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Susan G. Komen Reaches Metastatic Breast Cancer
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Community In Innovative Ways During Pandemic

Although COVID-19 has created an Having up-to-the-minute information and support for together virtually to continue moving forward.”
unprecedented disruption, Susan G. Komen facing the unique challenges and concerns of living with In the past, community-based events connected people
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has found ways to serve the women and men MBC available is more critical than ever. With concerns about living with MBC, and their caregivers, with the latest
who need them most. The organization recently visiting doctors and going out in public any more than you research and medical news, information on complementary
launched a virtual Metastatic Breast Cancer have to, the organization added extra layers of protection for its therapies, and community support. The organization has
(MBC) Impact Series to share the latest immunocompromised constituency by bringing this information added event live streams to ensure people unable to attend
scientific discoveries improving breast to them in the comfort and safety of their own homes. in person could still benefit from the information pertinent
cancer treatments, information that those fighting this “We believe that our present and future situations will to their health. In the last twelve months, Komen has hosted
disease are desperate for. allow us to drive even more impact for more people than ever 52 live events, including 26 conferences, 16 educational
It is estimated that an estimated 154,000 women in the before. Accessible technology and an increased desire to find events, six retreats, and numerous Facebook Live sessions/
U.S. and a countless number of men are living with metastatic new ways to fight MBC is something that impacts the lives webinars/online learning series. This new MBC Impact
breast cancer – the most advanced stage of breast cancer that of more than 154,000 women and an unknown number of Series is available at no cost and will be accessible to all.
has spread outside the breast, often to the brain, bones, liver men in the U.S.,” shared Kate Watt, regional vice president, “Komen works with partners in thousands of communities to
and lungs. Currently, there is no cure for metastatic breast Development Southeast for Susan G. Komen. “We are growing unlock the scientific discoveries and deliver the support needed to
cancer, and it is responsible for almost all the 42,000 breast our digital footprint to ensure that even though we cannot be help people with MBC,” added Watt. “We are excited to present
cancer deaths in the U.S. each year. with our Susan G. Komen family in person, we can gather this regularly-updated listing of virtual events and speakers and
have nearly a dozen events in this series already scheduled.”
I Didn’t Know That ... Susan G. Komen’s Metastatic Breast Cancer Impact Series
begins on Wednesday, Sept. 12 and runs through Sunday,
Bet You Didn’t Know It Either Nov. 15. A full schedule is available on the new https://mbc.
komen.org/#mbc-impact-series website.
“In this increasingly interconnected world, events like
our MBC Impact Series enable us to meet people where
Fascinating trivia facts Was President Clinton Denied Access To Elvis they live and access care. Working together, we will achieve
compiled by Stanley Presley’s Bedroom? our goal of reducing breast cancer deaths by 50 percent by
Morgenbesser The heavily guarded room where Elvis spent his final 2026,” ended Watt.
What Does “O’Clock” Stand hours remains in the exact condition it was in the night To learn more about Susan G. Komen, please visit www.
For? he died. Clothes remain in the drawers, sheets on the komenflorida.org or call (561) 514-3020.
The term “o’clock” is a bed, and nothing touched. It’s the Holy Grail for any About Susan G. Komen
contraction that has become Elvis fan, but almost no one has ever walked through the Susan G. Komen is the world’s leading nonprofit breast
more famous and used than plush double doors. Only Elvis’s family and the estate cancer organization, working to save lives and end breast cancer
its original form, which was manager have keys to the padlocks, and when President forever. Komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree
“of the clock.” The practice Clinton toured the facility in the 1990s, he was denied approach to fighting this disease across all fronts and supporting
of saying “o’clock” is simply access. Rumor has it there’s only been one non-Presley to millions of people in the U.S. and countries worldwide. We
a remnant of simpler times, cross the threshold into the King’s domain: actor Nicolas advocate for patients, drive research breakthroughs, improve
when clocks weren’t very prevalent. So to distinguish the fact Cage. Cage married Elvis’s daughter, Lisa Marie, and, as access to high-quality care, offer direct patient support, and
that one was referencing a clock’s time, rather than something the story goes, got a personal tour of the bedroom as his empower people with trustworthy information. Born out of
like a sundial, as early as the Fourteenth Century one would say wedding present. a promise between two sisters, Susan G. Komen remains
something like, “It is five of the clock,” which later got slurred committed to supporting those affected by breast cancer today,
down to “five o’clock.” I Didn’t Know That on page 10 while tirelessly searching for tomorrow’s cures.

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