Hello and welcome to the Breast Cancer Coalition’s Blog, Coalition Voice.

Weighty Issues After Cancer
It comes as an unwelcome surprise to many who are diagnosed with breast cancer that treatments for the disease often result in weight gain.

2019 Research Award Recipient
Danielle Erin Desa is a third-year Ph.D. student working with the laboratory of Edward Brown, Ph.D. at the University of Rochester. As the 2019 recipient of the Coalition’s Pre-and-Post-Doctoral Grant for her proposal, Understanding the Mechanisms Underlying a Novel Predictor of Metastasis, she will study an optical signal produced by fibrillar collagen in breast tumors.