October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This month, we take a look at native assets for training and help for breast most cancers sufferers and survivors.

This 12 months, in gentle of an unlucky gradual however regular uptick in breast most cancers diagnoses, we search to deliver consideration again to the month lengthy observance of breast most cancers consciousness. Breast Most cancers is the second most typical most cancers recognized in ladies, and was accountable for over 55,000 deaths in the usa in 2023.   Males are additionally recognized in a single out of each hundred instances, with a proportional fatality price.  It’s tough for these recognized, in addition to their households and associates, to deal with this scary, life altering sickness. We wished to share academic and well being assets, in addition to native charity occasions and methods to contribute in the neighborhood in help of these preventing this power sickness.

• The nationwide Middle for Illness Management (CDC) provides a useful academic information on most cancers signs, remedies and screenings, and extra.  This may be helpful as a place to begin alongside dialog together with your Physician.
• This web page from the American Most cancers Affiliation additionally highlights various kinds of remedies and the steps for every kind of therapy.
• The Boston Public Well being Fee’s Pink and Black Marketing campaign is an ongoing training and advocacy motion aimed toward supporting ethnic minorities and feminine survivors of breast most cancers.   The web page linked provides quite a few assets and statistics to discover.
• The Most cancers Help Group of Massachusetts provides a assist line, in addition to digital help and wellness teams for survivor, households, and caregivers, in addition to bereavement teams for people who have misplaced a cherished one.
• The Ellie Fund is a Needham primarily based charity that provides data and help for these battling a Breast Most cancers prognosis.  You should definitely examine their occasions calendar for 2024 and past for neighborhood occasions donation .
• The Massachusetts Breast Most cancers Coalition is a neighborhood nonprofit devoted to training and prevention-based advocacy.   They provide their very own academic assets, internet primarily based and in particular person occasions and volunteer alternatives.
• There are extra Breast Most cancers Consciousness occasions occurring within the Boston space, together with fundraisers, networking occasions, dances and social actions, and extra.

For breast most cancers therapy and screening, listed beneath are a number of main hospital providers within the better Boston space:

Have a secure and wholesome month, please attain out to us on the Worker Help Program (EAP) when you’ve got any extra assets or occasions you desire to us to characteristic right here for Breast Most cancers Consciousness Month.