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mts · 04-05-2010, 06:47 PM

I am moving this one up so more have a chance at considering this invaluable opportunity. I have been a consumer reviewer for nearly 4 years and am amazed each time at the advances coming down the pike.
Us consumers really do have a say in the way funding is spent on breast cancer. Besides, you learn about which cancer centers are on the 'cutting edge' in technological advances and therapies.
You are paid $750 for nearly 2 weeks of reviews (usually around 15 proposals) over your computer and then 2 days of hands-on work in DC.

MTS

04-05-2010, 06:47 PM	#4
mts Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Central Florida Posts: 503	Re: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Panel in need of breast cancer survivor I am moving this one up so more have a chance at considering this invaluable opportunity. I have been a consumer reviewer for nearly 4 years and am amazed each time at the advances coming down the pike. Us consumers really do have a say in the way funding is spent on breast cancer. Besides, you learn about which cancer centers are on the 'cutting edge' in technological advances and therapies. You are paid $750 for nearly 2 weeks of reviews (usually around 15 proposals) over your computer and then 2 days of hands-on work in DC. MTS __________________ -------------- Dx'd 8/04 at 41 Stage 1 for some onc's; Stage II for others (if you add up the sizes of all tumors). Infiltrating DCIS HER2+, ER+10% & PR- .9cm tumor not visible on mammo, but palpable; visible on ultrasound Lumpectomy/ clear margins, no nodes Had Breast MRI after lumpectomy that revealed two more tumors in same quadrant(.4cm and 1.6cm) that were not visible on either mammo or ultrasound. Re-excision DD AC+T; Herceptin one year Rads NED/Taking Tamoxifen reluctantly --------------