In The News.

BAYS members are active in the community. We write, blog, and cartoon about our experiences with cancer. We hike, climb, and fight like hell to raise awareness of breast cancer in young people. Here are some publications about our members and by our members that exhibit the range of our talents.

 

ABOUT OUR MEMBERS


Cancer Survivors Find Support-And Yoga
BY ANDREW STEINGRUBE
Good Times, Santa Cruz (November 8, 2016)

Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer, One Precious Day at a TimeKPFA's Nurse Rona Interview with BAYS Members, Janet Sollod and Catherine Williams.
KPFA (October 31, 2016)

Somewhere Down the Line: A Breast Cancer Muses on her "Totsicles" Tucked Away in an Earthquake-Safe Freezer
BY RACHEL LEHMANN-HAUPT
Medium (October 31, 2016)

B.A.Y.S. talks support and action for young women in SF living with Breast CancerMichelle Griego speaks with Bay Area Young Survivors (B.A.Y.S.) representatives Meaghan Campbell and Catherine Williams during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
YouTube (Original Air Date October 23, 2016)

BAYS members volunteer at the Dorothy W. Erskine Park and BAYS Memorial Garden
BY ELIZABETH WEISE
Glen Park Association (April 4, 2016)

Barrington Natives Find Support while Sharing Their Stories
BY JOSH BICKFORD
EastBayRI (November 17, 2015)

KPFA Podcast with Nurse Rona Renner featuring 2 BAYS Members, Realities of Life for Young Women with Breast Cancer.
KPFA (October 26, 2015)

KPFA Podcast with Terra Verda featuring BAYS Member, Think Before You Pink!
KPFA (October 23, 2015)

Writing your story: the healing power of memoir-writing
BY MARTHA ROSS
San Jose Mercury News (October 22, 2015)

American Cancer Society says start mammograms at 45, not 40
KRON 4 (October 20, 2015)

Terra Verde
BY TERRA VERDE
San Jose Mercury News (October 23, 2015)

Realities of Life for Young Women with Breast Cancer
BY KPFA
KPFA (October 29, 2015)

When breast cancer strikes the young
BY MARTHA ROSS
San Jose Mercury News (October 16, 2014)

Athena Breast Health Forum on Diagnosis
BY Robin Gianattassio-Malle
(September 16, 2013)

Athena Breast Health Forum on Prevention
BY Robin Gianattassio-Malle
Samaritan Mag (April 30, 2012)

Athena Breast Health Forum on Models of Care
BY Robin Gianattassio-Malle
(September 16, 2013)

Cancer Patients Transformed by Gorgeous Henna Dome Designs
BY KIM HUGHES
Samaritan Mag (April 30, 2012)

BAYS at the UCSF Taste for the Cure
New Tang Dynasty Television (November 22, 2011)

Volary "Out of Shadows": Exclusive Interview and Music Preview
by Mikey Jayy
The Great Unknowns Podcast (February 18, 2011)

Fighting Back with Fun and Fitness
Self Magazine (September 2008)

The Stealthiest Cancers
by Paul Raeburn
Self Magazine (February 2007)

Half Dome 2007: The Climb of Our Lives Fundraiser
by Jason Doiy (photo essay)

A Cancer Challenge: Group of Bay Area Survivors Trains to Trek Grand Canyon
by Erin Allday
San Francisco Chronicle (September 4, 2006)

Chronicling Cancer, in Graphic Form
by Melissa Block
NPR, All Things Considered (June 29, 2006)

KQED Forum with Michael Krasny (October 30, 2006)

Humor, Rhymes With Tumor: In This Cartoonist's View of Her Cancer, Nothing Is Immune From Laughter
by Jennifer Huget
Washington Post (May 23, 2006)

Aggressive Breast Cancer Often Not Diagnosed
ABC News 7 (March 8, 2006)

Cancer Help Program: Like a River: The Experience of Deborah Mosley with Breast Cancer
by Michael Lerner
Commonweal Newsletter (December 2005)

Deb Mosley: Keeping the Promise and Fighting Like Hell
by Rebecca Farmer
Breast Cancer Action Newsletter #86 (June 2005)

Exhibiting the Realities of Breast Cancer
by Carrie Spector
Breast Cancer Action Newsletter #78 (September/October 2003)

Fight Like Hell Deb Mosley
by Jason Doiy (video essay)

OUR WRITING

We have published three books sharing our stories as we navigated our breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and life after. You can purchase them on Amazon by clicking the book image below.

 

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BY OUR MEMBERS


5 Years Ago I Walked out of A Look Good, Feel Better Event. Something Needs to Change
BY LAURIE POMERANZ
Breast Cancer Action (October 2015)

Young Women Cancer Survivors Reveal Their Journeys in a New Book: Shivering in a Paper Gown
BY Meaghan Calcari Campbell
Press Release (September 2015)

Dr. Me
BY ANN KIM
Zocalo Public Square (May 2012)

Going It Alone
BY ANN KIM
Saturday Evening Post (August 28, 2012)

Parenting for the Perplexed
BY ERIN HYMAN
J Weekly.com (September 20, 2012)

Against the Grain
by Sarah Lochlann Jain
KPFA.org (January 25, 2011)

Calm Cure: Yogic breathing and gentle poses help keep the body's lymph fluid circulating.
by Michelle Stewardson
Yoga Journal (March/April 2005)

Cancer Butch
by Sarah Lochlann Jain
Cultural Anthropology (2007)

Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person: A Memoir In Comics
by Miriam Engelberg
Harper Paperbacks (2006)

How we wound up topless
by Laurie Hessen Pomeranz
Salon.com (December 4, 2010)

Living in Prognosis: Toward an Elegaic Politics
by Sarah Lochlann Jain
Representations (Spring 2007)

My Cancer and My Son
by Laurie Hessen Pomeranz
The Mother Company (May 12, 2011)

Stories of Courage
by Katie Jozwicki
Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation Newsletter (November 2007)

To the Top of Half Dome and the World
by Jane Bresnick
Survivor’s Review Vol. III

Too Young for Cancer?
by Sarah Lochlann Jain
San Francisco Chronicle (November 18, 2010)

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