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Komen’s Patient Navigation Program supporting the Stand for H.E.R. initiative is unique because it is a multifaceted approach. The program connects patients to resources, support and empowers navigators with knowledge, skills and solutions, including a focus on workforce development for Black professionals who want to become patient navigators.
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Susan G. Komen’s Do It Yourself fundraising is rolling out its first campaign, one that is designed to make meetings fun while also raising funds that will help save lives and support breast cancer research.
Kim Johnson, MDSenior Director, Stand for H.E.R. Lisa Hinton, MPHSenior Manager, Stand for H.E.R The Black Woman. For years poets have called her ‘phenomenal,’ artists have tried to capture her essence on canvas, economists have described her as a bedrock of the U.S. economy and now our nation calls her Vice President. Many of us […]
The cost to persons living with metastatic breast cancer extends beyond treatment. The toll the disease takes makes it especially toxic.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Oncology Center of Excellence, Project Community has declared June 17—23, 2021, as National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week. Black families are among the hardest hit for aggressive types of breast cancer, late stage diagnoses and poor outcomes. In addition, Black women tend to face disparities in breast cancer treatment. […]
Palliative care, hospice care and pain management were discussed during Susan G. Komen’s May 24th Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Impact Series event. Caring for yourself or your loved ones with MBC involves conversations and decisions about how to prolong life while ensuring quality of life is the best it can be. Participants in the event […]
The first conversation in Susan G. Komen’s year-long Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Impact Series focused on the basics of living with the disease.
On February 26, 2018, Stephanie Walker was diagnosed with a blood clot in her lung and, a couple of months later, had a mini stroke. Her life immediately changed. Stephanie could no longer work and lost her health insurance. The loss was significant – it meant she no longer had coverage for her metastatic breast […]
Susan G. Komen’s Treatment Assistance Program provides financial assistance to patients currently in treatment to help them with expenses associated with their basic needs.
In the U.S. today, a Black woman is about 40 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than a white woman.
Across the country, Black women often don’t have access to the care they need or lack affordable health care coverage.
