ACT UP, members of MET UP may organize . . . → Read More: Spotlight: MET UP 
By Melanie Testa For me, beauty ideals and expectations related to the female body are a form of tyranny. I resent that in the face of a lethal disease the conversation turns to hair and wigs, reconstruction and ‘Look Good, Feel Good’ programs. I seek to bolster a new female paradigm. In this paradigm, . . . → Read More: Shirts off, Underwear On: Play Out, Breast Cancer and Gender Expectations 
Isabel Franc is a professional comic creator and author of Alicia en un mundo real [Alice in the real world] – as opposed to Alice in wonderland]. The comic is a critical reflection of the author’s experience of breast cancer. On October, 24th, there will be an experiential workshop with Isabel Franc for women who . . . → Read More: Announcement: Featuring Artists Isabel Franc and Judith Vizcarra 
By Samantha King When I began researching pink ribbon culture sixteen years ago, I understood that the scope of my project had the potential to grow beyond its initial focus on the United States. What I did not imagine was that my efforts to follow the expansive web of corporate and governmental investment in . . . → Read More: Pinkwashing and the Middle East |
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