Marie Arsenault, Metastatic Patient, Talks About the Need for a Cure, Not Awareness

This Breastcancer.org podcast features Marie Arsenault, a former music promoter and booking agent, who was first diagnosed with stage II estrogen-receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer in September 2000 at age 36. She had mastectomy with TRAM flap reconstruction, chemotherapy, and radiation. In May 2007, she was diagnosed with metastatic disease; the breast cancer had returned in her liver and bones. In 2011, the cancer spread to her bone marrow. Listen to the podcast to hear Marie talk about: how she feels during Breast Cancer Awareness Month what she would like people to know about metastatic breast cancer how her support network helps her stay positive through treatment her volunteer work with the Tenth Life Cat Rescue in St. Louis