Founding of LBCA, the first patient advocacy group focused on ILC.

Dr. Steffi Oesterreich and Leigh Pate became good friends (and Leigh became a fierce yet humble ILC patient advocate). They had many phone calls and some in-person meetings discussing how to drive ILC research forward. Other patients who had joined the 1st ILC Symposium in 2016 in Pittsburgh joined in (such as Lori Pettiti) – and the Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance (LBCA) was born. Dr. Steffi Oesterreich served as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board until 2022.