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Some of my favourite resources....
"Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book"
Now in its third edition! Peg & I would take Susan's book to bed with us.
Frank, informative, accessible...totally trustworthy. We couldn't have gotten
through it all without this book! Buy one for yourself, for your care providers,
for anyone you know living with breast cancer!
Willow
Started out as an Ontario initiative to provide the maximum of information
and support possible by peers to assist women with decision-making. Lots
of info for residents of Ontario but also useful stuff for the rest of us
as well. Great link page. They are situated at:
785 Queen St. East,
Toronto M4M 1H5.
Toll-free 1-888-778-3100 or 416-778-5000.
www.willow.org
The
Canadian Cancer Society
Sponsors a toll-free, bilingual Cancer
Information Line providing the latest information
1-888-939-3333.
Patient
No More,
The Politics of Breast Cancer by Sharon Batt
Feminist
journalism at its best - this book presents an extraordinary amount of
medical, historical, and personal material in a style as gripping as a
novel ... a brilliant analysis. - Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, National
Women's Health Network
EXPOSURE: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer
This video hosted by singer, activist Olivia Newton-John is an
excellent working tool that deals with a variety of environmental
health related issues including pesticides, chlorine, plastics,
radiation, mammography, tomoxifen and the medicalization of
prevention, air quality, etc. To receive information on how to order
e-mail Women's Health & Environments
Network.Women's Health &Environments
Network.
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Some of my favourite web sites are....
Dr. Susan Love's site...don't do anything until you've visited this site!
www.susanlovemd.com
A great site for young women and breast cancer.
www.yme.org
A wonderful international community of women living with breast cancer. They talk to each other all the time and even meet face to face once a year! This listserv was started here in Newfoundland by Dr. Jon Church.
www.bclist.org
The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the people who hold all the money from the Run for the Cure in Canada and they give it out for great projects!
www.cbcf.org
The Mautner Project is a wonderful organization dedicated to Lesbians and cancer.
www.mautnerproject.org
Oncology.com is a comprehensive on-line source of cancer information for cancer patients, health care professionals and the entire cancer community. These are the people who gave away 1000 copies of "My Left Breast" after Gerry's appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. (All of which went right away!)
www.oncology.com
All these sites will lead you to even more...
A great search engine is www.google.com!
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