Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is the most aggressive form of breast cancer. In the United States, IBC affects younger women disproportionately and African-American women are diagnosed with IBC at significantly younger ages than Caucasian-American women 1;2 . IBC is characterized by extremely poor survival. Although 3-year survival from IBC has improved from 32% in 1975-1979 to 42% in 1988-1992 from the use of combined treatment modalities 2 , women with IBC still have far worse survival than those with other types of breast cancer (all stages and non-IBC histopathological types combined, 3-year survival=85% in 1988-1992) 2 . Moreover, in an analysis of the trends and patterns in IBC incidence and survival using data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiologic and End Results (SEER) Program, a doubling of IBC incidence in the United States was reported over the past 15 years.
source:
Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation web site.
Patty Schaber
Patty lost her fight with Inflammatory Breast cancer on Thursday, May 15th, 2008.
Her family wishes to keep her legacy and this informational web site alive.
In lieu of flowers, a contribution in Patty's memory can be sent by check or money order to:
Patty's Peeps
P.O. Box 3232
Point Pleasant, NJ 08742
Please check back to this site for further information and share it with all women who need to know more about the the dire threat of Inflammatory Breast Cancer.
Thank you
We are also in the process of adding to and constantly updating this site with new features and information. Please check back frequently.
A note on the name of this site: Patty chose this name for the site because of all the the people, or "Peeps" as she called them, who helped her during her illness and all of the people who are still in need of help.