The National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) is hosting an online chat tonight called "Living Well with Advanced Breast Cancer"

The chat will focus on the progress that has been made – both in treating advanced breast cancer and in the attitudes and coping strategies of women living with the disease. Hosted by Oxygen’s ThriveOnline Web site, the chat will be held from 9 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. ET.

Questions from a national Web audience will be answered live by these experts:

• Katherine Russell Rich, author of The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer – and Back, a best-selling account of the writer’s diagnosis with advanced-stage breast cancer and her evolution from a passive patient into an advocate for her own health and survival.
• Jeffrey Abrams, M.D., from the division of cancer treatment at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The NCI supports clinical trials nationwide and is currently investigating more than 200 new breast cancer treatment approaches.
• Amy Langer, executive director of NABCO, a 15-year breast cancer survivor who is a nationally-known patient advocate and a member of public and private advisory boards and committees on breast cancer.

The American Cancer Society is a member of NABCO – a nonprofit education and information resource and patient advocacy organization. The chat comes in advance of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. The nationwide campaign focuses on increasing awareness of breast cancer issues, especially early detection.