Lani, Rich or others opportunity for advocates
Dear Breast Cancer Advocate,
Today we are bringing you some exciting news about our premier breast cancer science course taking place this summer – the Project LEAD® Institute.
The Project LEAD® Institute is NBCC’s intensive, five-day science course for breast cancer advocates covering cancer biology, genetics, epidemiology, research design, and advocacy. This course is designed to provide advocates evidence-based scientific cancer knowledge upon which participants can strengthen and empower their work as research advocates.
If you have a serious interest in scientific study, in preparing yourself for participation in the policy-setting and decision-making roles of research advocacy, and in finding your integral place in the work on the Breast Cancer Deadline 2020® initiative, don’t miss your chance to apply to NBCC’s Project LEAD Institute. This summer's institute will be the only in-person Project LEAD course available in 2012.
The Institute will take place July 22 – 27, 2012 in La Jolla, CA. The application deadline for the course is June 18, 2012. Scholarships for those in financial need are available. The course is free to NBCC members and annual membership is only $35. To apply, please complete the application form found on the NBCC website.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Thank you,
Annette Bar-Cohen, Executive Director
Center for NBCC Advocacy Training
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dx 1/06 IDC 2cm 38 at dx
2/06 L mast nodes 3/9+ SNB neg ER-/Pr - her2 + Stg 4 liver/pelvis
3/06-9/06Taxol/Carbo/zometa/Herceptin
3/07 6 brain mets WBR down to c-2
4/07 osteonecrosis jaw
1/08 mri new 9mm lesion right lower side
2/08 gamma knife 1 lesion 11/08 regamma
10/09 latent rad necrosis to brain met,
1/20/10 crani: lesion necrosis w active cells continue her add tykerb
1/11 NED just Ingrown toenail! YEAH GOD
8/11 Tykerb, herceptin weekly, elevated her2 levels, negative scans
oct -march 11 new neuro deficits lower legs
3/12 2 spinal metsTykerb, Herceptin
04/12 4050cGY rads T 2-4 & T7-9
5/12 Brain,cervical lumbar clear/thoracic slight decrease
10/12 t 2-4 shrunk t-9 grew start Xeloda, 02/13 stop xeloda,5/13 on metformin, decadron, Tykerb, iv and IT herceptin 5/30/13 total #11 #2 of 80mg dose weekly.
9/13 100mg of IT her, IV hern, 750 mg tykerb, 3mg dec.
last Mri T--3 SHRUNK t7-9 shrunk no edema. Left shift in CBC bone marrow BX negative.
10/13 Ct has shown Double left ureters with stones/cysts in them, after 3 births and lots and U/S iit takes cancer to figure out you have 2 smaller ureters going into 1 kidney!
12/13 Mri brain no new lesions, cervical and lumbar arthritis.
Tspine lesion at T3 stable, T 7-9 GROWTH lots of pain
1/29/14 HIHO HIHO its off to Neuro surgery I go
Life is Good when you wake up in the morning and take a breath and know that God has given me another day.
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