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17 Years Later, Stage 4 Survivor Is Savoring a Life Well Lived
April 26, 2020
By Katherine Russell Rich, New York Times
Each year on a day in January - the 15th, to be precise - I go to a Web site and post a message to hundreds of women I've never met, saying, essentially, "I'm still here."
Within days, a thunderous chorus comes back, 200 voices, 300. A few of them ask, "How can this be?" Sometimes they begin, "I'm crying." Many answer in kind: "I'm here, too. It's now three years." "Five years." "Three months." "Seven."
Local group spurs cancer research funding
January 19, 2021
By Shantee Woodards, Staff Writer — HometownAnnapolis.com
Dian Corneliussen-James' frustration about the lack of funding for her form of breast cancer led her to contact a researcher in Alabama, more than 800 miles away. The Annapolis resident, who goes by the nickname CJ, was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer to the lung in 2006. "Metastatic" means cancer cells have spread to other parts of the body.
She recalled reading an article in Fortune magazine that said less than 1 percent of the National Cancer Fund money went toward the metastatic form. That led her to contact University of Alabama professor Danny Welch, who was doing his own research on the...
Woman greets New Year without a trace of cancer
January 1, 2021
By Julie M. McKinnon — ToledoBlade.com
For 30-year-old Jenny Sugg, much of 2009 is a blur of hospital stays and treatments for advanced breast cancer, including full brain radiation...
With new treatments, metastatic breast cancer no longer a death sentence
December 30, 2020
By Joanna Broder — Chicago Tribune
As she got the good news almost five years ago, Mertz couldn't help but reflect on how people usually think metastatic breast cancer is an automatic death...
Advances Elusive in the Drive to Cure Cancer
April 23, 2020
By Gina Kolata, New York Times
Forty Years’ War: An Expensive Priority
In 1971, flush with the nation’s success in putting a man on the Moon, President Richard M. Nixon announced a new goal. Cancer would be cured by 1976, the bicentennial.
When 1976 came and went, the date for a cure, or at least substantial progress, kept being put off. It was going to happen by 2000, then by 2015.
Battling Breast Cancer the Second Time Around
December 1, 2020
By Lisa Boccard
In 2003, I was diagnosed a second time with breast cancer. But this time, it was metastatic breast cancer. After eleven years of surviving Stage III breast cancer, I found myself once again fighting for my life...
