Handling Progression
Sun, Sep 11
|Workshop
MBC progression is not an “if” but a “when” and getting caught off guard when progression happens is a topic often discussed in the community. Come learn from those who have experienced many progressions close together and those who are stable for long periods of time before experience.
Time & Location
Sep 11, 2022, 4:00 PM EDT
Workshop
About the event
About the presenters:
Amanda Raffenaud
Amanda has been living with state 4 metastatic breast cancer since 2018. Not only was she completely shocked to be diagnosed with breast cancer, de novo, at the age of 38, but she was shocked to learn it had spread to dozens of bones in her body. She had no early stage breast cancer diagnosis and was even under the care of a breast surgeon for four years prior to her metastatic diagnosis. Since diagnosis, she has been in active treatment for stage 4 cancer, undergoing countless bone infusions, multiple surgeries, chemotherapy lines, and monthly oncology visits. She is on her 8th line of treatment in 3 years to help stop the growth and spread of cancer. Currently she has mets to both breasts, lungs, liver, bones, and brain.
Amanda and her family are no strangers to hard things. Prior to her diagnosis, Amanda lost…