Allegra Bancroft Warfield
Breast Cancer Advocate | Systems Consultant | Speaker
Through empathy, systems thinking, and lived experience, Allegra is advocating for a future of breast cancer defined by collaboration, transparency, and humanity.
Meet Allegra
Allegra seeks to honor what breast cancer treatment often ignores: the woman she was before the disease tried to define her.
In January 2024, a phone call changed everything. The voice on the other end told her she had Stage 3 Luminal B breast cancer and advised her to “Google” her options. Refusing to be dismissed, she spent sleepless days and nights researching, writing analyses for her doctors, and redesigning her own treatment plan. When her tumor stopped responding, she pressed for alternatives beyond the standard of care. Through that process she discovered a PALB2 mutation and generations of unspoken silence among the women in her family. From that reckoning she built a new compass guided by science, spirit, and the conviction that every woman with breast cancer deserves to be guided, seen, and heard.
Before becoming an advocate, Allegra worked on Wall Street and consulted for Fortune 500 companies, studying how systems succeed and fail. She later applied those same diagnostic skills to transforming family systems. Today she brings that dual fluency of strategic clarity and human insight to help both patients and organizations navigate the complexities of healthcare. A graduate of the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s Project LEAD science advocacy program, she stands at the intersection of data and humanity, translating research into the language of care and connection. Her mission is simple: to return heart to a system that lost its own and to partner with researchers, advocates, and women ready to help rebuild it.
“They told me to Google my options. So I did. Then I rewrote them.”