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MBC Alliance

Oct 2013

MBC Alliance launches on National
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day;
Nov 2012 Jun 2013 members now include CancerCare, Dr.
Susan Love Research Foundation, Sisters
Breast cancer nonprofits join MBC Mission and goals are adopted; Network Inc., Eisai and Novartis Jun - Aug 2014
advocates to discuss how to increase governance approaches are
MBC awareness and improve the lives considered; landscape analysis is American Cancer Society Cancer
of people living with MBC; all agree that identified as first initiative; Action Network, Patient Advocacy
through collaboration, far more can be Breastcancer.org, Breast Cancer Dec 12, 2013 Foundation, and Eli Lilly join the
achieved than by individual Research Foundation, Genentech, MBC Alliance; all current 29
organizations; MBC Alliance is formed and Pfizer join San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium members meet to consider draft
with support from Celgene Alliance members meet to review the landscape key recommendations for the
Corporation analysis methodology; working groups are formed Alliance and next steps;
governance model is formalized

2013 2014

Jan - May 2014
Aug 2013 Oct 2014
Feb 2013
Avon Foundation Landscape analysis work continues; Results of the landscape
Early members are for Women becomes membership reaches 26 with the addition of analysis are released along
AdvancedBC.org, Cancer Support the Alliance’s BreastCancerTrials.org, Inflammatory Breast with actions for the MBC
Community, FORCE, Living Beyond administrative home Cancer Research Foundation, Nueva Vida, Alliance through 2016
Breast Cancer, Metastatic Breast with Dr. Marc Hurlbert Sharsheret, and Triple Step Toward the Cure
Cancer Network, Research as project leader
Advocacy Network, SHARE, Susan Nov 2013
G. Komen, Triple Negative Breast
Cancer Foundation, and Young MBC Alliance project director is
Survival Coalition appointed; work begins on the
landscape analysis; all members
meet for the first time