Amanda Walsh I was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2021. I was young, and my family was still reeling from two loved ones’ own breast cancer diagnoses earlier that same year. When I first found my lump, I thought, there’s no way I have cancer. Not right now. The universe wouldn’t allow that, right? […]
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by Dawn Anderson In 1993, a 37-year-old Milwaukee native, Sherry Kohlenberg, spoke at the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s rally in Washington DC. “This year 46,000 women will die of breast cancer,” she says. “I will probably be among these statistics. I will leave behind my husband and partner of 18 years, a motherless child, a
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by Dawn Anderson “I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to politicians.” – Charles de Gaulle At the WBCC, we have always believed that it’s critical to educate policymakers about issues related to breast cancer and our priorities. How can they possibly know everything they need
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by Dawn Anderson “Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.” – Susan B. Anthony The Wisconsin Elections Commission estimates there were over 4.5 million voting age residents in Wisconsin in 2022. They have spreadsheets available if you’re interested, but in general, going back 20 plus years, spring elections have only inspired 11-34% of
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Getting ready to launch our 2023 policy priorities by Dawn Anderson On November 8, 2022, all 99 seats in the Wisconsin Assembly and 17 of the 33 Senate seats were up for reelection. This was the first election since new districts were drawn after the 2020 census. The election resulted in 64 Republican held Assembly
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by Dawn Anderson The holiday decorations are all down and packed away (mostly . . .) and this time of year we tend to think about fresh starts. Have you been considering some shelf cleaning and organizing to start this new year out right? Maybe you have lots of bottles of cleaning supplies and cosmetics
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by Dawn Anderson “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” – William E. Vaughan This made me laugh out loud! It’s definitely a truth this time of year (IF we can still stay awake until midnight). 365 days is
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by Linda Hansen I found the lump that was Stage IV metastatic breast cancer just five weeks after a “clean” mammogram. And I was mad. How could metastatic breast cancer be missed on a mammogram? I spent that first year going through surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, but in the back of my mind, the question
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by Dawn Anderson BACKGROUND The Wisconsin Well Woman Program (WWWP) is part of a national program established by Congress known as the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP). Since 1994, it has made mammograms and pap screenings available at no cost to women living in Wisconsin, ages 45-64 with household incomes below
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by Dawn Anderson For most of our almost 30-year existence, the WBCC has maintained that pink ribbons and “hope” are not enough to stop women from dying from breast cancer. We’ve focused on taking action – “STANDING UP AND SPEAKING OUT” – to make sure there is appropriate research funding allocated, to ensure all women
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