September 20, 2022 By:  Paris Smith Audiences:  For Everyone A Young Woman Triple-Negative Breast Cancer African American I am no stranger to hardship. My name is Paris Smith. I am 36 years old, and I live in Atlanta, Georgia, where I work in healthcare as a medical assistant, a job I love because I naturally enjoy helping people. In 2015 I was diagnosed with relapse remitting multiple sclerosis. For months, I lost the ability to walk, and I didn’t know when I would walk again. During that time, I learned I had to fight if I wanted to see any improvements in my health. If I h ..read more

September 13, 2022 By:  Robin Warshaw Audiences:  For Everyone A Young Woman African American “Speak up for yourself. And don’t be afraid to have a bad day.” Michelle Anderson-Benjamin offers that advice and more to people with cancer. Such guidance is drawn from her work, her training as a certified mental health advocate and coach, and her personal experiences since the morning in September 2020 when she found blood leaking from her right breast. Days later, Michelle, then 36 years old, was diagnosed with stage I triple-negative breast cancer. Treatment didn’t go easily. Sh ..read more

LBBC News September 8, 2022 Author:  Stephanie Levin There is a lot we don’t know about why one person will develop breast cancer and another won’t. We do know most breast cancers aren’t caused by hereditary gene mutations (changes), but we also know scientists have identified mutations that can increase cancer risk. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the two best understood, but there are other genes associated with higher cancer risk. Whether you’re at high risk, newly diagnosed, or being treated for breast cancer, you may want to talk with your health care team about genetic testing for inherited ..read more

September 23, 2022 01:00pm to 02:15pm EDT Webinar Register Spiritual care is a critical element of patient care, but guiding breast cancer patients who have different faiths and beliefs can feel challenging for providers. How can healthcare providers assist breast cancer patients in decision making across the continuum of care while incorporating patients’ spiritual beliefs?  To address this question and provide a framework for providers to understand and incorporate their patients’ spiritual beliefs, Living Beyond Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Resource Center (BCRC) have pa ..read more

August 22, 2022 By:  Robin Warshaw Audiences:  For Everyone Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer A Young Woman After three years of enduring infertility therapies and a second-trimester miscarriage, Gillian Lichota sat in her OB-GYN’s office and heard the news she had been hoping for – she was nine weeks pregnant. On the same day, an ultrasound of a mass in one breast showed she also had breast cancer. A biopsy later confirmed that finding. An oncologist then told Gillian she had Stage III breast cancer and would need to assemble her own team of doctors to develop a treatment ..read more

August 26, 2022 12:00pm EDT to September 1, 2022 11:00pm EDT DIY Fundraisers BUY TICKETS   czVhhAaSBFpakur7U8pOIDV9NUG.jpg Watch GREASE and support LBBC! The Broad Theater is generously donating 10% of all GREASE movie ticket proceeds to Living Beyond Breast Cancer. Showings run Aug 26 - Sept 1.    Learn More / Purchase Tickets   Questions? Contact Monica Steigerwald 484-708-1543. Related Events Broad Theater 24 W Broad St Souderton, PA 18964 United States ..read more

September 14, 2022 12:00pm to 01:00pm EDT Webinar Sharing the news of a breast cancer diagnosis with family and friends is never easy, but it can be even more challenging to have conversations about cancer with children and teens.  Join Living Beyond Breast Cancer and the National Navigation Roundtable (NNRT) for a free, hourlong webinar on how you can help your patients navigate how to discuss breast cancer with their children. During the program, featured panelists will share insights and an overview of the skills and tools needed to guide young breast cancer patients in hav ..read more

July 26, 2022 By:  Robin Warshaw Audiences:  For Everyone A Young Woman Years before she would have a mastectomy as part of breast cancer treatment, Shangrong Lee was a child living in Kansas, worried about her physical appearance. While that’s a common concern for many young girls, it was particularly hard on Shangrong, a child of Taiwanese immigrants. Her family was one of the few families of color in the area, and she heard cruel racist comments about her body from other children. “They would say, ‘Why is your face so flat? Did you get run over by a truck?’ Or because my e ..read more

LBBC Viewpoints June 24, 2022 Living Beyond Breast Cancer stands with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the American Medical Association (AMA), as well as the majority of U.S. physicians, in expressing deep concern about the potential implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Our organization believes in people’s ability to make decisions about their own bodies. We firmly reiterate our commitment to the critical role of private communications between patients and medical providers; a patient’s right to make ..read more

July 19, 2022 By:  Meredith Kane-Sokol Audiences:  For Everyone After reading the Judy Blume blockbuster, I would sit on my parents’ dark blue plush carpet in the living room with my younger sister and chant, “I must, I must, I must increase my bust!” We would then fall back and roll around and laugh with abandon like the young girls we were, unselfconscious about our joy and our bodies. Fast forward a few decades to my mid-forties: 43, to be exact, when my cousin was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and her mother (my aunt) was soon diagnosed with cervical cancer. These two diag ..read more