Inflammatory Breast Cancer Association
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer Association
The Inflammatory Breast Cancer Association (IBC Help) is a cancer organization headquartered in the United States with volunteers from throughout the World. It is a voluntary cancer organization dedicated to eliminating inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) as a major health problem by preventing IBC, saving lives, and diminishing suffering through education, research, advocacy, and service.
The organization provides information about the unique signs/symptoms of this deadly and deceptive disease, and information about the chemotherapy, surgery, and radiotherapy that most patients receive, and patients' encouraging stories, an informative forum, a supportive e-mail list, a dictionary of applicable cancer terms and abbreviations, and much more.
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