NCBC Survivor Advocates

National Consortium of Breast Centers, Inc.
A nonprofit membership organization dedicated to excellence in breast health care for the general public.

Members include breast health professionals who provide direct patient care and corporations and businesses that provide services or products to breast health professionals and their organizations.

Why Join NCBC as an Advocate?
Our goal at NCBC is to ensure that no matter where a patient is diagnosed with breast cancer, they have the same chance of surviving the disease through education, access to technology, and quality care. With over 500 NCBC Facilities across the country, we continue to set the standard in the area of Breast Care.

NCBC VISION
To positively impact quality breast care and improve the experience, satisfaction and outcomes of the breast care patient as well as the care providers while being recognized as the premier organization supporting interdisciplinary Breast Centers in the world.

The corporation is operated exclusively as an educational, scientific and charitable organization within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

5th Annual Survivors & Advocates Summit™

Monday, March 30, 2026 • Huntington Convention Center - Cleveland Ohio
Register Early: Course size limited to 100 Leaders and Advocates
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Our theme for the 5th Annual NCBC Advocacy Summit is “The Pursuit of Balance.” We truly believe that as NCBC joins forces with breast cancer advocates across the country that we can make a significant impact on quality of patient care.

5th Annual NCoBC Survivors & Advocates Summit
March 27-30, 2026, Huntington Convention Center Cleveland, Ohio

As a recognized leader for breast cancer leaders and advocates, you are invited to join NCBC for the 5th Annual Survivors & Advocates Summit™

The roles and responsibilities for leaders, advocates, patients and medical professionals are quickly changing. Be a part of the transformational shift where patients, survivors, and advocates collaborate with breast cancer medical leaders for greater outcomes. As the paradigms in health care shifts, so will the roles of leadership.

Please join us in these historical shifts in paradigms for leadership, advocacy, patient care, survivorship and prevention.

5th Annual NCoBC Survivors & Advocates Summit
“The Pursuit of Balance.”

Everyone benefits when advocates, breast care centers, and communities unite to improve access to advanced breast health education. The 2026 NCBC Advocates Summit will equip breast cancer advocates with tools and resources for effective community collaboration and leadership.

Participants will learn to engage with breast care centers, local media, nonprofits, and survivors to improve breast cancer survivorship outcomes. This program will guide advocates in creating impactful stories to help drive and cultivate community support.

View/Download Summit Syllabus

For additional questions, contact Sylvia Powers at Sylvia@Breastcare.org

To register for the 5th Annual Survivors & Advocate Summit please contact contact Aerial Gilbert at aerial@breastcare.org

Nominations are NOW OPEN for the NCBC Heart of Advocacy Award.
The National Consortium of Breast Centers and the Breast Cancer Wellness Magazine are excited to announce that nominations for the NCBC Heart of Advocacy Award are open.

You are invited to nominate yourself or someone you know for the NCBC Heart of Advocacy Award.

Please review the guidelines and nomination form below. Submission requirements must be received by midnight EST January 31, 2026.

To enter or to nominate someone else

Congratulations Cheri Ambrose
2025 NCBC Heart of Advocacy Award
Founder & President for Male Global Breast Cancer Alliance.

For more than a decade, Cheri Ambrose has been a fighter and advocate for men with breast cancer and their families. She has worked closely with researchers, oncologists, pharmaceutical representatives and like-minded advocacy partners to ensure that men with breast cancer receive equal access to support and treatment. In 2014, she founded the Male Breast Cancer Coalition to be a “first-of-its-kind” virtual gathering place, as well as a “central” source of information, guidance and support.

In November 2021, recognizing the organization’s expansion as a worldwide leader for male breast cancer survivors and volunteers, and its growing commitment to a wide spectrum of cancer-related advocacy and awareness campaigns, Cheri launched the Male Breast Cancer Global Alliance (MBCGA). Its redefined mission is to bring together men with breast cancer, researchers, clinicians and oncologists around the world for the purpose of advancing research, clinical trials and treatments for men diagnosed with breast cancer.

A passionate, “hands-on” advocate, Cheri has persuaded drug companies to include men in the labeling of medications targeted at women with metastatic disease, has been instrumental in getting men into multiple clinical trials that had previously been open only to women, and has trained and developed hundreds of MBCGA survivor representatives to assist with advocacy work and educate diverse audiences on a global scale.

She continuously works to forge and foster relationships between researchers around the world to facilitate their collaborative efforts toward developing life-saving treatments for breast cancer and metastatic disease.

Become a NCBC Lay Breast Cancer Survivor Advocate

Hear from Laura Carfang as she shares her personal story on becoming a NCBC Lay Breast Cancer Survivor Advocate and the impact her advocate role is playing in her community.

NCBC Founder Barbara Rabinowitz, PhD, MSW, FNCBC	NCBC President Jennifer Plichta, MD	NCBC Executive Director Kimberly Bolin, BS, ARDMS, ARRT, RT(R)(M)	Molly MacDonald Editor in Chief The Publisher is Pink Fund

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