Ann Camden*
Patient Advocate
Highlights
- LBBC Helpline Volunteer
- Speaker, 2023 Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer
- LBBC Hear My Voice Advocate 2018
*deceased, 2024
Ann Camden used her 25 years of experience as a public relations executive to help raise her voice and those of others for the metastatic breast cancer community through blogging, speaking, and publishing her work on other platforms.
Ann was on the Patient Advocacy Board of the Lobular Breast Cancer Association, cohosted a Hope at Home MBC room for Inheritance of Hope, and helped manage the NC Casting for Recovery fishing retreats. She was diagnosed in 2009 with ductal cancer and in 2016 with a second primary metastatic lobular cancer diagnosis. She was in active treatment ever since and was fighting leptomeningeal disease as well. She published her blog down-not-out.com on a monthly basis.
Married to a fellow Boilermaker, Ann and her husband had twin 18-year-old daughters, who are seniors in high school and kept her both inspired and exasperated. They live in Raleigh, NC.