Check out our takeaways from this year's San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 

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Hi
John,
We sent 5 members of our small but mighty team to this year’s SABCS – and now we’re reporting back to you.

The BCAction team attended this year’s San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) from December 6th through December 10th with our critical and social-justice-focused lens, to provide our unique, patient-centered perspective on the latest breast cancer findings.

SABCS is the largest breast cancer conference in the world that gathers doctors, researchers, patient advocates, and Big Pharma industry representatives to share the latest updates on drugs, treatments, and standards of care.

Throughout the week, our staff who attended the symposium, including myself, Executive Director Krystal Redman, Deputy Director Heather Perkins, Program Officer and Operations Manager Zoe Christopher, and Communications Manager Tibby Reas Hinderlie, provided rapid-response takes on social media ([link removed]) and published 12 blog posts ([link removed]) detailing a comprehensive summary of our biggest takeaways.

As we know, breast cancer awareness and making healthy lifestyle choices are not enough to address and end the breast cancer crisis. Our analysis from this year’s conference further solidifies this stance demonstrating across a range of topics that breast cancer is a social justice and public health issue.

Check out our #SABCS22 blog posts now, on the following topics:
* SABCS 2022 Foreward ([link removed])
* Are You Really Ready to Build Trust? (Part II): Putting Principles into Practice ([link removed])
* Bringing Trials to All Patients ([link removed])
* Changes in Tumor Microenvironment May Not Fully Explain Disparities in Breast Cancer Outcomes of Black Women ([link removed])
* Digital Health and PROs in Breast Cancer Research and Care: Patient Perspective ([link removed])
* Does Everyone Need an Annual MRI with a Mammogram? ([link removed])
* Financial Toxicity: The Fruits of a Broken Healthcare System ([link removed])
* Inequities in Big Data, Privacy, and Telemedicine ([link removed])
* Patient-Reported Outcomes – They May Be Beneficial But ([link removed]) …
* Put The Right Incentives in Place to Encourage Drug Adherence ([link removed])
* Reproductive Freedom and Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer ([link removed])
* The Burden of Overtreatment – DCIS and BabyTam Research Reprised at SABCS 2022 vs 2018 ([link removed])
* Viewing The Relationship Between Obesity and Breast Cancer Through a Social Justice Lens ([link removed])

Our strategic plan segments our work into three core components: Action & Accountability, Equity & Justice, and Advocacy & Research. We operationalize our values in our advocacy and research work by insisting on patient- and people-centered practices, policies, science, and treatment, and our SABCS analysis is a significant part of this work.

We are unabashed about infiltrating a space designed for clinicians and practitioners and demanding the industry grapple with what truly patient-centered science and research could look like.

Show your support of this bold work with a year-end gift today. ([link removed]) With the strength of our community, we continue to provide activism, advocacy, and education toward systemic changes that will stop breast cancer before it starts.

In solidarity,
Haleemah Atobiloye
Program Manager
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