
Thank You, Community!
By Melissa Jenkins on November 25th, 2015 Categories: Inside Breastcancer.orgThanksgiving 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
By Derek Olson on August 18th, 2011 Categories: Inside Breastcancer.orgI’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!
By Maria McDonald on March 2nd, 2011 Categories: Inside Breastcancer.org[Editor’s Note: These auctions have been discontinued. Thank you for your support!]
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
By Karen Young on October 21st, 2010 Categories: Inside Breastcancer.orgI’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
By Claire Nixon on October 8th, 2010 Categories: Inside Breastcancer.orgThere 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 …