Joan Mancuso has been living with metastatic breast cancer since 2007. She was originally diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2003. Her MBC presented as a lung metastasis and then again with a second lung metastasis and also a brain metastasis in 2008. She has been without any sign of MBC since 2008 and discontinued treatment in 2020 based on medical advice. For over a decade, Joan has been involved in many breast cancer projects. She is currently an advocate member of ASCO and a member of their TAPUR Publications Group, including a team to develop Plain Language Summaries for TAPUR reports. Joan is a co-author of ASCO’s recent update of its Policy Statement on Biosimilar and Interchangeable Products in Oncology. She has been a member of the planning committee and speaker at the Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Conference’s annual meeting as well as an advocate member of the Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium with Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania. The TBCRC develops and conducts phase II clinical trials. She is a consumer reviewer for the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program and has been an advocate on many scientific grant proposals at major cancer centers. Through SHARE Cancer Support Joan has been interviewed on talk radio to raise MBC awareness during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Joan stepped down from employment in 2009. She was a special reports editor on a news desk for financial news.