Join the next telephone networking session for young women with metastatic breast cancer on Tuesday, August 7, 2007, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. (ET).

These sessions are designed to address your specific concerns. Topics discussed include, but are not limited to fears, work, parenting with cancer, being single, communicating with friends and family, and living with ongoing and changing treatment. The evening will be facilitated by Susan Glaser, MSW, Evelyn Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. These calls are open to new and previous participants. For more information and to register for the call, please email your full name to YWABC@youngsurvival.org.

A YSC Demographic Questionnaire is required for participation. If you have not completed this form within the last 6 months, if there are changes to your previous submission, or if you have never completed this questionnaire, please download and complete this form. This form is used to help the facilitator meet your needs, address your concerns, and is required prior to participation. The form also provides ample space for you to include specific issues that you would like to discuss during these sessions.

If you are planning to participate, please email your full name to YWABC@youngsurvival.org . Call-in instructions will be sent upon registration. We hope you can join us!

For women who are have completed their initial course of treatment, are a year or more out from their date of initial diagnosis, or are in ongoing treatment, Thrive offers the Survivorship Group. The group is an informal gathering over a light dinner and drinks where women discuss how breast cancer has impacted their lives. All are welcome to attend. Survivorship Group is typically the 3rd Wednesday of each month and is held in a different Thrive members' home each month. For directions please email info@thrivetogether.org. 

Thrive is dedicated to providing support, services, and education to young women in the greater Boston area who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Join Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) for their next national teleconference, Follow-up Testing: What You Need to Know, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on Thursday, August 16.

Virginia F. Borges, MD, of the University of Colorado Health Science Center, will answer your questions about follow-up testing after initial treatment, including:

• An overview of follow-up testing guidelines and insights into future tests
• Uses or limitations of screening tests
• Emotional impact of follow-up testing
• Routine follow-up tests for other health matters affected by treatment
• Creating a plan to monitor your overall health
• The role of follow-up tests for women with advanced (metastatic) breast cancer

Dr. Borges is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Health Science Center. She specializes in the treatment of breast cancer, and her research interests include the study of new biologic therapies for breast cancer, development of cancer vaccines and improving the quality of life for people affected by breast cancer. In addition to her clinical practice and research efforts, Dr. Borges volunteers as a medical facilitator for Casting for Recovery.

After the presentation, Dr. Borges will answer your questions.

Register online at the LBBC website for this free teleconference.

The YSC NNJ will meet on Tuesday, August 21st, at 6:00 p.m. at Alpha Industries. We will work on programmatic activities as well as local survivor events. We look forward to seeing everyone, so please be sure to RSVP to the meeting via email at yscnnj@youngsurvival.org.

Please make note of the our upcoming meetings - we meet the THIRD TUESDAY of each month! Upcoming dates include:

• September 18
• October 16
• November 20

Directions to Alpha Industries:

Page & Schuyler Avenues, Bldg 8
Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 (201) 933-6000 ext.19

From NJ Turnpike - NJ Turnpike to Exit 16W

Take Route 3 West to Rt. 17 South (Lyndhurst Exit). Follow winding road, Go 2 traffic lights, at 2nd light make left onto Orient Way. At stop sign make left onto Page Avenue Go 300 yards, make left into Industrial park (Schuyler Diner will be right in front of you). Go into Industrial park Bldg. #8 is on your left.

From Route 17 - South Take Route 17 South (almost to end)

Exit at Local Streets (This exit is after Burger King and before you hit Route 3). Stay to your right after you exit and go to light. Make left at light onto Orient Way. Take Orient Way to end. At stop sign make left onto Page Avenue. Go 300 yards, make left into industrial park (Schuyler Diner will be right in front of you). Go into Industrial park Bldg. #8 is on your left.

Young Survival Coalition - Young Women United Against Breast Cancer through Action - Advocacy - Awareness
YSC NJ c/o Alpha Industries
P.O. Box 808
Lyndhurst, NJ 07071

Camp Lightheart is an overnight camp for children between the ages of 8 and 14 who are Hudson Valley residents and have a parent with breast cancer. Sponsored by Breast Cancer Options, Camp Lightheart will be held on the campus of Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. The campers will be in a safe, nurturing and fun-loving environment. Through carefully organized activities, the children will be given frequent opportunity to talk about their individual situations. Because they all have the common bond of a parent with breast cancer, their feelings of isolation or of "feeling different" will be lessened. It is our hope that each child will leave camp feeling less isolated, more supported and most importantly that their hearts will indeed be lightened.

The United Breast Cancer Foundation, in partnership with Omega, has very generously given scholarships to cover the costs of lodging, meals and use of their facilities. The sleep-away camp will run for three and a half days, from 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 21st-1:00 p.m. Friday, August 24th. There is no charge for camp. For more information, call 845-339-HOPE (4673) or visit the Breast Cancer Options website.

Ongoing group for women age 40 and under to discuss issues related to being diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age. Common concerns include: one's changed sense of self, relationship issues, childbearing, premature menopause, professional workplace issues and coping with fears of recurrence. Women may join at any time. Registration is required. You may not register for this program on-line. Please register through the SHARE Breast Cancer Hotline, (212) 382-2111. Call to join any time. Note: Please bring photo id for building entry.

