MELISSA’S STORY

Grammy^®Award winner, wife, and mother, Melissa Etheridge, knows just how breast cancer can threaten our most precious human relationships. She also knows how it endangers the most precious human relationship of all—the one we have with ourselves. Diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2004, today she is cancer-free. Hers is a success story. She fought breast cancer with all she had. And, she won.

Melissa took her personal battle out of the shadows and into the public eye when she appeared on the 2005 Grammy^® Awards. Having lost her hair from chemotherapy treatments, she took the stage with Joss Stone to sing a cover of Piece of My Heart. Never once showing any signs that cancer had taken her musical prowess or her relentless spirit and drive, the performance showed us a Melissa newly empowered by her fight. It also served as her on-stage initiation rite into a sisterhood of women donning the battle scars of the war against breast cancer. Melissa’s bravery breathed new life into the battle of thousands of women and subsequently opened the door for her music to help make a difference in the fight. http://www.melissaetheridge.com