stage 4

Knowledge is Power: One Student’s Mission to Make a Difference

Last month we announced the winners of the 2015 Side-Out Ambassador Program Awards. As part of the process, scholarship applicants submitted essays that addressed the following questions: What did they learn from their educational hours? How did they pass their knowledge on to others? How did this experience make them feel and why? Did they …

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Oakton High School Raises Nearly $12,000 at Dig Pink® Rally Oakton Freshmen

Oakton High School Raises More Than $12,000 at Dig Pink® Rally

FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 20, 2015 — The Oakton High School girls volleyball teams hosted their 10th Annual Dig Pink® Rally yesterday, raising more than $12,000 for The Side-Out Foundation, which supports metastatic breast cancer research. Side-Out has raised nearly $10 million in 10 years, with much of these funds coming from Dig Pink® events hosted …

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Beyond the Disease: Getting to Know the Patients Holley Kitchen

Beyond the Disease: Getting to Know the Patients

This week, we focused our blog posts on metastatic breast cancer, also known as stage 4 breast cancer. We shared facts about the disease (Learning More About Metastatic Breast Cancer), addressed why stage 4 patients feel marginalized within the breast cancer community (Bringing Metastatic Breast Cancer Out of the Shadows) and touched on the lack …

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