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TBBCF May 8th Annual Meeting Highlights It was a night of celebrating milestones and looking to the future for the 100 people who attended the 12th annual meeting of the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation May 8, 2018. “It is incredibly moving, inspiring and humbling to be here, but also motivating,” said Dr. Heather Parsons, […]
High School Students Who Care In its effort to continue to educate the public about breast cancer and raise money for valuable research, the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation recently brought its message to Old Saybrook High School. Deb Gillig, the events and promotions coordinator for TBBCF, participated in a student-organized fair of about a […]
TBBCF Honors 27th Mile Club Inductees Pamela Morris Watt Commendation ~ Sandy Maniscalco I think it is fair to say that everyone in this room has been affected by cancer. Many of us have formed circles around those who have gone from cancer patients to survivors supporting them as they moved from diagnosis through treatment […]
College interns help lighten load of volunteers Two students interned this past winter at the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation and discovered that in addition to honing their office skills and earning college credit, they had happened upon an organization with a heart. “It’s a very positive place,” said Michelle Chenail of Plainfield, a student […]
The Hartford Yard Goats couldn’t muster a win April 7, but Pamela Morris Watt scored big for breast cancer awareness when she threw the ceremonial first pitch over home plate at Dunkin’ Donuts Park in Hartford. Pam is a breast cancer survivor and a top fundraiser for the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation. She is […]
Arko Dasgupta, PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Breast cancer is a major killer in the United States and metastases are the primary cause of breast cancer-related deaths. Approximately 30% of breast cancer patients will develop metastases during their lifetime. Few prognostic factors predict metastases as well as the presence of dormant disseminated tumor cells […]
Sheng Sun, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center The majority of breast cancers express hormone receptors, and therapies that antagonize hormonal signaling via these receptors are the most effective treatments for hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer (HR+ MBC). Unfortunately, for the vast majority of patients with hormonal therapy-refractory MBC, the mechanisms of resistance remain poorly […]
Adrienne Gropper Waks, MD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Following many important advances in treating HER2-positive breast cancer over the past two decades, a large majority of patients with non-metastatic HER2-positive tumors are cured with today’s treatments. For this majority of patients who do well in the long-term, we must begin to identify ways to cure HER2-positive breast […]
Aimee Reed is taking a few weeks off from writing a post to her blog. Thanks for reading Aimee’s blog. You can read her early ones here.
“Thoughts While Walking the TBBCF 26.2 Mile Marathon” The first thing that crossed my mind was how just a year ago I made this a goal of walking the full marathon not even knowing if I was going to be alive, or if I would physically be able to walk. I never had to worry […]
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