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The 3 Step Breast Check Shower Card

Raising the awareness of self-breast examination increases the chance of early detection of breast cancer. Results have shown that early detection and diagnosis leads to an increase in survival rates amongst breast cancer sufferers.

An innovative new educational tool, the Shower Card is an attractive and waterproof card, which is suitable for any bathroom. It explains how to check your breasts in 3 easy steps. And it's free! Our aim is to encourage women of all ages to be pro-active in self-breast examination.

The SBCF has distributed more than 20,000 of the cards to schools, chemists, doctor's rooms, medical centres and hospitals in the central Sydney region as well as at our events. The response to the cards has been absolutely fantastic! With the aid of a corporate sponsor, we are hoping to produce enough shower cards to distribute them throughout NSW.

If you would like a FREE Shower Card, please email your name and address to Karen Ward at sbcf@email.cs.nsw.gov.au (available to residents of Australia only).

Sponsorship of the shower cards is available. For more information, please contact Sophie Capodanno on 61 2 9515 6045.

View the 3 Step Breast Check Shower Card.

Your risk and breast cancer

From the National Breast & Ovarian Cancer Centre:

Today women read and hear a lot of information about risk for breast cancer. Get the facts on the important risk factors and calculate your risk for breast cancer compared to another woman of your age...
Calculate your risk of breast cancer using this new online risk calculator

Breast Cancer Network Australia

The Breast Cancer Network Australia is made up of women who have had breast cancer. They inform, empower, represent and link together Australians personally affected by breast cancer.

My Journey Kit

The My Journey Kit is a comprehensive information resource. It has been developed by women who have had breast cancer for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast Cancer Network Australia aims to get the Kit to everyone diagnosed with breast cancer in Australia as close as possible to their diagnosis.

The My Journey Kit is available free of charge to women diagnosed with breast cancer within the last 12 months either online or by phoning the My Journey Kit request line on 1300 78 55 62.

Hope & Hurdles Kit

The Hope & Hurdles Pack is BCNA's new resource for women with secondary breast cancer. It is the result of extensive consultations with women, and with those who treat and care for them. The Pack contains a number of individual items; booklets, brochures, magazines and CDs that offer information, support and hope for women and their families, packaged within a soft plastic satchel.

Women can order their free Hope & Hurdles Pack by calling 1300 887 340 (free call) or by ordering online. A Pack will be delivered within 10 working days.

For more information on any of the BCNAs resources visit www.bcna.org.au

There is much information on the Internet about breast disease and breast cancer and their treatment. We suggest the following reputable sites as a good place to start.

We strongly recommend your speak with your breast cancer doctor or nurse care coordinator about the relevance of any information you find to your own particular situation.

Australian sites

Australian Clinical Trials Registry
A comprehensive source of information about clinical trials being conducted
Australian Institute of Health & Welfare
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare ( AIHW ) is Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics and information.
Aussie Breast Cancer Forum
An online chat room for those affected by breast cancer and for their family, friends, carers and loved ones
Breast Cancer Action Group NSW
aims is to provide a "voice" for breast cancer affected people - wherever decisions about breast cancer are made - within areas of Government, health service
Breast cancer information online
A searchable portal to indexed breast cancer information, developed by women with breast cancer and researchers from Monash University
Breast Cancer in Men
The National Breast Cancer Centre have launched a Breast Cancer in Men website This website is for men with breast cancer, their families and friends and anyone else who would like to know more about breast cancer in men. Breast cancer is uncommon in men, accounting for less than 1% of all breast cancers.
Breast Cancer Network of Australia
A comprehensive source of information and reference material for newly diagnosed and secondary breast cancer patients, including the My Journey Kit and Hope & Hurdles Kit. The BCNA links together over 22,000 individuals and 181 breast cancer member groups across the country.
BreastScreen NSW
BreastScreen NSW is a free government funded breast screening service for all women aged 40+ years which aims to detect breast cancer in its early stages, when treatment can be most effective. BreastScreen NSW has a network of local services across NSW including 40 regional centres and 18 mobile units which continually tour and service remote areas and specific communities within NSW.
Cancer Council of NSW
Information on and support for all types of cancer including breast cancer
Cancer genetics
Genetics information for individuals and family members affected by genetic conditions and the professionals who work with them.
eMJA
The MJA is Australia's leading peer-reviewed medical journal, presenting the latest Australian clinical research, evidence-based reviews and debate and discussion of all the issues that matter in Australian medicine and health care.
Encore YWCA
Encore is an exercise program designed specifically for women who have experienced mastectomy, lumpectomy or breast reconstruction surgery at any time in their lives. YWCA NSW has also collaborated with two Sydney filmmakers to produce YWCA Encore: a Journey Forward, a moving, short film that charts a woman's emotional journey through breast cancer.
Look Good Feel Better
A free national program to help women manage the appearance related side effects of therapies.
Multicultural Communication
The NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (Multicultural Communication) is a statewide service funded by NSW Health. Their role is to facilitate communication between the NSW health system and culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
My Parents Cancer
An interactive site, which aims to help families communicate about cancer by giving teenagers information and advice. The site features an emotion barometer, to help the young people understand the emotions they may be experiencing and carries the important message "You are not alone". Developed by the National Breast Cancer Foundation in conjunction with CanTeen Australia.
National Breast Cancer Foundation
The National Breast Cancer Foundation aims is to ensure better health outcomes for women by funding research that covers every aspect of breast cancer. The foundation is a charity governed by a Board of Trustees.
National Breast & Ovarian Cancer Centre
Extensive information for all women about risk factors, treatment and support . Also extensive information for those diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends plus the new online Breast Cancer Risk Calculator

International sites

The fundraising arm of the Sydney Breast Cancer Institute, one of Australia's leading centres for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of breast cancer.

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