This petition will be presented to the NBCAM Collaborating organizations to change October to Metastatic & Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There is NO CURE for Metastatic Breast Cancer (Stage 4 or mBC). One person dies every 13 minutes from Metastatic BC. Every October there is a group that goes unnoticed in a sea of pink. That group is composed of the men and women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer or mBC. Metastatic Breast Cancer is stage 4 breast cancer where the disease has spread to distant metastases, primarily, to the bone, lungs, lymph nodes, liver and brain. Ironically, Susan G. Komen died of mBC and yet very few people even know that mBC is different from Early Stage, BC. There is no cure for MBC. The median survival after diagnosis is 3 years. There has been no statistically significant improvement in the past twenty years. Only 2-3% of research funds goes to finding a cure for mBC, yet nearly 30% of Early Stage, BC patients metastasize and die.  So, lost in a parade of pink, no one sees the isolation, the despair and the hopelessness of those afflicted with mBC. By referring to October as Metastatic & Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it will raise awareness of mBC, encourage more money towards more mBC research (ideally, 30% for 30%) raise standards of care for ALL stages of BC and end this horrible disease.