October 16, 2009 the IBC Research Foundation in cooperation with the Milburn Foundation awarded a grant to Diane Palmieri, Ph.D. to study how inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) can metastasize to the brain. Dr. Palmieri, who is a National Cancer Institute staff scientist, is working with mouse models to understand how IBC... Read more
You were shopping, sitting on the examining table, waiting in the doctor's office, or maybe getting ready to leave for work when you got the news. The doctor or the nurse said, "The results are back. You have cancer."
And then your mind went blank. You didn't hear another word. Although that moment is vividly... Read more
Ginny Mason was only forty years old when sharp, shooting pains started in her breast. She thought the pains must be part of premenopausal changes. Then she noticed her bra didn't fit right. No it couldn't be swelling; maybe her bra was just old and stretched out. "You try to justify things because you don't want to... Read more
Remember those stereotyped groups from high school? Among them you found the creative types starring in the spring musical and the science types solving equations. Thank goodness most of us figured out pretty quickly after high school that we were much more than the label pasted on us by our peers.
One group I've developed an... Read more
"My friend died of breast cancer. She wouldn't get any treatment. It was that kind that black women get."
I had just met Bea, and in the course of our getting-to-know-each-other chat, she had mentioned that her husband was a one-year survivor of an aggressive cancer. So I shared my story about being an eleven-year... Read more