Navigating risk of recurrence and quality of life

Virginia F. Borges, MD, MMSc

Deputy Head, Division of Medical Oncology Director, Breast Cancer Research Program & Young Women’s Breast Cancer Translational Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Virginia F. Borges, MD, MMSc, founded and directs the Young Women’s Breast Cancer Clinic at the University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center. The YWBCC of Colorado covers the unique issues of young women at diagnosis, through treatment, and beyond. She is on the Medical Advisory Board for Living Beyond Breast Cancer.

Evelyn Robles-Rodriguez DNP, APN, AOCN

Director of Outreach, Prevention, and Survivorship, MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper

Evelyn Robles-Rodriguez, DNP, APN, AOCN serves as the director for outreach, prevention, and survivorship. Her research interests are in breast cancer, solid tumors, cancer screening and prevention, women's health, and cancer survivorship.

She is bilingual in English and Spanish and is committed to the cancer education of the lay and professional community. She is on the Medical Advisory Board for Living Beyond Breast Cancer.

Tandria Edwards

Patient Advocate

Tandria, known as Tan, is a single mother of twins who relocated to Georgia just before the pandemic's onset. In the fall of 2020 she was diagnosed with stage IIB DCIS breast cancer and embarked on a comprehensive treatment journey. As she navigates her way through survivorship, Tan is currently undergoing hormone therapy, which includes Letrozole, Lupron injections, and Verzenio. Tan serves as an ambassador for For the Breast of Us and as an ANGEL Advocate for Tigerlily.

Diane Heditsian

Founder and CEO, deClarity

Diane Heditsian, a four-time breast cancer survivor, integrates her personal journey with an unwavering passion to enhance healthcare. Diane often addresses physician, researcher, and patient audiences nationally and internationally on breast cancer topics. She developed and presented An Advocate’s Prescription for Survivorship Care at ASCO’s inaugural Cancer Survivorship Symposium. For two decades, she has been serving as a breast cancer peer counselor including with Living Beyond Breast Cancer and UCSF Health’s Breast Care Center. She was awarded a Fulbright Specialist designation in Cancer Advocacy to help develop cancer advocacy programs around the world.

Alicia Lagendijk

Patient Advocate

Alicia lives in Oceanside, California, with her husband, two boys, two dogs, and a tortoise. She is a nurse case manager in a breast health clinic. Alicia was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2021, after learning that she had a BRCA mutation. Alicia went through chemotherapy, a bilateral mastectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy, ovarian suppression, a PARP inhibitor, radiation, oophorectomy, and DIEP flap breast reconstruction surgery. She is in her second year of endocrine therapy. She is a member of 2022 LBBC's Young Advocate program.