First Celebration of Life event for families of patients enrolled in the Hope for OTHERS program

We held our first Celebration of Life event for families of patients enrolled in the Hope for OTHERS program, a rapid autopsy initiative designed to advance our understanding of treatment resistance and metastatic disease (described in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40537829/). The success of the Hope for OTHERS program depends on key team members including Lori Miller, our clinical coordinator; Alex Chang, an MSTP student serving as our research coordinator; and dedicated patient advocates Christine Desmedt, Stephanie Walker, and Lori Livingston. Through the Hope for OTHERS program, we are collaborating with the UPTIDER program at KU Leuven, led by Dr. Christine Desmedt, to improve our understanding of metastatic ILC. A first combined manuscript is under review (Zels et al: Clinical and histopathological characterization of metastatic lobular breast cancer: lessons learned from post-mortem tissue donation programs).