#thinkbeforeyoupink this year!

#thinkbeforeyoupink this year!

• Be aware and help spread next level of Awareness:
• Stage IV (also known as Metastatic) has NO CURE
• 40,000 women in the United State die every year from MBC (Metastatic Breast Cancer/Stage IV
• Clinical Trials save lives but only 2% of Breast Cancer patients in the US participant due to many reasons, here are some, No access to clinical trials, many communities due not have facilities that participate, awareness, fear of trying untested drugs - not true- patients in trials are surveilled more than if in standard of care, and more.

October Awareness - Day 3 - There is NO CURE for Metastatic Breast Cancer

A 2014 survey of more than 2,000 adults found that 72% incorrectly believe that breast cancer in the advanced stages is curable if diagnosed early *Source – Breast Cancer Survey – Sponsored by Pfizer Oncology, April 2014

Not true! There is no cure for Stage IV Breast Cancer. 

October Awareness - Day 2 - #StageIVneedsacure

There are more than 150,000 women in the US living with Metastatic Breast Cancer – Source – National Cancer Institute, May 18, 2017

1 in 8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer

30% of these women will eventually progress of Metastatic Breast Cancer.

40,000 women in the United State die every year from MBC (Metastatic Breast Cancer/Stage IV

Watch Video - How can you get involved? --#MSABCJAX

Stage IV needs a cure. What can you do to help? Get involved! Watch now to learn more!

Watch Video- My Cancer Journey..... So Far

My Cancer Story video is a passion project, learn more about my story, Stage IV, Triple Negative, Clinical Trials, and my mission to help find a cure for breast cancer, by doing my part.

With being positive for BRCA1+, my daughter has a 50/50 chance of having the gene too. I will do anything within my power to ensure that she does not have to face Cancer in her lifetime.

To everyone who made this video possible, words cannot express my gratitude for this gift, that will not be wasted.  I am forever in your debt.

To everyone on my journey, from my doctors, the makers of Parp and Immunotherapy drugs, Clinical Trials, family, friends and strangers who have all become an important part of our lives, you have forever changed my life.

Thank you for watching my story and sharing it with your friends, family and network. This message is so important.

We need to change the focus on Breast Cancer Awareness to focus on finding a CURE for all Stage IV patients.

40,000 women a year die in the United States of this horrible disease, while approximately 150,000 women live and cope with it daily, waiting for a cure before it takes us too.

#stageiv #tnbc #brca1 #breastcancer #lucysworld

Got 2 minutes? Watch my video and Learn more about Stage IV Breast Cancer and My Story

This video is short summary of my Cancer Story.  #StageIV needs more - research, trials and a CURE!

Pink is not a Cure

My passion project for October Awareness Month 2018 is to educate and motivate, get more than just the "awareness" message.

October 1, 2018

• Stage IV (also known as Metastatic) has NO CURE
• MBC (Metastatic Breast Cancer) is cancer that has spread outside the breast to other organs, such as brain, liver, lungs, or brain. These tumors are Breast Cancer that reside in these organs not a different cancer. The cells of the tumors act and look like breast cancer and need to be treated as breast cancer
• When someone has Breast Cancer with "mets" to their liver or brain - it is NOT brain or liver cancer now - it is still Breast Cancer that has spread. This is also Stage IV.