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April 19, 2024
Byrd Cancer Education and Advocacy Foundation
by Trudean Haye, Executive Director As the Executive Director of Byrd Cancer Education & Advocacy Foundation and the founder of ITAVFoundation (It Takes A Village), my life's mission is...
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Diversity And Inclusion ,
Featured Partner
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Screening And Prevention ,
Cancer Advocacy ,
Cancer Early Detection ,
Health Equity ,
Minority Cancer Awareness
December 19, 2023
by Hayley Brown, Director of Partnerships and Programs Even though Black women under age 35 get breast cancer at twice the rate of white women and die three times as often, even the most liberal screening guidelines recommend yearly screening...
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Screening And Prevention ,
Diversity And Inclusion ,
Featured Partner
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Women Of Color ,
Minority Cancer Awareness ,
Breast Cancer Early Detection ,
Breast Self Exam ,
Breast Screening
October 19, 2023
De Madres a Hijas: Educating Latina Mothers and Daughters about HBOC Risk
by Laura A. Logie, PhD Nueva Vida (New Life) is a community-based, non-profit organization providing culturally sensitive and competent cancer care services that support the Latino immigrant community. We work tirelessly to tackle the myriad of...
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Genetic Testing ,
Health Equity And Disparities ,
Screening And Prevention ,
Diversity And Inclusion ,
Featured Partner
Tags:
Breast Cancer ,
Ovarian Cancer ,
HBOC ,
Early Detection ,
Patient Advocacy ,
Health Disparities ,
Health Equity ,
Women Of Color ,
Minority Cancer Awareness
March 01, 2023
Lynch Syndrome Lurked in My Family’s Genes for Years Before Colon Cancer Took My Son
by Junius Nottingham During my approximately 30 years as a federal agent and supervisor, I worked undercover on numerous occasions and supervised many white-collar crimes involving doctors, lawyers and nurses. Yet none of my work or life...
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Men With Mutations ,
Stories ,
Diversity And Inclusion
Tags:
Genetic Counseling ,
Genetic Testing ,
Lynch Syndrome ,
Colorectal Cancer
February 27, 2023
In her memoir, This Boy We Made, Taylor Harris shares the story of her young son Tophs’s medical condition, a series of symptoms that his doctors can’t seem to find answers for. Harris becomes Tophs’s greatest advocate, searching for her own...
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Books And Movies ,
Stories ,
Fertility And Parenting ,
Diversity And Inclusion
Tags:
BRCA2 ,
Health Disparities ,
Mental Health ,
Women Of Color
November 01, 2022
Lynch Syndrome, an ATM Mutation and Issues of Gender Identity and Fertility Access
by Scarlett Shiloh (they/them) Unfortunately, You Have Lynch Syndrome and an ATM Mutation I remember exactly how I felt hearing my genetic counselor say the word “unfortunately.” On March 10, 2022, I found out I inherited Lynch syndrome (I...
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Stories ,
Fertility And Parenting ,
Previvor ,
Diversity And Inclusion
Tags:
Hereditary Cancer ,
ATM ,
Lynch Syndrome ,
Health Disparities ,
Health Equity ,
Mental Health
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Byrd Cancer Education and Advocacy Foundation
by Trudean Haye, Executive Director As the Executive Director of Byrd Cancer Education & Advocacy Foundation and the founder of ITAVFoundation (It Takes A Village), my life's mission is...