The Metastatic Breast Cancer Project

Patient Resources

The Metastatic Breast Cancer Project (MBCproject.org) is a nationwide study to empower patients to accelerate research by sharing their samples & clinical info. We are proud to be a partner in this effort.  Below are details.  If you have a stage 4 diagnoses or...

Update: Dr. Naoto Ueno and the statin project 

Patient Resources

This project seeked to develop preclinical evidence about the effectiveness of statins in IBC models to determine whether a randomized clinical trial is warranted. This followed from an epidemiological finding that in IBC patients, those taking a statin from the...

Dr. Google can save lives, but also can get it wrong.

General, Patient Resources

Please see update June 18, 2016 regarding this note.  Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I wanted to share something an IBC sister pointed out to me. She was searching for information on Inflammatory Breast Cancer. When she put the term in Google for a search, a blue box...

Inflammatory Breast Cancer and Social Security

Patient Resources

Inflammatory breast cancer patients are covered by Social Security benefits to help manage the financial strain of disease-related expenses. If you have been diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, you are also qualified to receive a Compassionate Allowance....

The MBC Project

General, Patient Resources, Physician Resources

The IBC Network Foundation honored to be a partner with the Metastatic Breast Cancer Project. The MBC project is led by Dr. Nikhil Wagle, MD, a breast cancer oncologist and metastatic breast cancer researcher and directed by Corrie Painter, PhD, a cancer researcher,...

The Inflammatory Breast Cancer Guide

Patient Resources, Physician Resources

t]1. Download the infographic to your computer by clicking this link: The Inflammatory Breast Cancer Guide or if you want a multi-page PDF to print separate pages click here: The Inflammatory Guide Multi-Page 2. After downloading, open the infographic in your PDF...