We are Surviving
This blog comes from our friend and ally Dr. Laura Carfang. Have you heard of the national non-profit, Survivingbreastcancer.org?. What started off as a personal blog page of a young breast cancer survivor, has grown into a virtual community providing education, support, and resources to those diagnosed with breast cancer from day one and beyond. They even have their own podcast “Breast Cancer Conversations”. The founder of surviving cancer.org talks about how it all began.
Written by Dr. Laura Carfang
I am NOT Cancer
Today we have a special feature, two poems by a friend of this podcast Sandra Moss who is living with MBC.
“Sandy’s voice in these two poems demonstrates the premise that we all have something to say - and Sandy has generously agreed to share her work with us here..”
Poems by Sandra Moss. Foreword written by Ilene Kaminsky whose blog Cancer Bus is a must-read for poetry lovers
Edited by Victoria Goldberg
Barbara Bigelow: One Tough Unicorn
An addendum to The Searching for Unicorns Pod. Just like Judy Perkins, Barbara Bigelow is a clinical trial success story. As she once put it. "I don’t know of anyone like me, I have had the longest durable response to immunotherapy at Dana Farber. I feel like I’m an anomaly.” In this thuly special blog Barbara tells her own remarkable story.
Written by Barbara Bigelow. Barbara’s quote curtesy of Katherine O’Brien from the article “Metastatic Breast Cancer and the Apparent Triumph of Immunotherapy: Thoughts from a Patient.”
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update from 3 Black Docs
Dr. Karen Winkfield, Dr. Zanetta Lamar, and Dr. Tiffany Avery (3 Black Docs from the podcast with the same name) were among the first guests on our podcast. In this blog read Dr Avery’s response to our questions about the change in healthcare disparities and the issues still facing the underserved communities with the backdrop of the raging pandemic.
Transcribed by Victoria Goldberg