"I was back in the same pre-op area where I’d awaited breast cancer surgery in 2004. Two years prior, a cheery breast cancer survivor had breezed into my pre-op cubicle bearing gifts, offering advice, telling me about numerous local support programs, offering to mentor me throughout my treatment and promising my life would be back to normal within a year. Now my life was forever changed. I would be in treatment the rest of my life, and I would die of the metastatic breast cancer (MBC). I was devastated, frightened and desperately in need of advice; but for metastatic patients the hospital had no program … no volunteer, no mentor, no advice, no gifts … nothing. This was life on the “other” side." Less than 1% of the billions spent on cancer research in the US goes to metastatic breast cancer. Think about that next time you hear some fundraiser claiming to be "for the cure"
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:45:34 +0000
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