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Melissa Berry, founder of the blog Cancer Fashionista, tells the story of how her cancer diagnosis merged with her career as a fashion/beauty publicist and the people she's met in the meantime. 

Longtime partners Living Beyond Breast Cancer and the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation are teaming up this summer and fall to put triple-negative breast cancer front and center and to help dispel some of the myths associated with the disease. Follow our blog series, TNBC and Me, to read the personal stories of women living with triple-negative breast cancer from July 16 through the end of August. 

In early 2018, LBBC Breast Cancer Helpline volunteer Mary Jennings-Smith had the opportunity to participate as a patient advocate in the filming of a TV commerical for abemaciclib (Verzenio), a CDK 4/6 inhibitor made by Lilly Oncology. 

The Forward4Tobi Foundation as a singular focus: to help breast cancer patients who are struggling financially live a better quality of life. This April, they gave Living Beyond Breast Cancer $50,000 to help women living with metastatic breast cancer attend our Annual Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer in Philadelphia.

Marisa Gefen's first experience with Living Beyond Breast Cancer was a Reach & Raise kick-off event. Her team went on to be one of the top 5 in fundraising.

LBBC resource coordinator and Reach & Raise: Philadelphia assistant yoga instructor Melissa Hamilton tells us why she comes back to Reach & Raise year after year. 

Emily thinks making peace with her changed body will be an ongoing process of showing it — and herself — kindness, on a daily basis.

“Finding others to hold hands with on the journey makes it easier,” Ellen Broglio says

“Life has color once again,” Susan Rahn says

’I’m not going down without a smile on my face” Andy Sealy says