The State of Research for Metastatic Breast Cancer
Approximately 2 percent of cancer research focuses on metastatic cancer of all different types. Research for metastatic breast cancer receives about 5 percent of that 2 percent. Since metastatic breast cancer affects 30 percent of all breast cancer patients, Metavivor has proposed that metastatic breast cancer research receive 30 percent of the breast cancer research […]
Bringing Metastatic Breast Cancer Out of the Shadows
Today is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. It is a day that patients fought to get for many years , only one day during a month of awareness. If you read yesterday’s post, you have a better understanding of what metastatic (or stage 4) breast cancer is. We thought today we would focus on why […]
The Language of a “Survivor”
Originally published April 29, 2010 According to the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS), a cancer survivor is “anyone with a history of cancer, from the time of diagnosis and for the remainder of life, whether that is days or decades”. I recently learned that the phrase “cancer survivor” was first used by a physician, […]
The Language of a “Survivor”
According to the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS), a cancer survivor is “anyone with a history of cancer, from the time of diagnosis and for the remainder of life, whether that is days or decades”. I recently learned that the phrase “cancer survivor” was first used by a physician, Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, in a […]
