Thank You, Community!

Thanksgiving in the United States is a holiday we love, when we show our gratitude for the people who inspire us, help us, and make a difference in our lives.

This Thanksgiving, on behalf of Breastcancer.org’s team of Discussion Board moderators, I want to thank you — all of our incredible community members! Although this is not a community anybody ever wants to join, and …

The Breastcancer.org User Experience

I’ve been working with Breastcancer.org since the summer of 2000. It has been an amazing journey.  I’ve watched this website grow from humble beginnings—a few dozen visitors a day—into the most popular breast cancer website in the world.

It is a neverending job to keep a world-class website up and running.

There’s expensive hardware that has to stay running all day and all night, every …

Donate or Bid – You Can Make a Difference!

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So much to do, and so little time… I know we all say it. Though, somewhere in all of that, we say to ourselves, “I would love to do something to make a difference.”

Here at Breastcancer.org, we are hoping our whole community can help make a difference. We’ve teamed up with an …

My Most Memorable BCO Moment: Meeting Lori

I’d been working at Breastcancer.org for about 2 weeks. It was my first assignment – do a video about Breastcancer.org and our girls’ prevention initiative.

We were doing the video shoot over the weekend at Lankenau Hospital outside of Philadelphia. We had set up interviews with a number of patients treated by Breastcancer.org founder and president Dr. Marisa Weiss.

I arrived early with the film …

My Most Memorable BCO Moment: Strength in Numbers

There probably isn’t one specific moment about working at Breastcancer.org that stands out above and beyond all others. It’s more the day-to-day experience of planning and improving our web content — always looking at what else our audience needs from us — and recruiting great experts who can answer those very specific treatment questions.

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, I was …