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Oct 2013

         MBC Alliance launches on National
         Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day;
 Nov 2012   Jun 2013   members now include CancerCare, Dr.
         Susan Love Research Foundation, Sisters
 Breast cancer nonprofits join MBC   Mission and goals are adopted;   Network Inc., Eisai and Novartis  Jun - Aug 2014
 advocates to discuss how to increase   governance approaches are
 MBC awareness and improve the lives   considered; landscape analysis is         American Cancer Society Cancer
 of people living with MBC; all agree that   identified as first initiative;       Action Network, Patient Advocacy
 through collaboration, far more can be   Breastcancer.org, Breast Cancer   Dec 12, 2013   Foundation, and Eli Lilly join the
 achieved than by individual   Research Foundation, Genentech,                   MBC Alliance; all current 29
 organizations; MBC Alliance is formed   and Pfizer join  San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium   members meet to consider draft
 with support from Celgene   Alliance members meet to review the landscape       key recommendations for the
 Corporation              analysis methodology; working groups are formed        Alliance and next steps;
                                                                                 governance model is formalized


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                                     Jan - May 2014
 Aug 2013                                                                                                Oct 2014
 Feb 2013
 Avon Foundation                     Landscape analysis work continues;                      Results of the landscape
 Early members are   for Women becomes   membership reaches 26 with the addition of        analysis are released along
 AdvancedBC.org, Cancer Support   the Alliance’s   BreastCancerTrials.org, Inflammatory Breast   with actions for the MBC
 Community, FORCE, Living Beyond   administrative home    Cancer Research Foundation, Nueva Vida,   Alliance through 2016
 Breast Cancer, Metastatic Breast   with Dr. Marc Hurlbert   Sharsheret, and Triple Step Toward the Cure
 Cancer Network, Research   as project leader
 Advocacy Network, SHARE, Susan   Nov 2013
 G. Komen, Triple Negative Breast
 Cancer Foundation, and Young   MBC Alliance project director is
 Survival Coalition  appointed; work begins on the
                 landscape analysis; all members
                 meet for the first time
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