Hi Everyone

Hello Maxine,

I also want to say welcome and hello. I came across this site by accident when I most needed it - just a few weeks in between my diagnosis and surgery to remove my breast.

I hope that your experience in politics will see you in good stead to lead a march where it is necessary for change. 

I am ever so grateful to be Australian where so many services are offered to people in this country - either at no charge, or low cost - such as a mammogram. I read with horror that it actually costs someone to have a mammogram in other countries like the USA.

I hope that it stays this way in Oz as I doubt that I would have been able to afford my treatment otherwise, much less having regular mammograms! We are so very blessed. I would love to see more coming our way - radiotherapy units closer to people in country areas for instance.

Take care with your treatment and good luck with your new position. Am looking forward to seeing what happens in the future and hopefully will be able to contribute more now as my own chemo treatment has finished and I am only on Tamoxifen now.