Metastatic Breast Cancer Network

  Voices Newsletter

October 2011

 

 Greetings!  

 

Michele
In a month filled with pink ribbons and emphasis on awareness and early detection, we are not forgotten. Here are some events just for us.  

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!  
  • October 13 Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. We worked to have the day recognized by Congress in 2009 and we're still working to get the message out.  Print out the 13 FACTS and pass it on. Include them in a letter to the editor of your local news.   

  • October 29 MBCN Conference in Baltimore. We hope you can join us. Print out this FLYER and bring it to your support group, post it at your Cancer Center or oncologist's office.
  • IMPORTANT: if you've registered for the conference, but unfortunately have to cancel, please email us as soon as possible.
Let our voices be heard.

 

Thank you,  

Michele Przypyszny, President   

mbcn.org 


October Events - other BC organizations

  

  • October 7  Cancer Care teleconference on Caring for Your Bones with Dr. Hope Rugo   
  • October 12 LBBC Teleconference on MBC Treatment Options with Dr. George Sledge
  • October 13 YSC and Cancer Support Community Webinar on Addressing the Needs of Young Women with Advanced Breast Cancer 
  • October 13 Cancer Care Teleconference on Progress in Treatment of MBC with Dr. Ruth Oratz   
  • October 24 LBBC Teleconference on Benefits of Palliative Care with Dr. Jamie Von Roenn  

Replays available for most shows

 

More information... 

  

 

Featured Story: Lynn
Lynn
Lynn
"I'm a positive person at heart"

It was the morning of 9/11. The Twin Towers were on fire and I was in my doctor's office having just been diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. There I was, watching the disaster unfold on TV while having to accept breast cancer. I had just turned 45 and the world was falling apart...

   

 

 
 
MBCN is a national, independent, patient-led, nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to the unique concerns of the women and men living with metastatic breast cancer. We strive to help those living with stage IV breast cancer be their own best advocate through providing education and information on treatments and coping with the disease.

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think
With all the October pink sales, which ones are worthy of support and which are "pink washers?"  Good advice from Breast Cancer Action. Read it and pass it on to your friends and family.
ihatebreastcancer
KOB portrait
Read the i hate breast cancer blog of MBCN member, Katherine O'Brien. She is insightful, humorous and compelling in her effort to get the facts out about metastatic breast cancer. 
  
Free publication
Advanced Breast Cancer BookThe Cancer Support Community is pleased to announce the 3rd edition of the booklet:
 
Frankly Speaking About Cancer: Advanced
Breast Cancer 

To order call 888.793.9355 or go to: CancerSupportCommunity.org  

Living with MBC
"I have experienced
quiet desperation,blatant fear, intense discomfort, rage, confusion and
profound sadness.     
      I have also found hope, experienced laughter and connectedness.

      I do my best to take a realistic approach to my illness. I work to accept that metastatic breast cancer is likely to shorten my life; in doing so, I accept the reality of grief and loss. I think that compartmentalizing things

works to channel pain, so that pain's intensity is controlled, diverted and made less destructive."

 

 

--MBCN Board member Joani Gudeman from LBBC Fall Insight Newsletter