Komen Resources in Colorado Springs (http://komen.ppld.org/)
Take a look at this new local directory of breast health resources organized by your needs and mapped for your convenience. The directory was put in place through the efforts of students and faculty of Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Komen volunteers, Komen administration, Pikes Peak Library District and the Pikes Peak Breast Health Connection. You will find resources related to these topics: Cultural and Ethnic, Diagnosis and Treatment, Education, Financial, Services and Supplies, and Support.
Are you looking for an active discussion forum to talk about your diagnosis, treatments, or day to day experiences? Breastcancer.org may be just the place for you. With 60 forums and more than 66,000 members, breastcancer.org covers a wide variety of breast health topics. Many discussions have posts hours or even minutes old.
To review open discussion topics click the following link. http://community.breastcancer.org/
You can register for breastcancer.org forums with a username, email, and password by following this link.
http://community.breastcancer.org/member/register
To celebrate its 25th year, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has made some updates to most notably their name and logo. The nonprofit organization is now known as Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and with a new logo, the organization is heading into 2007 with a new advertising campaign, a revamped website, and www.25komen.org, which allows people to create an online network of friends and family to raise awareness of breast cancer.
A news story has been released chronicling one man’s fight to bring awareness to inflammatory breast cancer.
Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is a very aggressive form of breast cancer that can be misdiagnosed.
To watch the news story, click here. For additional information about IBC, visit this website.