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Abigail Johnston

Patient Advocate

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Abigail Johnston was diagnosed with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer in 2017. She lives in Orlando, Florida. She was trained as a Living Beyond Breast Cancer Hear My Voice volunteer in April 2019.

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Conference advisory committee on why conferences are important, in person or online

06/05/20 | BY: Sheila Marie Johnson, Abigail Johnston, Ruth Pfeffer

This interview was held ahead of our virtual conference on metastatic breast cancer in 2020. The patient advocate advisory committee discusses how conferences can be meaningful to people affected by breast cancer through connection, compassion, and information.

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 | 14 Min. Read |

Using medical marijuana for pain relief: Abigail M. Johnston

12/23/19 | BY: Abigail Johnston, Robin Warshaw

Abigail M. Johnston spoke to LBBC about how using medical marijuana helped her manage side effects from metastatic breast cancer and its treatment without the difficulties she felt with more powerful pain medicines.

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 | 12 Min. Read |

My initiation into a new world

07/30/19 | BY: Abigail Johnston

“We were left with a life that simply did not resemble what had come before; we had been through the fire and emerged irrevocably changed,” Abigail Johnston shares how a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis changed her life.

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 | 8 Min. Read |