By Julia Maues and Christine Hodgdon Originally published in Wildfire Magazine Most of us diagnosed with breast cancer never planned on entering the cancer world. We had a life and career very distant from cancer. But we won the bad lottery. We were the one in eight. We didn’t ask for it, but cancer became […]
Living Beyond Breast Cancer had a sneak peak of a virtual GRASP session at the 2020 Annual ASCO Meeting when LBBC writer Eric Fitzsimmons joined a virtual GRASP poster walkthrough. In addition to GRASP co-founders Christine Hodgdon and Julia Maués, the discussion features patient advocates Jamil Rivers, Dionna Koval, and Shelley Fuld Nasso, as well […]
In this piece on Symplur, Liza Bernstein, a breast cancer patient and advocate – and GRASP mentor! – discusses three innovative endeavors around science posters. GRASP and the hashtag #GRASPcancer is one of them. View Original Article Written by Liza Bernstein Thousands of research posters and abstracts are presented at medical and scientific meetings every […]
Cancer Today’s Marci Landsmann writes about how advocates and advocacy organizations adapted their connections and services to be virtual. She highlights GRASP and how we shifted it online when ASCO announced its 2020 Annual Meeting would not take place in person. View Original Article Written By Marci Landsmann JONATHAN SOMMERS REMEMBERS many nights spent alone in […]
Martha Carlson, a writer living with metastatic breast cancer, – and a GRASP mentor! – discusses patients’ interest in science conferences and how to make the best of a poster session. She also describes her own experience participating in the inaugural GRASP at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and how including the patient […]
GRASP mentor Abigail Johnston talks about her “most favorite part of SABCS,” participating in the GRASP poster sessions in this advancedbreastcancer.net piece. View Original Article 2019 was my second experience attending the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) and it’s definitely on my list for 2020 as well. My most favorite part of SABCS was participating […]
Marci Landsmann writes in Cancer Today about the history of advocacy at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and how it’s evolved from support services for patients to engaging with researchers. She then writes about two groundbreaking programs that took place at SABCS in 2019: The Tigerlily Fireside Chat and GRASP. View Original Article Written […]
Breastcancer.org interviews advocates Felicia Johnson, who is living with metastatic disease, and Sharon Rivera-Sanchez, who was diagnosed in 2015 with triple-negative breast cancer. Felicia and Sharon talk about what they learned during GRASP at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Running time: 7:52 View Original Article Written by Abigail Johnston Felicia Johnson, who is […]
