Linda

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Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer following an annual mammogram in her early 60s.
To learn more, see Linda’s experiences with breast cancer as well as cancer risk that runs in families. Though she “wanted to,” Linda has “not needed a clinical trial” so has not participated in any. Linda works as an advocate for a local organization that supports people living with breast cancer, so though she has not participated in any trials she has found other ways to be involved. Linda sits as a breast cancer patient representative on the board of her local research institute, for a study where “they are working on targeted breast cancer drugs and immunotherapy.” Through this work, Linda is able “to provide input” on what “eventually, one day, will be a clinical trial or drugs,” work which she feels “blessed to be…part of.”
It has been “important” for Linda to “try to help in that development of a very targeted drug.” Linda knows if “down the road” she was “ever to have a recurrence” it could help her and others in a similar position looking for “targeted hormone therapies.”