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Metavivor Research and Support Inc., a national non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for stage IV metastatic breast cancer (MBC), announces its first Black president, Jamil K. Rivers of Philadelphia, PA.
This week we hear from METAvivor Vice-President, Terlisa Sheppard and her daughters Alexis and Alyah Sheppard. Together they discuss what life has been like growing up with a terminally ill mom.
Edited by Barbara Bigelow
I have spent most of my 25-year career in non-profit management working alongside volunteers. It has been rewarding and I have met some incredibly talented people who have taught me a great deal about “service above self”.
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This week’s blog come from Rebekah Howerton, a single mom to a 13-year-old son, who has recently endured three radical brain surgeries and brain radiation while living with MBC over the last 5 years. She is member of Emory’s patient advocate program. Here she shares her view of life.
Edited by Barbara Bigelow
