Understanding Bone Metastases: A METAvivor Research Grant
Donations = Metastatic Breast Cancer Research: This is the second in a series of six reports, written by CJ, on the research grants METAvivor has thus far awarded. Grant #3 went to Andrea Mastro, PhD,...
View ArticleTreatment for Brain Mets: A METAvivor Research Grant
Donations = Metastatic Breast Cancer Research: This is the third in a series of six reports on the research grants METAvivor has thus far awarded. Grant awarded to Rahul Jandial, MD, PhD for his...
View ArticleA Message from METAvivor’s New President
Recently, Dian “CJ” Corneliussen-James, co-founder of METAvivor.org, stepped down as President. We will continue to benefit from her passion and commitment as she serves in her new role as Director of...
View ArticlePrevention…Underfunded or Overfunded?
What are those pie charts really telling us? I was recently asked to comment upon a flier of unknown origin that was making the rounds on Facebook. On it were three pink circles, each with one lonely...
View ArticleMedical Emergencies and the Single Girl
or How I Use Medical Identification Jewelry to Keep in Touch When my mother suffered a hemorraghic stroke in August 2008, we could not find her living will for two days. Now my mom had watched her own...
View ArticleMetastatic Breast Cancer Awareness — Making Every Dollar Count
Today is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day (MBCAD) … one day for the roughly 40,000 of us dying each year of the disease. One day for the estimated 73,000 – 86,000 diagnosed annually with our...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Breast Cancer Researchers: Are You Building Stairways to...
October 13th is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day (MBCAD) — one day for the roughly 40,000 Americans dying each year of the disease. One day for the estimated 73,000 – 86,000 diagnosed annually...
View ArticleWhere Are the Numbers?
METAvivor is claiming not just Oct 13th for recognition of metastatic breast cancer; we are claiming 30% of the month, 10 days instead of one, to let our voices be heard! This is the third post in our...
View ArticleThe Importance of Seed Money
I used to wonder just how beneficial our small grants are. Does a $40,000 grant really make a difference? According to big-name researchers like Patricia Steeg, PhD, and Danny Welch, PhD, yes, it does!...
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