The answer is people.  Like the people who gave presentations at a recent symposium held at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. The symposium

These days I’m not so thrilled with the number 4 as in stage 4 cancer.  I hope to change that attitude by finding 1 drug that will attack a number of tumor targets driven by some number of my gene variants.

Many organizations are eager to help firefighters who often put their life on the line helping others.  The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Health System in Miami Florida and Health Longevity Incorporated (HLI) in San Diego California have scientists and staff working with the firefighters.

When I decided to have my whole genome sequenced, Debbie and I looked into a few hospitals and treatment centers that offer such service. We soon learned they had one thing in common. They were all using illumina machines for the testing process.   We were curious about the company and set up a meeting with Sandra Balladares, PhD from illumina marketing.

Bryce Olson, who is a cancer sequencing patient and advocate, was one of the speakers on the “From Fear to Fierce” summit panel. In his discussion, Olson covered all the bases which we promote on cancerbeast.com.

On September 21, 2018 Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden convened a international Biden Cancer Summit and hosted the anchor event in Washington D.C.  With  help from their dedicated staff they put together an amazing event.