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LBBC's Director of Outreach, Arin Ahlum Hanson, MPH, spoke with LBBC contributor Robin Warshaw about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee’s work and how LBBC programs are making a difference for young women and others.

When Megan Rizzo was undergoing treatment for breast cancer, her employer terminated her employment – and insurance. She fought back.

Jenny Burkholder contributes a poem born out of her metastatic breast cancer experience and influenced by Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

Kate Hovde shares her decision-making process during important milestones in her breast cancer experience, including how she sought to prevent neuropathy. 

When Taressa Hall experienced undue hardships during Covid which severely delayed her breast cancer treatment and landed her in financial uncertainty, she found another way to make ends meet.

Keneene Lewis is LBBC’s Support Services Coordinator and a dynamic advocate, vlogger, and blogger. In this blog, she writes about a difficult radiation experience to demonstrate why representation matters in breast cancer healthcare teams.   

Robyn Segal was a carefree, service-oriented twenty-five-year-old working in Rwanda when breast cancer upended her life – and her sense of self. It took finding a new mission a few years later to help her understand how much she needed to heal.

Via her de novo metastatic breast cancer experience, Lesley Ferris Yerger learned about the failings in current breast cancer screening processes and decided to take some extraordinary steps – literally and figuratively.

Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment can put stress on every aspect of your being — physical, psychological, professional, financial, and family. Thankfully, oncology social workers are there to help.