Systemic Racism and MBC in Clinical Trials
Patient Advocates, Clinical Trials Process, MBC Allies, Health Disparities, MBC Stories, MBC Patients, Challenges and Barriers Our MBClife Patient Advocates, Clinical Trials Process, MBC Allies, Health Disparities, MBC Stories, MBC Patients, Challenges and Barriers Our MBClife

Systemic Racism and MBC in Clinical Trials

Jumping hurdles to get the treatments you want is the reality for people living with MBC. Add systemic racism into the healthcare mix and it’s clear that more needs to happen, and soon, to create equity and greater diversity in one of the most important tools in the MBC toolbox: clinical trials. In this episode, we check in with Stephanie Walker, who led the BECOME project and spearheads the Black Wo(Men) Speak Symposium, patient advocate and clinical trial participant Rev. Dr. Tawana Davis, and Patient Navigator Valarie Worthy. How does systemic racism affect what Black patients learn about MBC clinical trials? And how can those who need it most break down barriers to the best care?

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Road to a Cure - Dr. Heather Parsons & Dr. Nancy Lin
Novel Treatments, Medical Community, Challenges and Barriers, MBC Research Funding, Diagnosis and Treatment, Entities of Cancer, MBC Imaging and Profiling, Difficult to Treat, Obstacles to Better Outcomes, Patient Reported Outcomes and Out of the Box Treatment Options, Clinical Research Our MBClife Novel Treatments, Medical Community, Challenges and Barriers, MBC Research Funding, Diagnosis and Treatment, Entities of Cancer, MBC Imaging and Profiling, Difficult to Treat, Obstacles to Better Outcomes, Patient Reported Outcomes and Out of the Box Treatment Options, Clinical Research Our MBClife

Road to a Cure - Dr. Heather Parsons & Dr. Nancy Lin

The Road to a Cure series heads to Boston to have Senior Producer and Co-host, Victoria Goldberg and co-host Dr. Paula Jayne speak with Dr. Nancy Lin and Dr. Heather Parsons about the possibilities and the current barriers to considering a cure for HER2+ MBC. Dr. Parsons and Dr. Lin are medical oncologists and professors at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lin is also the Director of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Program and the Associate Chief of the Division of Breast Oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. While an amazing gift, long-term survival among some HER2+ patients can also sometimes bring special challenges. Given the higher prevalence of brain metastases among HER2+ patients, Drs. Lin and Parsons also discuss current research on brain mets, along with areas of promising overall MBC research for each subtype.

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Report back from SABCS
Medical Community, Clinical Research, Lifestyle Research, Diagnosis and Treatment, Updates from Conferences, Entities of Cancer, Novel Treatments, Obstacles to Better Outcomes, Difficult to Treat, MBC Imaging and Profiling Our MBClife Medical Community, Clinical Research, Lifestyle Research, Diagnosis and Treatment, Updates from Conferences, Entities of Cancer, Novel Treatments, Obstacles to Better Outcomes, Difficult to Treat, MBC Imaging and Profiling Our MBClife

Report back from SABCS

Welcome to this bonus episode of Our MBC Life. It feels like a lifetime ago, but just a few weeks ago the world's largest breast cancer conference, the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, was held. Just after the symposium SHARE welcomed Dr. Neil Iyengar from Memorial Sloan Kettering to a webinar where he shared information from SABCS highlighting both early-stage and metastatic research.

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Mets Monday Advocate Spotlight on Katherine O’Brien
Advocacy, Living with MBC, Patient Advocates, MBC Stories, Making Our Best MBC Life, Legacy Our MBClife Advocacy, Living with MBC, Patient Advocates, MBC Stories, Making Our Best MBC Life, Legacy Our MBClife

Mets Monday Advocate Spotlight on Katherine O’Brien

Kicking off Breast Cancer Awareness Month is Katherine O’Brien, a leading force in MBC advocacy. In her interview with Lisa Laudico she talks about the continuing lack of MBC awareness and the MBCA’s new Here ALL Year initiative launching this month.

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