Summertime and MBC

It’s the time of year when I start thinking about cleaning up the back yard, heating the pool, and focusing on summer entertaining. We have a small home, so it’s our season to celebrate outside with friends.

This year I have a new plan – if anyone appears to be drowning in my pool, I’m going to focus on preventing future incidents by teaching everyone on the deck how to swim immediately! After all, the person drowning could be saved and then be hit by a bus, so she’s probably a lost cause. 

It makes sense, right? I mean, it is how we fund cancer research. We don’t focus on saving the dying – we focus on how to “prevent” the disease. Why shouldn’t that be the model how we approach other life-or-death situations? Heart attack? Have everyone within earshot has to change their diet. And pass the bowl of aspirin, stat!

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A QUICK introduction:

• Nearly 100% of breast cancer deaths are a result of metastatic breast cancer (MBC).
• MBC research accounts for roughly 7% of research funds – including prevention of mets.
• Death rates have hardly changed in 30 years.
• Most metastatic research of one origin can help those whose cancer started elsewhere.
• No matter what you read in headlines, we are not even close to chronic disease status, let alone a cure.

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