Hi guys! I am Lucía, a PhD student at the dos Santos laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Every day, I wake up and I go to lab and I do my little experiments and I wonder if I will ever graduate. But also, every day, I take a step back and think about why I actually do what I do: breast cancer touches everyone’s lives in a way or another. Everyone knows someone who has gone through it. We need to understand how this disease works, and how different life events can affect our risk of developing this disease - for better, or for worse. In our lab, we study the effect that hormone therapies, infections, pregnancy, and more, have in the risk of developing breast cancer. My team has discovered pretty cool stuff so far, but doing science, as absolutely needed as it is, is very, very expensive. Trust me, I am always amazed at how much money is required to properly analyze all of our samples. Any little extra funding helps so much! And I do love swimming, soooo what better way to raise funds for research than cruising through the Glen cove sound!!!!

Anyways, see you out there, thanks for helping fund our research!!!!!! You are the best!!!!!!

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Founded in 1987, Swim Across America has hosted charity swims with one goal: to raise money for innovative cancer research that would lead to breakthrough treatments and therapies. Since then, Swim Across America has raised over $100M to fund the next generation of pioneers in oncology and cancer-support care. 

I joined Swim Across America because I believe in their mission and want to help give more families hope. If you are able, please support me by making a donation to help me reach my fundraising goal.

Thank you for helping me #MakeWavesToFightCancer.