00:02Action!
00:03Until somebody starts doing top-down research in which you start with the deadliest form,
00:10the only deadly form of this disease.
00:12Because if you cure that, you cure everyone.
00:16I'm Champagne Joy and I'm from New York.
00:19Cancerland is a group of women with breast cancer helping women with breast cancer.
00:23I started a hashtag called Cancerland.
00:27We clean people's houses when they're at treatment,
00:30and then we shout from the rooftops about making change in the disease.
00:35And we try to improve the quality of living of women who are going through breast cancer,
00:39and we don't believe anyone should go through it alone.
00:41So metastatic breast cancer means that the breast cancer has spread beyond the breast.
00:46It is now out in your body. It could be in your organs. It can be in your bones.
00:49And it means that it is now a terminal illness and that they have no cure.
00:55I think the biggest shock is there's a public lack of awareness.
01:00They think of breast cancer as done. We gave. That's a curable disease. It's over.
01:04Except for people who are out there, including myself, who say, no.
01:10This is a disease that takes and takes and takes.
01:14It's not just children we're leaving behind. We're so young we're leaving behind mothers.
01:18I won't leave this earth till I see the beginning of change.
01:22I won't see the end of change. But I need to see that beginning.
01:25Or my life meant nothing.
01:27My hope is to see truth lead to research lead to cure.
01:34And until at least the basic knowledge is out that everyone who has breast cancer is at risk of dying
01:40from breast cancer,
01:42because it can come back at any time, until that's known, we can't even start.
01:47True awareness leads to research, which leads to cure, which leads to life.
01:55I've always sort of tied my look into my sense of self.
02:00You know, the whole kind of President of Mars look is something I do in my life.
02:07It may take a lot for me to summon the strength, but if I put my face on, I feel
02:13like me.
02:14I think of beauty as truth, love, and comedy.
02:20People look better when they're smiling. People feel better when they're laughing.
02:24And the worst of it, there's laughter. And that to me is love. And that to me is beauty.
02:29I don't know what makes me champagne joy, but I know that cancer doesn't unmake that.
