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Help Us Advance Black Breast Cancer Science and Save Lives!

End 2023 and start 2024 with advancing the science for Black Breast Cancer.

In 2023, TOUCHBBCA:

  • Talked to over 750,000 Black women across all of our web series— The Doctor Is In, Pink Table Talk, & Love Your Bones that air live on the BlackDoctor.org Facebook page reaching 2.7 million.
  • Hosted & actively supported over 100 live events in local communities curating meaningful interventions in the lives of Black Women where they live, work, play, pray & slay.
  • Amplified & scaled our When We Tri(al) Movement, which has informed and empowered over 15,300 Black women to search in clinical trial portals. We launched our When We Tri(al) training program providing access to our proven tools to the breast cancer ecosystem. We trained more than a dozen organizations on the movement to educate Black Women about clinical research and motivate them to act. Whenwetrial.org has garnered over 130,000 visits.
  • Launched For the Love of My Gurls, a campaign to educate, equip, and empower young Black women without a breast cancer diagnosis to understand and minimize their breast cancer risk via awareness, action, and self-advocacy. In under a year, LMG has reached over 500K people and touched (or educated deeply) 50,000. Love of My Gurls was embraced by the WNBA as an official national partner.
  • Established programmatic partnerships with dozens of organizations across the breast cancer ecosystem and key partnerships with over 80 breast cancer nonprofits.
  • Published our research manuscript Increasing Clinical Trial Participation of Black Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
  • Spearheaded the first ever summit for Black-led breast cancer organizations, by Black-led grass-roots breast cancer organizations.
  • Launched TOUCH Care, the first ever advocacy led nurse navigator outreach program for pharmaceutical company clinical trials to elevate the inclusion and participation of Black women.
  • Presented an abstract entitled “When We Tri(al): Reaching, Motivating, & Effectively Engaging Black Women In Breast Cancer Clinical Trial Research” during the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium poster session.
  • Brought our message to life on The Atlantic: People V. Cancer, The Today Show with Hoda and Jenna, ABC News, Radio One, Cafe Mocha, Patients As Partners, Core East, in Essence, FiercePharma, Healthline, OprahDaily, Shondaland, Platform Q Health and Salud and Ebony Magazine to name a few.
  • Were awarded the Unite for HER Community Partner of the year, the Warrior Award at the Pink Awards, the Sister to Sister Alliance Appreciation Award, and more.
  • Were honored with a statement about our work in September White House Cancer Moonshot Fact Sheet.
  • Launched our own TOUCH branded clinical trial portal and matching service on WhenWeTrial.org.
  • Established a strategic alliance with BEXA Equity Alliance to bring breast cancer screening to Black women under 40.
  • Serve on the President’s Cancer Panel: Innovative Navigation Models Workgroup, and the American Cancer Society National Breast Cancer Roundtable Steering Committee where CEO Ricki Fairley serves as co-leader for the Clinical Trials Work Group and the Roundtable Membership Committee. Ricki also serves on the Foundation for NIH Patient Engagement Council, the National Minority Quality Forum Cancer Stage Shifting Initiative Scientific Advisory Board, Cancer X Workgroups, and is a Consumer Reviewer for the Breast Cancer Research Program.
    Every day, new patients come to us. Close your eyes for a few seconds and imagine what it may be like to get a cancer diagnosis. You are in the dark, afraid of dying and have no understanding of a way out of that darkness. We work to turn the light on, give them resources and support, and most importantly give them hope. Together, we have the opportunity to bring them into this vital, life-saving conversation. Ultimately, our mission is to eradicate Black Breast Cancer and put ourselves out of a job. Donations of any amount get us one stop closer to this goal, allowing us to impact more lives.