GRASP: Guiding Researchers and Advocates to Scientific Partnerships

GRASP: Guiding Researchers and Advocates to Scientific Partnerships

Co-host Natalia Green finds out how Christine Hodgdon and Julia Maués, co-founders of GRASP (Guiding Researchers and Advocates to Scientific Partnerships) saw an opportunity last year to bridge the gap between researchers and MBC advocates in the pursuit of better research connections.

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Male Breast Cancer & Remembering Ryan Keith
 Ricki Fairley and TOUCH, The Black Cancer Alliance

Ricki Fairley and TOUCH, The Black Cancer Alliance

Ricki Fairley, founder of TOUCH, the Black Breast Cancer Alliance, shares her incredible story of how she upended and changed her life and ended her successful marketing career when she was diagnosed Stage 3A Triple Negative Breast Cancer . Ricki talks about the founding of her organization and her overall goal to address Black Breast Cancer as a unique and special disease state, with the overall goal of reducing the mortality rate for Black women.

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Mets Monday Advocate Spotlight on Katherine O’Brien

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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Just Gotta SHARE

Just Gotta SHARE

Join us for our new podcast highlighting the voices of you, our listeners, and guests of the podcast with Just Gotta SHARE moments. In addition, we feature two stand-alone segments: Jersi Baker’s Trailblazer of the Month and an interview with Lara MacNamara, founder of Hope Scarves

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                 Dept. of Defense                               Breast Cancer Research Program

Dept. of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program

Dr. Gayle Vaday, Program Manager of the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs focused on Breast Cancer (BCRP), joins co-hosts Sheila McGlown and Lisa Laudico for a conversation about MBC funding and research and how the funds are distributed. In addition, Sheila McGlown talks about her experience as a consumer reviewer at DoD and her special connection to this critical research funder.

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Metavivor and #LightupMBC

Metavivor and #LightupMBC

Jamil Rivers, the new President of Metavivor, joins the pod to talk about research, health disparities, self-care, and what she sees ahead for the organization. And Laura Inahara shares the story of her best friend Jess Moore and the #LightUpMBC campaign that honors her.

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The Cancer Couch

The Cancer Couch

Tom Scalera talks about what motivates him to carry on the work his wife, Rebecca Timlin-Scalera, started at The Cancer Couch Foundation. He joins Lisa in this episode to talk about the need for research, new treatments, and how Covid has impacted the grief process.

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Racial disparities in healthcare

Racial disparities in healthcare

In this episode, we speak with leading MBC advocates, Sheila McGlown and Chawnte Randall, and with the social media breast cancer leaders, Jasmine Souers and Marissa Thomas of For The Breast Of US about their own experiences and how they advocate for their own treatment and for those in their communities. 

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