Dr. Beth Overmoyer from Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center in Boston

Patient Resources, Physician Resources

In this video, Dr. Beth Overmoyer from Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center in Boston outlines the typical symptoms and standard form of treatment for inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). Learn more about Dana-Farber’s Inflammatory Breast Cancer...

How you can help us!

General, Patient Resources

Are you a To-Do List person?  Personally I am more of a “long term goal, how in the heck do I get there” person.  We are growing and we need help, so I have compiled a “To Do List” of some simple but important tasks to help us hit some of the goals for The IBC Network...

Yup, pretty much sums up my first doctor appointment

General, Patient Resources

Honestly, this comic could have been scripted about my first appointment for my swollen breast.  Terry

Inflammatory Breast Cancer Course

Patient Resources

Course Overview Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare but aggressive form of breast cancer. Although it accounts for 2-6% of all breast cancers, the 5-year overall survival rate is only 40% while the 5-year overall survival rate for all types of breast cancer combined...

Order Please! The crucial difference that getting IBC treatments in order makes.

Patient Resources

Tiny vent warning…. A few weeks ago I placed a shorter version of this post in a support group that I monitor. I also wanted to post this information because I have been on the phone for days with women who are being treated for IBC.  I am just stunned by what I...

F.D.A. Approves a New Drug for Advanced Breast Cancer

Patient Resources

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new type of drug that combines the widely used breast cancer medicine Herceptin with a powerful toxin to more effectively kill cancer cells while potentially reducing side effects.  The drug, which will be called Kadcyla but...