Why do breast cancer survivors need your support for rehabilitation and wellness?

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As hoped, most fund raising for breast cancer is directed to research. We all want to have a cure for breast cancer.

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Breast cancer support groups picked up on the lack of health professional support and provided peer to peer support groups as this was a great use of their resources. 

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Hospital based cancer clinics are beginning to offer some rehabilitation support, however this mostly has limited access and limited funding, thus restricting the types of services available.

 

Unfortunately there is a history of extremely limited understanding of breast cancer rehabilitation needs, services and outcomes- as it is a relatively new field. Referral and networking between public hospital and community based service providers has been mostly neglected across the world.

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Service providers who have been working on developing very special services to meet the recovery needs of breast cancer survivors have mostly done so in the private sector. Today, the most common story from these service providers is that often 20 years ago, a close friend or relative confided in their pain and difficulties. So  began their treatment development for them and others. This then led to seeing the need and then developing training programs for other health professionals. 

 

Unfortunately these service providers are micro businesses, they relied on word of mouth, and mostly lacked the energy and resources for advertising.

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These are just a few examples of the barriers. People often feel very lost, unsupported  and unaware of who can help them, after they have completed their cancer treatments (surgery, chemo and radiotherapy). This is a common complaint today at survivorship meetings.

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The importance of supporting people after cancer has been well recognized in UK and America. In America, there was an expectation that by 2016 all cancer survivors receive a plan to incorporate their medical plans and other physical and emotional support services.  To date, I believe that  has not been delivered, leaving  breast cancer survivors from years ago and new breast cancer survivors not having a way of receiving advice about services to support their best recovery.

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From the Summit, expert service providers are offering educational and awareness presentations to turn breast cancer recovery around. We want to offer free access to this information, to any internet user, however we need your support to do this.  

 

 Your support will fund the co-ordination of a web based, up to date and reliable program of speakers to viewers across the world.

 

You can be assured that the speakers are offering the latest information, as they are screened by the project administrator, Denise Stewart. Denise has worked and researched developments in this field for 25 years and has been connecting with international like minded therapists for the last 3 years.

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Your purchase of the web based artwork and link will be available for Aug 2017 - Aug 2018. Your financial support will go towards increasing the distribution of this resource across many countries and the planning for the 2018-9 Summit and Resource.

 

You will appreciate the importance of having up-to date information available to your website visitors and so you will be contacted by July 30 to remove the link from 2016-7 and hopefully you will purchase  the next year's link.

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