Within the second a part of CURE’s Breast Most cancers Consciousness Month webinar sequence, we centered on how sufferers with breast most cancers can empower one another.
We partnered with Susan G. Komen Basis and Roswell Park Complete Most cancers Heart to debate how sharing tales with different sufferers with breast most cancers may help the group empower themselves at analysis, therapy and thru survivorship. We spoke with Miranda Zinn, Helpline Navigator for the Breast Most cancers Helpline at Susan G. Komen Basis, and Jomary Colon, Neighborhood Outreach and Engagement Supervisor at Roswell Park Complete Most cancers Heart, to be taught extra about this subject.
Abstract:
0:10 — Empowering Different Sufferers With Breast Most cancers
- Sharing experiences with different sufferers with breast most cancers and survivors will be empowering and informative.
- Constructing a supportive group, whether or not by means of assist teams or peer-to-peer connections, may help sufferers and survivors really feel much less alone and extra empowered.
- In some cultures, there could also be a stigma surrounding most cancers, making it tough for sufferers and survivors to debate their experiences. Open communication and assist may help break down these limitations.
4:03 — Sharing Experiences and Offering Assist
- Volunteering at organizations or collaborating in group teaching programs permit sufferers and survivors to share their experiences and encourage others.
- Sharing tales on-line (written, blogs, podcasts) or leaving inspirational messages throughout the group permits for non-traditional methods to attach and supply hope.
- Whereas assist teams are helpful, there are numerous methods to have interaction with the breast most cancers group, like sharing tales on platforms or participating in artistic acts of assist.
6:36 — Making a Protected and Supportive Setting
- Reaching out by means of private connections and group facilities is essential, particularly in communities the place social media use could also be much less prevalent.
- Assist teams and private interactions ought to foster confidentiality and empathy to encourage sufferers and survivors to share their tales brazenly.
- Supporters can present empathy by actively listening, validating emotions and permitting house for processing.
8:43 — Obtainable Sources
- Roswell Park Complete Most cancers Heart and different most cancers facilities supply survivorship clinics, wellness applications and different applications that could be aimed in direction of explicit affected person populations.
- Navigators can also assist with appointments, training and useful resource entry (wigs, magnificence salon).
- There are additionally on-line assets and cellphone assist, along with Fb teams and peer-matching providers for one-on-one assist.
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