Additional Publications
Publications in the public press with GBCA authors
October 31, 2015
An academically trained skeptic, this single project has turned me into a raving optimist.
Imagine you are a big drug company, testing out a new drug. You pick a group of people who you think are most likely to respond to the drug. If you give the new drug to ten cancer patients and nine of them have progressive disease — their tumors continue to grow — then you’re probably going to shelve that drug. You wouldn’t possibly want to give a drug to a group of patients when 90 percent of them will continue to get worse. But what about that one patient?
Read more: An Extraordinary Approach to Metastatic Breast Cancer
Read more: Celebrating Milestones and the Doubts That Linger: (Almost) Three Years Cancer-Free
October 12, 2015
Thoughts on losing my last shred of dignity during breast cancer treatment and the Mardi Gras beads I earned along the way.
I think every woman who has given birth to a child feels like the process of growing, birthing and breastfeeding a brand new tiny human takes away just about every shred of dignity that she has. Like many moms, after getting two kiddos through babyhood, my body rarely felt like it was my own, and it certainly didn't feel nearly as sacred as it had pre-baby.
January 6, 2014
Breast cancer didn’t beat me. But the term survivor just doesn’t feel right.
In June 1999, a new bride, I moved to Arlington to attend graduate school at Georgetown University. My husband was starting a postdoctoral fellowship at the FDA, and I had chosen the Tumor Biology Training Program at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown. Lombardi has a nationally re-nowned breast cancer program, and I soon settled into a lab doing breast cancer research alongside many talented scientists.
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