Clinical Trials: The Patient Perspective Part 1
Clinical Trials Process, Challenges and Barriers, MBC Patients, Medical Community, Essential Knowledge, Obstacles to Better Outcomes, Diagnosis and Treatment, Making Our Best MBC Life, MBC Stories, Difficult to Treat Our MBClife Clinical Trials Process, Challenges and Barriers, MBC Patients, Medical Community, Essential Knowledge, Obstacles to Better Outcomes, Diagnosis and Treatment, Making Our Best MBC Life, MBC Stories, Difficult to Treat Our MBClife

Clinical Trials: The Patient Perspective Part 1

What’s it like to try and find a trial as a patient? What are the challenges and hurdles that have to be overcome? How do we get to a better place? In this episode we hear the perspective of patients and then go to the experts to get some answers. Part 1 of a 2 part series on Clinical Trials.

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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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GRASP: Guiding Researchers and Advocates to Scientific Partnerships
MBC Patients, Patient Advocates, Making Our Best MBC Life, Advocacy, Research, Communication and Relationships, Legacy Our MBClife MBC Patients, Patient Advocates, Making Our Best MBC Life, Advocacy, Research, Communication and Relationships, Legacy Our MBClife

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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Dept. of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program
Advocacy, Patient Advocates, MBC Research Funding, Challenges and Barriers, BC Policies and Legislation Our MBClife Advocacy, Patient Advocates, MBC Research Funding, Challenges and Barriers, BC Policies and Legislation Our MBClife

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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Breast Cancer Research Foundation
MBC Allies, Legislature, Challenges and Barriers, MBC Research Funding, Research, Clinical Research, Clinical Trials Process Our MBClife MBC Allies, Legislature, Challenges and Barriers, MBC Research Funding, Research, Clinical Research, Clinical Trials Process Our MBClife

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Dr. Dorraya El-Ashry, the Chief Scientific Officer for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) joins host Lisa Laudico to talk about the many exciting MBC research initiatives that BCRF is undertaking. Dr. El-Ashry provides an excellent overview of the bright spots and the challenges in MBC research. She has a personal connection to MBC and discusses her own research.

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Nancy U. Lin, MD
Medical Community, Novel Treatments, Essential Knowledge, Diagnosis and Treatment, Challenges and Barriers, Obstacles to Better Outcomes, Clinical Research, Difficult to Treat, MBC Imaging and Profiling, Entities of Cancer Our MBClife Medical Community, Novel Treatments, Essential Knowledge, Diagnosis and Treatment, Challenges and Barriers, Obstacles to Better Outcomes, Clinical Research, Difficult to Treat, MBC Imaging and Profiling, Entities of Cancer Our MBClife

Nancy U. Lin, MD

A conversation with Dr. Nancy Lin, Director of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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