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Nothing about us without us. 🤍In Nothing About Us Without Us: Patient Advocacy in Research + Policy, our panelists refle...
08/28/2026

Nothing about us without us. 🤍

In Nothing About Us Without Us: Patient Advocacy in Research + Policy, our panelists reflect on what it means for patients to have a real voice in the systems, research, and decisions that affect their lives.

From advocating for yourself in the exam room, to asking better questions about research, to speaking openly about what patients need and deserve, advocacy can take many forms.

Your story matters. Your lived experience matters. And meaningful change happens when patients are not just included in the conversation, but treated as essential partners in it.

Swipe through for a few reflections from the panel. 🤍
Watch the full conversation, recorded live at Camp Breastie 2026, now on The Breasties YouTube channel. Link in bio.

CancerResearch

08/27/2026

Patient advocacy has helped change the course of cancer treatment. 🤍

In Nothing About Us Without Us: Patient Advocacy in Research + Policy, Isaac Chan, MD, PhD (UT Southwestern) shares the story of Herceptin and the role patient advocacy played in pushing a potentially life-saving treatment forward.

When patients learned there was a promising drug that wasn’t moving ahead, they asked a simple but powerful question: Why isn’t this available to us?

That pressure helped move Herceptin into clinical trials, where it ultimately became a treatment that has changed countless lives.

It’s a reminder that patient voices don’t just belong in the conversation—they can help shape what happens next.

Watch the full conversation now on The Breasties YouTube channel.
Link in bio. 🤍

HER2 NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

A little summer recap from our Breasties community. ☀️🤍From traveling and exploring new places to slowing down, soaking ...
08/26/2026

A little summer recap from our Breasties community. ☀️🤍

From traveling and exploring new places to slowing down, soaking up the little moments, and making time for themselves, we love seeing our incredible Community Leaders out there doing what they do best: living.

Thank you to life with avamarie, Veronica Saenz Laurel, Katie Ponte, Shal, Aisha, Rei Hiroki, Emily Martin, Randi Fenichel Treilman, and Aleah Lauchlan for sharing a little piece of your summer with us. 🤍

We love seeing our Breasties thrive—in whatever way that looks and feels for you.

Now we want to hear from you: What was the absolute best part of your summer? 💬👇

08/25/2026

Advocacy doesn’t have to start with something huge. It can start with your voice. 🤍

In Nothing About Us Without Us: Patient Advocacy in Research + Policy, moderator Amanda Rice from The Chick Mission shares a reminder that advocacy is about more than passing laws or taking on a massive public role.

Your lived experience matters. Your story matters. And speaking up—whether in a doctor’s office, a research setting, your community, or a policy conversation—can help shape the systems that impact patients every day.

Recorded live at Camp Breastie 2026, this conversation explores the many ways patients, survivors, thrivers, previvors, and caregivers can help influence cancer research, clinical trials, healthcare policy, and more equitable care.

Watch the full conversation now on The Breasties YouTube channel.
Link in bio. 🤍

HealthEquity

Latinx Breastie Meetup🤍Join us for a space centered around connection, community, and support for Latinx Breasties navig...
08/25/2026

Latinx Breastie Meetup🤍

Join us for a space centered around connection, community, and support for Latinx Breasties navigating cancer, survivorship, previvorship, caregiving, and everything in between.

Through guided discussions and activities, we’ll explore tools and practices to support one another as we navigate our unique lived experiences, identities, roles, and aspirations.

No matter your age, stage, or diagnosis — you are welcome here.

🗓 Thursday, 8/27
⏰ 8PM EST / 5PM PST

is RSVP exclusively on the free Breasties app:
app.thebreasties.org

Flattie Meetup 🤍Wednesday, 8/26⏰ 8PM EST / 5PM PSTThis is a Breastie meetup for anyone who has had a unilateral mastecto...
08/24/2026

Flattie Meetup 🤍

Wednesday, 8/26
⏰ 8PM EST / 5PM PST

This is a Breastie meetup for anyone who has had a unilateral mastectomy with no reconstruction or an aesthetic flat closure.

This meetup is open to the entire Breasties community, no matter your diagnosis.

Whether you’re healing from surgery, years out, or still exploring what feels right for your body — you are welcome here.

Come as you are. Share if you’d like. Listen if you need. Be in community with others who understand the physical, emotional, and identity shifts that can come with going flat.

RSVP exclusively on the free Breasties app:
app.thebreasties.org

Parenting through cancer doesn’t come with a perfect script. 🤍In The Weight We Carry: The Invisible Mental Load of Paren...
08/24/2026

Parenting through cancer doesn’t come with a perfect script. 🤍

In The Weight We Carry: The Invisible Mental Load of Parenting and Cancer, Morgan Walker, Brooke Desir, Melary Cruz, and Paige Mooney reflect on the questions, guilt, honesty, advocacy, and grace that can come with trying to care for your children while navigating so much yourself.

From answering the hard questions, to apologizing when you don’t show up the way you hoped, to modeling self-advocacy and remembering that parents are figuring life out, too—there is no one “right” way to do this.

Swipe through for a few moments from the conversation. 🤍

Watch the full panel, recorded live at Camp Breastie 2026, now on The Breasties YouTube channel.

Link in bio.
MentalHealth

Anyone else missing our morning coffee truck? ☕️One of our favorite little Camp Breastie moments—coffee, community, and ...
08/24/2026

Anyone else missing our morning coffee truck? ☕️

One of our favorite little Camp Breastie moments—coffee, community, and a slow start to the day together.

This morning was made possible by our partners at Bobbie , with the coffee truck brought to life by rosecreativesinc

Missing mornings like this. 🤍

Missing connection? 🤍A few little moments from Camp Breastie—and a reminder that you are never alone in this community.I...
08/21/2026

Missing connection? 🤍

A few little moments from Camp Breastie—and a reminder that you are never alone in this community.

If you’re missing camp, craving connection, or just need to be around people who get it, The Breasties community is still here long after the weekend ends.

You can connect with others anytime on The Breasties App, or join us for one of our upcoming virtual meetups from wherever you are.
Missing you, Breasties. 🤍

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