BCRF Hot Pink Party Boston

The wonderful folks at the Kelly Care's Foundation invited myself and my BF to join them at the BCRF Hot Pink Party Boston for a night of dinner, dancing and celebration of of heroes, fundraisers and a whole lot of survivors.

I had heard of the BCRF (Breast Cancer Research Fund), but was unaware of the phenomenally great work they do. The BCRF is committed to being the end of breast cancer though research. It was founded in 1993 by Evelyn Lauder and has been involved in many breast cancer breakthroughs. These are the people involved in getting herceptin chemotherapy clinical trials rolling. Herceptin has been a game changer for folks with HER2+ breast cancer, as the diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. They have also funded the research to prevent over treatment of early stage estrogen based cancers and helped developed care paths as not everyone needs to have chemotherapy and still experiences the same outcomes. More of the amazing progress this institution can be found here.

Needless to say, once I realized the magnitude of work that the BCRF has done and is doing, we were even more excited to attend. And as you can see (above) it was a great event. They honored a breast cancer survivor, who has also overcome the death of a child and colon cancer after finishing treatment for breast cancer. It was inspiring to hear how she not only continued to get up day after day and continued to support not only her family, but also help continued to help others as they went through breast cancer treatment. Very self less.

It was fun to be part of the celebration of all the great research that they do in the Boston area. The BCRF has awarded more than $7 million in grants this year to research in the region. It was also empowering to be surrounded by so many breast cancer survivors and their support systems. It was amazing to be in a room full of people who understand science and believe that research with be the end of breast cancer. 

The night capped off with dancing and dessert with music by Nile Rodgers. Nile Rodgers is a Grammy award winning composer, producer, arranger and guitarist. And....he is also a cancer survivor. He produced a wide breadth of hits "Le Freak"  and "Good Times" as member of CHIC, David Bowie's "Let's Dance", and Sister Sledge "We are Family". It was a spectacular to dance to "We are Family" with one of it's producer's preforming it with a room full of breast cancer survivors...the line "I've got all my sisters with me". 

What a fun event for an organization that uses 91 cents of every dollar donated toward either research or raising awareness. I'll be excited to see what comes out of the research funded by the BCRF in the future and their goal to #BetheEnd.