JAN 2012 

METS MATTERS

INFORMATION FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH METASTATIC BREAST CANCER 

In This Issue
Resolutions for a New Year
Support Groups & Hotline
Friends & Family
Upcoming Programs/Conferences
The Battle We Didn't Choose

Quick Links

Kathy on Phone

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Additional Resources 

Transportation Assistance

ACS Road to Recovery

888-227-6333

 

Medication Assistance

Medication Health Wellness Foundation

800-675-8416

 

Call Breast Cancer Hotline Coordinator  

Donna Faranda for additional resources:

212-937-5577 

 

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Our goal is to help you gain insight into the clinical trials process and make it easier and faster for you to find the clinical trials that are right for you.

 

The Group Room

Vital Options International produces The Group Room, Advocacy in Action and other media projects. Vital Options is a not-for-profit cancer communications, support, and advocacy organization with a mission, to facilitate a global cancer dialogue. Click on the above link and scroll down to "advocacy in action" to see what leading metastatic advocates are doing and saying. 

Do the New Year Resolutions of those with MBC differ from others? 

Or are they the same?

 Christine Benjamin, LCSW   

JanusWith the start of a New Year, as well as pivotal changes in SHARE'S leadership on the way, we - the staff - have been evaluating our programs, tightening our budgets, reshaping old goals and creating new ones. We are, in essence, making our professional resolutions for the New Year.  Thinking about my own personal resolutions as well as the resolutions of women living with metastatic breast cancer, I began a thoroughly unscientific quest for information about the personal resolutions of those living with MBC as well as the origin of New Year Resolutions themselves. Here's what I found out:

New Year's Day celebrations began in pre-Christian times, starting with the Babylonians during the month of March, but later changed to January by the Romans. January, as you might know, gets its name from Janus, the two-faced god who looks simultaneously backwards into the old year, and forward into the new. Janus was also the patron and protector of arches, gates, doors, doorways, and endings and beginnings. He was also the patron of bridges. A double- headed statue of Janus still sits today on the Roman bridge Ponte Fabricio, which spans over the Tiber River to Tiber Island, where it has stood since its construction 62 BC, during the time of Julius Caesar. Even now, it is widely believed that if you touch the Janus head as you cross the bridge, it will bring good fortune.

 

The custom of making "New Years resolutions" began during this period in Rome, where their thoughts usually turned to resolutions with a moral flavor, often promising to treat others with respect and kindness. This custom had varying degrees of popularity over the centuries, and some Christians hesitated to observe New Year practices associated with honoring a pagan god. Read more HERE

 

(the above history of resolutions is adapted from www.billpetro.com)  

Groups

METASTATIC SUPPORT GROUPS AND HOTLINE INFO

 

ONE-TO-ONE SUPPORT: speak with another woman living with metastatic disease.  Call the SHARE Hotline @ 212-382-2111.

 

TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP:  Every Monday, 4-5 PM Click HERE 

 

IN PERSON DAYTIME SUPPORT GROUP:  First 3 Thursdays of the month.  12-1:30 PM  Click HERE for more information. 

 

IN PERSON EVENING GROUP: LIVING WITH UNCERTAINTY  

Monthly on Wednesdays, 6-7:30 PM.  Jan 18, Feb 15, Mar 21, April 18.  Click HERE

 

You must register.  Call the Hotline to register in advance for support groups.   

 

In Person groups meet at the SHARE office.  1501 Broadway. Suite 704A, New York, NY 10036.  Broadway between 43rd & 44th Street.  

 

Click HERE  to see additional SHARE programs.   

Friendsfamily

FRIENDS & FAMILY 

   

African American Couple
Did you know there is a Men's Group to support men as they support their wives, partners, daughters, friends and significant others?   Call the Hotline 212-382-2111 for more information and to register. 

 

 

ProgramsConferencesUPCOMING PROGRAMS & CONFERENCES
 
Hear medical and advocacy perspectives on the latest breast cancer research, clinical trials, and treatment strategies presented at the internationally renowned San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.  Dr. Rick Mickaelson, Chief Medical Officer for Oncology, Cancer Center of Saint Barnabas Hospital, and SHARE advocates will interpret the findings, answer questions and dicuss what the research results mean to us.

SHARE Main Office, 1501 Broadway, 704A
Wednesday January 25, 2012 6:00 - 7:30 PM. 


Musa Mayer spoke at SHARE about the First International Consensus on Metastatic Breast Cancer in Lisbon in November.  The goal of the conference was to begin to develop guidelines for treatment of metastatic breast cancer.  The conference was founded by Fatima Cordozo of Lisbon with Larry Norton, Eric Winer and others.  To see a video of Musa, click HERE.

Click HERE for SHARE's website. 

The new SHARE calendar is available.  Click HERE to see calendar online.

VolunteerVOLUNTEERS
WHAT METASTATIC VOLUNTEERS ARE DOING AT SHARE

Volunteers are always needed for the hotline and peer matches.  Contact Donna Faranda for more information:  212-937-5577 
The Battle We Didn't Choose
 My Wife's Fight With Breast Cancer...A documentary Photo Exhibit

Photographer Angelo Merendino photographed his wife Jen as she dealt with breast cancer. The photos will be on display at The Lower Eastside Girls Club, 56 E. 1st Street on Thursday January

26, 2012 from 11 AM - 8 PM.  This is a fund raiser to benefit The Lower Eastside Girls Club.  Can't make it to the exhibit?  Check out Angelo's site HERE. 


Angelo & Jen

 

Mission ABOUT SHARE 

SHARE's mission is to create and sustain a supportive network and community of women affected by breast or ovarian cancer. We bring these women and their families and friends together with survivors to provide participants with the opportunity to receive and exchange information, support, strength and hope.   

 

SHARE provides telephone support, support groups, educational programs and advocacy opportunities.  All services and programs are free.   


Sincerely,

Christine Benjamin LCSW
Metastatic Program Coordinator

[email protected]  

212-937-5586

  

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