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Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer
If you or someone you love has just heard the words “breast cancer,” you’re not alone. After skin cancer, it’s the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, and men can get it too. Behind every one of those diagnoses is a person figuring out what comes next. Here, patients share their stories in their own words: how they found out, the treatment decisions they faced, what helped, and what they wish they’d known. Find someone whose path looks like yours.
Patient Spotlight
I learned early on to fight for myself. Because not only was I fighting for myself, I was also fighting for my family, to be able to spend more time with my family, my kids, my friends, and my loved ones. It’s what drives me today.
Lesley Glenn
Metastatic Breast Cancer Patient Advocate
Patient Stories
Hear from people living with breast cancer
Real experiences with diagnosis, treatment choices, side effects, and life beyond breast cancer… in their own words.
Free Toolkit
Your Free Metastatic Breast Cancer Biomarker Toolkit
Questions to ask your care team, plus what to know about getting tested at progression. Printable trackers and notes to bring to every appointment, so you can make sure your biomarkers are guiding your treatment.
Breast Cancer 101
Understanding your diagnosis
Carcinomas are the most common cases of breast cancer. But there are less common types, including Paget’s disease, inflammatory, and connective tissue.
Patients share their breast cancer stories on:
- Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) – a form of breast cancer where abnormal cells begin growing in the lining of the milk ducts and invade breast tissue beyond the duct walls.
- Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) – a noninvasive form of breast cancer where cancer cells start in the lining of a breast duct and have not spread to surrounding tissues
- IDC & DCIS – a combination of both forms of breast cancer.
- Previvor BRCA2 – A mutation that indicates a high risk of breast cancer.
Expert Voices
Breast cancer treatment options
Treatments for breast cancer, including metastatic breast cancer, have seen incredible advancements in recent years. Breast cancer expert Dr. Neil Vasan and breast cancer patient and advocate Abigail Johnston discuss key updates from the largest breast cancer meeting in the world, the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. They tackle the most promising treatments that may be close to FDA approval and how getting tests to understand patients’ disease can completely change their lives. Learn more and watch the replay here.
Breast cancer is such a fast-moving field… More often than not, how breast cancer was treated in your loved one five years ago might be radically different. It might not even be an option now because there are newer and better things.
Dr. Neil Vasan
Living with Cancer
Life beyond diagnosis
More information about breast cancer
Learn more about breast cancer at Project Life. Project Life is a virtual wellness house offering community, mentorship, and wellness programming that is free to all.