Beyond the Pink: Speakers to discuss metastatic breast cancer this Sunday at Carson Tahoe
The statistics are staggering. Thirty percent of the people diagnosed with breast cancer go on to get metastatic breast cancer.
Metastatic beast cancer is an incurable disease. It is when breast cancer has spread beyond the breast, possibly to the lymph nodes or other organs in the body. Around 40,000 people a year in the US die from it. It is the advanced part of breast cancer and it is rarely discussed.
Lily Reedy, from Carson City is trying to change all of that. The breast cancer she fought in 2015 and had been in remission, came back and this time the breast cancer was in her liver.
She has never found one other person in Carson City or Reno with metastatic breast cancer.
To learn more, Lily and her husband Brian went to a Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference in Philadelphia last year. They also went to Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the Stanford Women’s Cancer Center in California. In September they went to Washington, D.C. to advocate for more research funding allocation for Metastatic Breast Cancer.
As Lily has learned more about the disease, she wants to help others see the hope she sees in treating this disease.
So, this Sunday, Oct. 20, in the Bristlecomb Room of Carson Tahoe Hospital, beginning at 2 p.m., Lily Reedy is hosting a gathering that will bring a nationally recognized speaker — Dr. Kelly Shanahan — who also has metastatic breast cancer — to help start the process of raising awareness and coming together.
Cancer survivors and the public are invited to join in a Beyond the Pink Ribbon meeting featuring Dr. Shanahan, an OBGYN, researcher, advocate and METAvivor board director. Also featured to speak will be Terra Maddox, an oncology patient navigator at Carson Tahoe Cancer Resource Center. Lily Reedy will also speak about her experience, and a metastaic breast cancer thriver and striver.
The event will be from 2 to 4 p.m. RSVP if possible to LHReedy@sbcglobal.net.
There will be a lot of formal literature on METS from nationally recognized organizations. Reedy hopes that people will bring their families and loved ones to all share in the learning and find more hope. We intend for this event to be honest, informative, and open.
This is being framed in the light of positivity and hope. We want to encourage people to learn more and help add to the chorus to save more lives.
Lily is especially hoping to gather up others with metastatic breast cancer to the event so they can learn more and share concerns and work together to make the best information available to lengthen and save lives. For more information, go to www.careliving4all.com or call (775) 883-4144.
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