   Elaine Bellock
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Elaine Bellock, the Incentra Solutions president who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, was named “Honorary Breast Cancer Survivor” of the year by the San Diego affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
In selecting Bellock, the foundation wanted someone who would share his or her story with others to educate, comfort and inspire. “One of the things I will be doing with the Komen Foundation is attending media events and chatting with people about the importance of infrastructure for those battling breast cancer,” says Bellock. “This disease is no longer a death sentence, as I once thought. For men and women who are battling breast cancer, there is an incredible community of support out there.”
Bellock will be honored, along with 60 other men and women who were nominated in the survivor search, during San Diego’s ninth annual Race for the Cure Nov. 6 at Balboa Park.
“Her story resonates with many people who have been touched directly or indirectly with cancer and provides San Diego residents with an admirable example of how people can live with and overcome breast cancer,” says Sam McDonald, president of the San Diego affiliate of the foundation.
Bellock continued to work as the president of Incentra Solutions while undergoing treatment for the cancer. “It can be very intimidating coming into work with your wig on for the first time,” says Bellock. “But everyone was great at helping me to carry on.”
While Bellock can now boast of being a cancer survivor, she may never be completely out of the woods. “You don’t get an all-clear signal. It’s more of a ‘You’re doing well, let’s see you in six months’ type of attitude,” says Bellock, who recently had a successful check-up with her doctor.
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