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Cancer Resources

What are your favorites? COMMENT here and I'll add them to this page.  Please note that these are in no particular order. 


Breastcancer.org : Discussion board full of helpful women who have been there and are willing and able to answer your questions.  A word of caution though -- if you are like me, you will wander into sections called Palliative Care and read threads called Is it really important for me to die well?  If you can't stay away from reading those threads, which WILL scare the the bejeebers out of you, then stay away entirely.


Pink Ribbon Girls:  An awesome local support group for young women.  When you join, they have a database of people you can contact.  Also, they do cool things like send you fancy birthday cards.


Young Survival Coalition: People love attending their meetings/conferences.


Susan G Komen Foundation:  Really needs no introduction.


Breast Cancer Action: Organization that looks into issues that others don't.  They have a Think Before You Pink campaign that is extremely eye opening.


National Breast Cancer Coalition:  Whereas Komen is focused on support and curing, NBCC is focused on eradication.  I went to a conference in 2010 and learned a lot.


Army of Women:  Dr Susan Love and Avon have teamed up to create a database of people to draw from for research studies.  Also on a mission of eradication, they need women from all walks of life in all areas.  Please consider signing up if you can.


Asbestos.com:  They contacted me with this important information.
The Mesothelioma Center is an up-to-date resource for all mesothelioma (What is Mesothelioma?) issues ranging from mesothelioma statistics to diagnosis options.  Doctors cannot clearly explain why some people develop breast cancer and others do not.  Some doctors have found a higher level of incidence of breast cancer among women who tested positive for the presence of asbestos.