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May 7, 2025

Q&A with Pat Halpin-Murphy

This May, the PA Breast Cancer Coalition partners with Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward to celebrate Mammography Month and Mother’s…

April 2, 2025

Federal Cancer Research Funding Under Threat

With the passage of the National Health Service Act in 1944, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was created and included…

March 18, 2025

Women’s History Month

Celebrating HisHerstory: The PBCC Honors Women of Impact throughout Women’s History Month   Pat Halpin-Murphy “I knew I had been spared…

March 15, 2025

Survivor Spotlight: Shannon Gottesman

Shannon Gottesman PBCC Allegheny County Captain My diagnosis It was following my first mammogram after I had turned 40. In January…

February 4, 2025

Survivor Spotlight: Sue Quackenbush

“I am no stranger to challenges.” In the years leading up to her breast cancer diagnosis, Sue Quackenbush of Chester County…

November 12, 2024

Survivor Spotlight: Melissa Rowse

My diagnosis I was diagnosed in 2015 after my very first mammogram. I was 40 years old at the time and…

September 9, 2024

Grassroots Partner Spotlight: Pink Out in the Park

We asked Pink Out in the Park organizer Krista Hair to share details about her Grassroots Partner event, her inspiration, her…

August 29, 2024

Medical News

Understanding How Familial Genetics Impact Breast Cancer Risk: Bridging the Gap Between DNA Mutations and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer      …

August 9, 2024

Survivor Spotlight: Amanda Searight

Amanda Searight, Beaver County My diagnosis and treatment I received my diagnosis December 9, 2021. With covid, my first mammogram was…

May 21, 2024

Survivor Spotlight: Connie Bootz

In May 2023, I was diagnosed with DCIS breast cancer. It was random and detected by my annual mammogram. I felt…