ABC Global Alliance is a global alliance that includes organizations from different countries to discuss issues of metastatic breast cancer. This movement is led by Dr. Fátima Cardoso, an authority on the subject.
At the last Global Alliance meeting in 2017, 10 priorities were defined to be worked over the next 10 years. The goal is that, at the end of a decade, it will be possible to perceive changes in the health scenario for patients with metastatic breast cancer.
The 10 priorities are as follows:
1. To double the survival average for patients with metastatic breast cancer;
2. To improve the life quality of patients in clinical practice;
3. To improve the quality and availability of disease-related data: progression, recurrence and survival;
4. To increase availability and access to multidisciplinary services, including palliative, supportive and psychosocial care, care for patients, families and caregivers;
5. Make efforts for all patients with metastatic breast cancer to have financial support;
6. To provide training in order to develop communication skills for all health professionals;
7. To provide specific information tools on metastatic breast cancer for each patient;
8. To increase public understanding of this type of cancer;
9. To improve access to non-clinical support services; and
10. To protect labor rights for patients.
Mission against the clock 2018
From June 18 to 20, leaders of civil society organizations from Latin America met to discuss the situation of the patient with metastatic breast cancer and to make a manifesto against time and the Laço Rosa Foundation participated in the event.
Every minute counts is the initiative of Pfizer that aims to share information about metastatic breast cancer.
This meeting defined that of the 10 priorities of the ABC Global Alliance, a cut had to be made to work in the context of Latin America.
The defined goals for Latin America were:
To increase the average survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer;
To increase availability and access to multidisciplinary services, including palliative, supportive and psychosocial care, care for patients, families and caregivers;
To improve the quality and availability of disease-related data: progression, recurrence, and survival.
What is metastatic breast cancer?
It happens when the patient is in a more advanced stage of the disease. That is why special, multidisciplinary care, support networks and reliable information are needed.