The conference will focus on educating and empowering men to be effective caregivers when breast cancer strikes a female loved one. Men Against Breast Cancer (MABC) will provide a forum for men in similar situation to get to know each other and share their real-life experiences.

Conference objectives:

• Focus on navigating the crisis of breast cancer with a proven problem solving technique.
• Provide an ongoing forum for men in similar situations to get to know each other and develop a support network.
• Improve the quality of survivorship of the patient.

Attendees can expect to learn an innovative, proven, problem-solving technique tailored especially for men supporting women with cancer, which will improve the quality of survivorship of the patient.

This conference will be for the first 65 qualified applicants. By limiting the attendance, attendees will have ample time to practice and master the COPE model by the end of the conference.

MABC is the first national non-profit organization designed to provide targeted support services to educate and empower men to be effective caregivers when breast cancer strikes a female loved one; as well as, target and mobilize men to be active participants in the fight to eradicate breast cancer as a life threatening disease.

Conference registration includes all conference workshops and sessions, complimentary luxury suite seats to an Orioles game, meals and hotel accommodations. The registration fee is $50 before June 25th. For more information, please visit the Men Against Breast Cancer website, where you can access their online conference application.

Guest Speaker DR. Lauren Vigna, voted one of the 80 'best docs' in the Hudson Valley.

Dr. Vigna is an integrative family physician, board-certified in family practice and holistic medicine. With a medical degree from Albany Medical College, Dr. Vigna completed her residency training and a year-long fellowship in Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center's Continuum Center for Health and Healing. Dr. Vigna blends conventional family medicine, functional medicine techniques as well as therapeutic grade essential oils in her practice.

This is a topic meeting at the breast cancer support group and is open to the public Lunch will be provided to those who register.

You are invited to a screening of The Beautiful 8 – Learning to Live with Metastatic Breast Cancer at the Cancer Prevention Building, 1155 Herman Pressler, 8th Floor, Rooms 7 & 8. The event is sponsored by The Beth Sanders Moore Young Breast Cancer Survivors' Program and the Young Survival Coalition Houston Affiliate. Light refreshments will be provided. Space is limited.

RSVP by August 23, 2007, by e-mailing bsmp@mdanderson.org or call Anita Broxson, MSN, RN, BSMP Program Director at (713) 792-8208. If you attend, your parking will be validated. Please park in the Mays Clinic Building, 1220 Holcombe Blvd. Entrance No. 5 on Bertner (between Holcombe and Pressler). Go to www.mdanderson.org/youngbreastsurvivor for parking directions.

The Flatiron Acupuncture Clinic for Breast Cancer Recovery
Sundays at 900 Broadway at 20th Street in NYC
By appointment: 212.254.9534 and 917.538.9636

 
This free weekly clinic held in Midtown Manhattan was made possible by a partnership with Steven Gordon L.Ac., Dipl. Ac. & CH, the Director of the Flatiron Acupuncture & Herbal Health Center. Steven is a New York State Licensed Acupuncturist and Nationally Board Certified in both Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). He specializes in Gynecology and Cancer.

On Friday, October 5, thousands of employees across the United States will be participating in the annual Lee National Denim Day to support breast cancer research and advocacy programs of the National Breast Cancer Coalition.

From August 8^th to September 30th, the Young Survival Coalition (YSC), the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) and advanced breast cancer survivor and patient advocate, Dikla Benzeevi, have partnered together to staff a phone bank to encourage past, present and new companies to participate in this year's Lee National Denim Day.

This is where we need your help! YSC and EIF are looking for volunteers to sign up companies to participate in the annual campaign to support breast cancer. We are looking for volunteers with the following skill set:

• Personable and comfortable talking on the telephone
• Ability to speak passionately about the importance of supporting breast cancer initiatives such as Lee National Denim Day and the Young Survival Coalition.
• Computer and data entry skills.

Volunteers will be working out of the EIF offices in downtown LA (1201 West 5^th Street), and we ask that they commit to a minimum of three hours per shift (shifts are from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.).

For your commitment you will receive a special Lee and YSC gift, and we will provide food and drink during your volunteer time. Additionally, the YSC will be receiving a $10,000 grant for programs and services for young women affected by breast cancer.

We would be delighted to have you participate in this amazing campaign. Your work will allow more research to be done on all women diagnosed with breast cancer so we can find the most targeted treatments and to find a cure for the disease.

If you are interested in volunteering please email Janine Kurmen at janinek@youngsurvival.org with your name, phone and email. We will then have a representative from EIF contact you to arrange for training and your volunteer times.

Sitting in her bedroom in despair and loneliness after a particularly noxious chemotherapy treatment, Jonna Tamases stared at her baby toe and wondered, what is up with my body? How is it dealing with this disease? How is it helping me get through this? Through her imagination and a few inspired aches and pains, the play, Jonna's Body, please hold, came to life.

Take the bizarre ride into the inner world of 'Jonna's Body,' where life's daily chaos is corralled by Pearl, Jonna's loyal, sassy internal receptionist, as she fields calls from a parade of off-beat body parts with never-ending needs.

Jonna's Body, please hold the film version will be screening Labor Day weekend at the Laemmle Theater, Downtown (bottom level of the Marriott Hotel) at 345 S. Figueroa St. in Los Angeles. Pay parking is available across the street at the World Trade Center. Enter the lot from Figueroa St. between 3rd and 4th Streets. Purchase tickets at the theater box office.