We Remember

We Remember honors all who died from metastatic breast cancer over the past year—parents, children, spouses and partners. It gives voice to both the grief and the love that endures after each death.

To live with a metastatic diagnosis or to be a caregiver, friend, or loved one of someone with MBC is to inhabit a community of loss. Both demand that you confront and live with the reality of mortality, all the while balancing fear with hope, and profound sorrow with joy.

Produced by Natalia Green, this episode includes memories and stories from the Our MBC Life team and our listeners. We want to thank everyone who submitted a name or a remembrance, and to give a special shout out to the members of the Share MBC support group who volunteered to read names.

We’re very grateful to Abigail Johnston, longtime friend of the podcast for her personal reflection on this past year’s losses. Like us, Abigail has been living with MBC and has been since 2017. She’s well known for her policy and legislation advocacy in the breast cancer community.

We Remember is dedicated to not only those who died this past year, but also to the 116 people who continue to die every day from MBC. In fact, thirty percent of early-stage breast cancer patients will eventually develop MBC, which remains a terminal diagnosis. Nevertheless, according to Metavivor.org, only an estimated 2-5% of the funds raised for breast cancer research are spent on studies of MBC.

While we honor our community each year by reading the names and sharing the stories of those we’ve lost, we must also honor them by building the awareness, advocacy, and funding needed to create a future without MBC. Our MBC Life is committed to realizing that vision.