annemarie
Breast Cancer Survivorship & Prevention
I am four years post active treatment and in recent months have begun to realize there is another side to being a cancer patient. The other side of treatment is a scary place. I know I feel like I'm "flying without a net" for lack of a better metaphor. There are tolls beyond the effects of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy and they are scars that linger in many women. I joined Army of Women because I believe research and understanding why some of us get this disease is the only way to cure and ultimately prevent the disease. I have a family cluster of disease and joined the National Breast Cancer Coalition and will become part of Project Lead to learn how to be a proper advocate with the government for funding toward the right research. We are not nearly far enough. Billions of dollars and decades of research yet there has been very little change in the treatment protocol. Metastatic disease is still underfunded and understudied and those women do not have a "chronic illness" as some would like us to believe. They are terminally ill. I want better for them and for the next generation.
