Education

Workshops from CancerCare at SABCS

Cancercare will be providing three educational workshops from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) this December.  Workshops are available to anyone for free and will be held online.  Topics and registration information follows: Updates from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) on Triple Negative Breast Cancer – Tuesday, December …

Advocacy, Education

Alamo Advocate Program at SABCS

Every year the Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation hosts an Advocate Program in partnership with the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS).  This year, the event will be virtual and applications to attend are open to all advocates.  Program dates are December 8-12, 2020

The program is an excellent compliment to SABCS for advocates.  There are Hot Topic Mentor Sessions where a panel of experts report on the most intriguing topics at SABCS that day.  These programs are highly educational and attract top researchers and physicians to speak each year. They answer questions at the end of each session as well.  

There are numerous other great partnerships at the Alamo Advocate Program including programs with NBCC, AACR, NCI and the FDA.  It’s an intense learning experience and an opportunity to network with advocates and clinicians alike.  We highly encourage you to apply and learn more here.

Education, Research

Free registration for Advocates at the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

There is something incredibly empowering about participating in the world’s largest international conference focused entirely on breast cancer! When I was first introduced to breast cancer advocacy in 2015, I had no scientific training or background and was merely curious to find out as much as I could about the disease that had upended my life 2 years before. After completing the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s Project LEAD, a scientific training program specifically designed for advocates, I felt ready to attend my first medical conference and that happened to be the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Due to the pandemic, this year’s symposium will be held virtually from December 8-11, 2020, and for the first time, registration for patient advocates is free! Even if you are not a science buff, please consider signing up, if only to witness the impressive scope of the latest research developments from thousands of academic and private physicians, researchers and patient advocates, united in the fight against breast cancer.

Learn more here, and you can register here.

— Written by Michele Atlan


Support BCCRF

Support BCCRF with Cookie Good for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

 

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Cookie Good is literally tickled pink about it. During the entire month of October, Cookie Good will be donating a portion of all sales to the Breast Cancer Care & Research Fund (BCCRF) because they are taking action to end breast cancer every …

Advocacy, Training & Education

Register for the Virtual Advocate Leadership Summit & Lobby Day

 

Registration is now open for NBCC’s Virtual Advocate Leadership Summit & Lobby Day, an event dedicated to helping you hone your advocacy skills and sharpen your knowledge of breast cancer. In a series of live webcasts hosted over four weeks, beginning May 19, 2020, you will participate in dynamic, interactive …

Research

AACR’s Annual Meeting will be held virtually

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Every year, researchers and advocates anticipate the American Association of Cancer Researcher’s (AACR) Annual meeting. The AACR has had a longstanding commitment to foster partnerships with cancer survivors and patient advocates. With the escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the AACR has decided to cancel this year’s in-person meeting and instead …

Education, Research

Breast Cancer Program Funds COVID-19 Research

 

As breast cancer patients and survivors, we truly understand the stress, fear and uncertainty brought about by the deadly outbreak of COVID-19. To respond to this exceptional challenge, the California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP), along with other University of California based research grants programs, have decided to allocate $2,000,000 …