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Living Longer with Cancer: Redefining What It Means to Survive
The sixth season of Science Will Win, Pfizer's award-winning podcast, focused on cancer. The six episodes explored the disease from every angle, from its rising incidence in younger populations to the precision medicine tools helping clinicians catch it earlier and treat it more effectively. Host Dr. Raven Baxter delved deep into each topic, interviewing doctors, scientists, researchers, and Pfizer colleagues to glean their insights and discuss the ongoing effort to conquer cancer.To further...
Podcast Highlights Pfizer Foundation’s Mission to Improve Breast Cancer Outcomes
For over 75 years, the Pfizer Foundation, a charitable organization, has worked toward the mission of helping build healthier communities around the world. By investing in locally led organizations and applying a community-centered approach, the Foundation aims to address today’s complex global health challenges, respond to urgent health needs, and empower Pfizer colleagues to make a positive impact where they live, work, and beyond.Launched in 2025, The Pfizer Foundation’s Action & Impact...
Behind the Science: A New Path to Tackling Metastatic Breast Cancer
In recent decades, advances in breast cancer treatment have helped to improve health outcomes for many patients, but scientists remain vigilant in their quest to further reduce both the incidence and impact of the disease. Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women, with about one in eight women in the United States alone diagnosed during their lifetimes.i Metastatic breast cancer, a more advanced and invasive form of the disease, remains a particularly critical area of unmet need...
Why Real-World Learnings Matter for People with Breast Cancer
When people understand basic concepts about their health, they’re better able to make more informed decisions. That’s why we are working to improve health literacy, clarify the language that we use around health topics, and return clinical trials data to participants.A breast cancer diagnosis is life-changing; many people facing this diagnosis look to gather as much information about their prognosis and treatment options as possible. We know it’s not enough for us to simply develop breakthrough...
Working to “Outdo” Cancer: A Multi-Modality Approach to Accelerating the Next Generation of Cancer Breakthroughs
If you caught Pfizer’s exciting commercial that ran during the NFL’s big game in February, you know that we are making a renewed commitment to outdo cancer – nothing is more urgent, or more personal, than our goal to outpace, outsmart, and outmaneuver cancer at every turn. We’re marshaling resources, making new partnerships, and investing in the fight against the many forms of the disease to help people with cancer live longer and better lives. But it won’t be easy.Cancer cells are extremely...
Cancer Survivors' 'Butterfly Club' Network Fosters Support and Partnership
For many cancer survivors, life splits into two stages: before cancer and after cancer. That’s been the case for Lynette Bojko, Pfizer’s Head of Strategic Sourcing & Business Management. She was diagnosed with breast cancer just before her 40th birthday. “Unfortunately or fortunately, cancer is a lot of my identity,” she says. When treatment began, she didn’t want to hide what she was going through at the office, so she talked about it. That openness allowed her to connect with colleagues who...
Making a Global Impact in Breast Cancer Care
Every year, more than 2.1 million people around the world are diagnosed with breast cancer.[1]While the community has seen many advances in the management of breast cancer, we know that innovation in science does not ensure access to care, quality information and needed support. For example, it makes little sense to have the voices of people, so carefully gathered across the early and late stages of R&D, become lost in a thicket of obstacles when it comes to access. When advocating for policies...
Improving Metastatic Breast Cancer Care for Underserved Populations
Globally, breast cancer continues to be the most common invasive cancer in women, and one of the most common forms of cancer overall.1 While significant advances have been achieved, especially in metastatic disease, challenges beyond treatments remain, especially disparities created by structural, socioeconomic, socio-environmental, and biological factors. A recent 2021 publication reveals both the challenges facing underserved patient populations with metastatic breast cancer (mBC) in Europe...
6 Ways to Help Manage Stress After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Pfizer’s Chief Patient Officer, Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall, is partnering with other top health experts for the best tips on how to Get Healthy, Stay Healthy. Originally posted on Thrive Global.When you’re faced with a breast cancer diagnosis, stress levels can quickly reach an all-time high. Uncertainties about the future, worrying about treatment plans, balancing work, finances, and the sheer number of questions that occupy your mind can all play a role in building up this stress. And while there’s...
Breast Self-Exams: Should You Do Them?
For many years, we women were told to examine our breasts at least monthly to check for signs of breast cancer. In medical school, my fellow students and I learned how to teach our patients to examine their breasts. It’s a multi-step process that takes several minutes – checking your breasts in the shower, in the mirror, lying on your back (maybe you’ve seen diagram-heavy brochures -- still a staple in many college and community health centers). But in recent years, some medical organizations...
What Do You Really Know About Metastatic Breast Cancer?
As a public health initiative, breast cancer awareness has been generally successful. Patients, families, physicians, and advocates have worked diligently to make the disease better understood and synonymous with strength, survivorship and scientific breakthrough. With improved screening efforts and increasing numbers of available therapies, breast cancer is often discovered and treated in early-stage; as a result, a steady increase has occurred over the past 30 years in survival rates for...
Breast Cancer in the Workplace
Except for some kinds of skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the U.S. According to the American Cancer Society, about 1 in 8 (12%) women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer during her lifetime. Though possibly due to earlier detection and improved treatments, there is a slight decline in death from breast cancer in recent decades. Currently, there are more than 2.8 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S.With increased detection and survivorship, many...
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