Excerpt from article above, click on header to read full story * Two years later, in 2017, I was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. This time, I vowed that I would not make rash emotional decisions. Instead, I became a detective, obsessively researching my disease and treatment possibilities. I sought out patients who had been through clinical trials to learn about the different trial phases. I cold-called researchers to pick their brains about the latest hypotheses and how their work could apply to my heterogeneous tumor biology.