How did you find out about BCNA?
Hello ladies! I hope everyone has been keeping safe and healthy 😊. I wanted to ask everyone who wants to share, how you found out about this site, BCNA? I think it’s really important for women (...
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Hi @FLClover,
what an interesting question,
when I went to the breast surgeon, thinking that I only had early breast cancer,after my staging scans, and we went back to see him to get the results, his answer was this"I cannot help you, you need to see an oncologist oh, and by the way the stats are 7 years",first of all what a way to be told your diagnosis, and the last thing he did was to give me a copy of "My Journey" as I walked out of his rooms!!!, so thats how I found out about bcna, after some time to digest everything and a visit to the oncologist, I did have time to sit down and read the book, I still have it over 8 years later.
When I met my now retired breast care nurse and getting to know her, she told me that she had made appointments with every gp surgery in our area and I must add this means a journey of several hundred kilometres up and down the peninsula where we live,her aim was to leave information for women who were diagnosed with breast cancer, I might add, that at our last bcna support meeting, the 'My Journey" book was a topic of information as several of the newly diagnosed ladies there had not heard of it, which just says to me, that, somehow we need to get more information out to radiology clinics, gp clinics, specialists centres,breast surgeons etc, but, how do we do that!!
I also have the Hope and Hurdles pack as well for women with MBC, all in all very very informative,
wendy55
what an interesting question,
when I went to the breast surgeon, thinking that I only had early breast cancer,after my staging scans, and we went back to see him to get the results, his answer was this"I cannot help you, you need to see an oncologist oh, and by the way the stats are 7 years",first of all what a way to be told your diagnosis, and the last thing he did was to give me a copy of "My Journey" as I walked out of his rooms!!!, so thats how I found out about bcna, after some time to digest everything and a visit to the oncologist, I did have time to sit down and read the book, I still have it over 8 years later.
When I met my now retired breast care nurse and getting to know her, she told me that she had made appointments with every gp surgery in our area and I must add this means a journey of several hundred kilometres up and down the peninsula where we live,her aim was to leave information for women who were diagnosed with breast cancer, I might add, that at our last bcna support meeting, the 'My Journey" book was a topic of information as several of the newly diagnosed ladies there had not heard of it, which just says to me, that, somehow we need to get more information out to radiology clinics, gp clinics, specialists centres,breast surgeons etc, but, how do we do that!!
I also have the Hope and Hurdles pack as well for women with MBC, all in all very very informative,
wendy55