Friday update 17th August 2018

Giovanna_BCNA
Giovanna_BCNA Member Posts: 1,839
edited August 2018 in Community news and events



Hello everyone and welcome to Fridays update.  Wow what an amazing weekend was had last weekend!                              

2018 Field of Women

Such a great experience to stand on the MCG with over 12,000
others to mark the 20th Anniversary of Breast Cancer Network
Australia’s work to support, inform, represent and connect all Australians
affected by breast cancer.  You can see
all the Field of Women photos
here
and the Field of Women streamed live
on Facebook


PLAN B Living Well Beyond Breast Cancer & PLAN C
Living Well With Metastatic Breast Cancer

The Plan B & C conferences were held on Saturday, the
day before the Field of Women at the Glasshouse in Melbourne.  Plan B is available to view via webcast below.
 You will need to register first to be
able to view the webcast.

Plan B Living well beyond breast cancer webcast can be
viewed here


Plan C Conference

The Plan C conference was held concurrently with Plan B
conference.  What a great day and great
opportunity for all involved in the conference to meet and get to know each
other.  Riki and I are in the process of
collating a summary of some of the major discussions had on the day and will
post online as soon as this is available. 

Following the formal presentations we had the opportunity to
have some facilitated group discussion. 
The topic for discussion was ‘You look so well, when does your treatment
finish?’ This discussion was facilitated by @MoiraC, one of our community
members.  You can read the great summary
provided by @MoiraC below.  A big thank
you to you Moira, it was great to meet you and your partner last Saturday. We really hope that this discussion will continue in the
Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer online group, see thread below

Issues
raised in Plan C Survivors Discussion Group August 11, 2018 Melbourne

 

Melbourne Football Club winning
slogan for Field of Women

Many of you have been asking about the winning entry slogan for the
Melbourne Football Club banner, see the winning entry below

WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF



EVERYONE HERE AND HOME



THE PINK LADY REMINDS US ALL



THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE

 

COMMUNITY NEWS

Some recent news items have been added to Breast Cancer
Network Australia’s website that you may be interested in reading about

My Health Record

Experience
our many digital resources

Breast
cancer apps for you

 

 Counterpart Resource Centre
(Melbourne only event)

Living with
metastatic cancer: meet the researcher

Thursday 11
October 1.00pm–2.30pm

Counterpart
Resource Centre, Level 5, 210 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Dr Sophie Lewis from the University of NSW is currently
undertaking qualitative research into the experiences of women living
with metastatic breast cancer. Sophie has been conducting interviews and
collecting diary notes from women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer
to learn what supportive care is most important to women as they live
with this disease. She will speak about the preliminary findings of her
study. 




Metastatic
Breast Cancer Awareness Day
is on 13 October. This day is
being marked throughout the world as a day to acknowledge people living
with metastatic breast cancer and to highlight their voices and
experience. We will acknowledge this important day with afternoon tea
after Sophie’s presentation. 

Please book onlineRSVP by email or phone 1300 781 500

Our quote for this Fridays update:

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift
which is why we call it the present.


Hoping you all have
a restful weekend, take care

Regards Giovanna

 

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Comments

  • iserbrown
    iserbrown Member Posts: 5,540
    Thank you! 
  • jennyss
    jennyss Member Posts: 1,950
    I clicked into the link to 'Issues raised in Plan C Survivors Discussion', and I got 'permission problem, you don't have permission  to do that'. Any ideas?
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974
    @jennyss I think you have to be a member of the mets group to read it.
  • jennyss
    jennyss Member Posts: 1,950
    Thanks @kmakm
  • arpie
    arpie Member Posts: 7,521
    Why do we have to give our mobile phone details as well as email to be able to see the webcast for Plan B?  I actually find that quite invasive & annoying.

    My phone is for my personal use ..... and is quite irrelevant to them .... The other questions can be considered 'fact finding' .... but also not really necessary!    They are not medical people - they just have a platform to show a video!

    Just being 'picky' I guess!!  I won't be signing up!  :( 
  • SoldierCrab
    SoldierCrab Member Posts: 3,445
    @Michellebella
     here is the post click on the link above about the webcast 

    PLAN B Living Well Beyond Breast Cancer & PLAN C Living Well With Metastatic Breast Cancer

    The Plan B & C conferences were held on Saturday, the day before the Field of Women at the Glasshouse in Melbourne.  Plan B is available to view via webcast below.  You will need to register first to be able to view the webcast.

    Plan B Living well beyond breast cancer webcastcan be viewed here