Media

BAYS members have spoken about their experience navigating breast cancer diagnosis as a young person through many channels. Let us know how you tell your story too!

If you’d like to interview us or have us speak, please email us at hello@bayareayoungsurvivors.org

Our Writing

We have published four books sharing our stories as we navigated our breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and life after. You can purchase them on Amazon by clicking the book image.

In the News

BAYS members are active in the community. We write, blog, and cartoon about our experiences as young people with breast cancer to share our stories with others. We hike, climb, and fight like hell to raise awareness of breast cancer in young people. Here are some publications about our members and by our members that exhibit the range of our talents.

About the Memorial Garden

Bay Area Young Survivors to Dedicate Nation’s First Public Memorial Honoring Young Lives Lost to Metastatic Breast Cancer

BY BAYS-MITC (April 15, 2025)

About Our Members

Cancer Survivors Find Support-And Yoga

BY ANDREW STEINGRUBE
Good Times, Santa Cruz (November 8, 2016)

Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer, One Precious Day at a Time

KPFA’s Nurse Rona Interview with BAYS Members, Janet Sollod and Catherine Williams.
KPFA (October 31, 2016)

Somewhere Down the Line: A Breast Cancer Survivor Muses on her “Totsicles” Tucked Away in an Earthquake-Safe Freezer

BY RACHEL LEHMANN-HAUPT
Medium (October 31, 2016)

B.A.Y.S. talks support and action for young women in SF living with Breast Cancer

Michelle Griego speaks with Bay Area Young Survivors (B.A.Y.S.) representatives Meaghan Campbell and Catherine Williams during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
YouTube (Original Air Date October 23, 2016)

Barrington Natives Find Support while Sharing Their Stories

BY JOSH BICKFORD
EastBayRI (November 17, 2015) )

KPFA Podcast with Nurse Rona Renner featuring 2 BAYS Members, Realities of Life for Young Women with Breast Cancer.

KPFA (October 26, 2015)

KPFA Podcast with Terra Verda featuring BAYS Member, Think Before You Pink!

KPFA (October 23, 2015)

Writing your story: the healing power of memoir-writing

BY MARTHA ROSS
San Jose Mercury News (October 22, 2015)

Terra Verde

BY TERRA VERDE
San Jose Mercury News (October 23, 2015)

Realities of Life for Young Women with Breast Cancer

BY KPFA
KPFA (October 29, 2015) )

When breast cancer strikes the young

BY MARTHA ROSS
San Jose Mercury News (October 16, 2014)

Athena Breast Health Forum on Diagnosis

BY ROBIN GIANATTASSIO-MALLE
(September 16, 2013)

Athena Breast Health Forum on Prevention

BY ROBIN GIANATTASSIO-MALLE
Samaritan Mag (April 30, 2012)

Athena Breast Health Forum on Models of Care

BY ROBIN GIANATTASSIO-MALLE
(September 16, 2013)

Volary “Out of Shadows”: Exclusive Interview and Music Preview

BY MIKEY JAYY
The Great Unknowns Podcast (February 18, 2011)

A Cancer Challenge: Group of Bay Area Survivors Trains to Trek Grand Canyon

BY ERIN ALLDAY
San Francisco Chronicle (September 4, 2006)

Chronicling Cancer, in Graphic Form

BY MELISSA BLOCK
NPR, All Things Considered (June 29, 2006)

Humor, Rhymes With Tumor: In This Cartoonist’s View of Her Cancer, Nothing Is Immune From Laughter

BY JENNIFER HUGET
Washington Post (May 23, 2006)

By Our Members

Wildfire Magazine: Bay Area Young Survivors

In spring of 2021, BAYS teamed up with Wildfiremagazine to publish an issue exclusively composed of stories from BAYS members. Wildfire founder, April Stearns, is a BAYS member. Click the link below to access this issue.