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was started by five women at the suggestion of one of them who in fact died of breast cancer. Her suggestion was to “get the community involved” with what is ultimately a community problem. Co-chairs Gretchen Bylow, Hillary Corbin, and Jordan Rhodes shared their personal connections to breast cancer. Amy Robach, ABC’s Good Morning America news anchor and author of New York Times bestseller “Better,” was the featured speaker talking about her own journey with breast cancer. “Cancer took a lot from me, but gave me back awareness.” She said her personal battle taught her to accept love; a hard lesson, but imperative to win the battle. BCA’s president, Mary Jeffery noted that 2017 would see 250,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer. She
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expressed her pride in BCA’s ability to provide scientific venture capital that allows young investigators to carry on innovative research, without which a cure will not be found. BCA’s executive director, Yonni Wattenmaker, told me that while the number of diagnoses are increasing, the number of survivors is increasing too. Yonni and an assistant are the only two paid individuals in the entire organization. Everything else— projects, events, mailings, planning—is carried out by their devoted volunteers. Community, again, moving things forward. Twenty-two years later BCA is one of the largest private, non-corporate breast cancer organizations in the country. Of those 1,000 or more guests at the 22nd luncheon, many are actively
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