An email today from Sharon Ford Watkins of the National Breast Cancer Coalition is requesting input on defining the 2013 Legislative and Public Policy priorities. The fact that they are asking the “masses” what we think is a good thing. The fact that the “masses” have not yet been heard on the topic of metastatic breast cancer – not so good. Below you will find my response to their request.

Dear Sharon,

You don’t know me, but I have been an eager and vocal supporter of NBCC for the last four years or so. As soon as I had learned about NBCC I knew I had found an organization that “got it” and a place where my voice would reach much further and deeper than it ever could on my own.

When Deadline 2020 was launched I, along with so many others, stood with NBCC in supporting and even justifying the strategy…