I have just returned from the 8th Annual Conference for Young Women Affected By Breast Cancer, which took place in Jacksonville, FL last weekend. It's a great event sponsored by Living Beyond Breast Cancer and the Young Survival Coalition, and for the first time, it was also sponsored by Komen For the Cure. I was duly in awe of the men and women I was privileged to be around.
I was invited along with Men Against Breast Cancer's Program Director Clint Crews to lead a Partners In Survival...
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