Camp Breastie 2026

What does it mean to navigate cancer, survivorship, or high risk while also existing as a member of an underrepresented or marginalized community?

For many Breasties, concerns around healthcare access, safety, visibility, belonging, and uncertainty can feel especially heavy right now. This panel creates space to name those realities with honesty and care — without losing sight of hope.

Together, panelists will explore how identity shapes experiences in healthcare, what it means to care for yourself and your community during difficult moments, and how we continue to move forward while holding fear, resilience, joy, and hope all at once.

Through anonymous audience participation, reflections, and shared experiences, this session invites everyone into the conversation — creating space to feel seen, release what feels heavy, and remember that no one has to navigate this alone.

When cancer enters your life—whether in the form of a diagnosis or an elevated risk—one thing becomes abundantly clear: You don't know what you don't know, until you need it most. 

This empowering panel brings together top voices in medical oncology, cancer imaging, genetics, surgery, and research to help you cut through the noise.

By highlighting the latest developments in cancer screening, risk reduction, and treatment, and providing actionable advice for making sure your voice is heard, you will walk away from this panel feeling confident in your ability to advocate for the best care possible—whatever that means to you. 

 A conversation about parenting through cancer, high risk, survivorship, uncertainty, and everything in between.

Parenting while navigating a cancer or high risk journey can hold so many competing emotions at once: love, guilt, fear, grief, joy, exhaustion, hope, and resilience. Join us for an honest and heartfelt panel conversation about what it means to show up for your children and yourself while navigating diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, recurrence fears, mental health, changing family dynamics, and the unexpected realities that can come with this experience.

Together, panelists will share personal stories, practical insights, and the ways they’ve learned to navigate caregiving, communication, identity, partnership, and emotional wellbeing through the many stages of parenthood and cancer.

Whether you are parenting young children, navigating fertility and future family plans, supporting teens, co-parenting through treatment, or simply carrying the emotional weight of “doing it all,” this session is intended to remind you that you are not alone.

Decisions about research and policy shouldn’t happen without the people most affected.

Join this conversation about how people impacted by cancer can play an active role in advocating for better care in research and policy. We’ll unpack how patients are influencing clinical trials, shaping policy, and pushing for more equitable, inclusive systems. 

You’ll hear real examples, learn where your voice can make a difference, and explore ways to get involved—on your own terms.
Because your experience isn’t just valid—it’s vital.

Cancer reshapes the body in ways that are rarely talked about openly, and the impact on sex, intimacy, and desire is no exception. This panel brings together clinical expertise and lived experience to explore what changes, what remains, and what becomes possible after diagnosis and treatment. From physical shifts to emotional complexity, no topic is off limits. 

Panelists will speak candidly about body image, desire, partner communication, and the grief that can accompany these changes, alongside practical tools and honest perspectives. This is a space for the questions you have carried quietly, held by a community that understands.