Sisters4Prevention Breast Cancer Stories and Survival
Since my diagnosis fourteen years ago, I have been dedicated to researching lifestyle changes and supporting clinical research to achieve the prevention of breast cancer. My goal is to raise awareness of the need for research funding for the primary prevention of women's cancers and to share information to help those facing this journey. My posts are educational and include my journey with bilateral breast cancer and my year of treatment including a double mastectomy and reconstruction. I have been a breast cancer advocate since 2010 and have served on panels at the department of defense breast cancer funding review programs. My website shares all the information I have collected and verified from long term survivors and medical evidence. I am not a medical professional, simply a teacher who hopes to make a difference by sharing information. I presently serve as one of three breast cancer advocates on the pending clinical trial under the direction of Dr. Vincent Tuohy at the Cleveland clinic to prevent the recurrence of triple negative breast cancer, the most lethal form of the disease began in the Fall of in 2021.I am a graduate of the National Breast Cancer Coalition's Project LEAD and have lobbied Congress for additional funds for prevention clinical trials for breast and ovarian cancers. In 2022, I was invited to be a Komen Advocate in Science. Stay tuned...
Sisters4Prevention Breast Cancer Stories and Survival
The Long Journey to a Breast Cancer Vaccine
The Long Journey to a Breast Cancer Vaccine. Why did it take ten years to get the funding for a preventive breast cancer vaccine? I was outraged when I discovered in 2010 at the end of my breast cancer treatment that there was a Doctor in Cleveland, Dr. Vincent Tuohy that had been perfecting a preventive breast cancer vaccine.
I became an advocate for Dr. Tuohy and now serve on the panel for the Phase I Clinical trial to finally bring this vaccine from Bench to Bedside.
Take a look at the long and painful journey to obtain the funding from the federal government and how a 2017 grant will result is a soon to being Phase I Clinical Trial.
Please read all about it on my website: www.Sisters4Prevention. There is link there to the listing on clinicaltrials.gov. We will begin recruiting patients soon so stay tuned. Just follow the link below and click on the button at the top.
https://www.sisters4prevention.com/the-long-road-to-a-breast-cancer-vaccine
This podcast is a remake of a Youtube video that can be found at: https://youtu.be/UV1AvmxLp5c