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Friday update
Hello everyone and welcome to our Friday update. Apologies for not posting last Friday. Marianne and I attended a 2 day SWARM (Australia’s community management) conference in Footscray Melbourne. It was interesting deciding which sessions to attend and after deciding that that we did not know anything about ‘chat bots’ or…
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Friday update 17th August 2018
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…
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Friday update 27 July 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to Fridays update.Can you believe it’s only 15 days to go until the 2018 Field of Women! I myself am very excited as it will be my very first Field of Women. I have been reflecting on this event over the last few weeks and what it will mean for me to be able to stand on the MCG on the day. I’m…
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Friday update 13 July 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to Fridays update.It’s been a busy couple of weeks within the online network with lots of activity. The online conversations have been many and varied and the highs and lows have been reflective of the reality of living with a diagnosis of breast cancer. Some of the events of the last few weeks…
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Friday Update 29 June 2018
Hello everyone, welcome to today's Friday update.Last week was a very busy week for BCNA with the official launch of the State of the Nation report at Parliament House by our CEO Kirsten Pilatti. If you haven’t seen the report click here Marianne, Rosie, Danielle and Kirsten attended the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia…
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Friday update 15 June 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to Fridays update. It has been a busy couple of weeks at BCNA with lots of activity. We have recently made changes to the hours of operation of our helpline service 1800 500 258. BCNA’s helpline will now be open from 9am-6pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 5pm Fridays. As a result of the increase…
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Friday Update 1 June 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to Friday’s update. National Volunteer Week 21 – 28 May 2018 It was National Volunteer week last week and I wanted take this opportunity to say thank you to all of the BCNA volunteers! We are thrilled to have such a dedicated and enthusiastic team of volunteers who provide support in so many ways…
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Friday Update 18 May 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to Friday’s update. First up, I just wanted to let you know that the Policy Team has put together a more detailed news item about the Federal budget. You can check it out on the website: https://www.bcna.org.au/news/2018/05/2018-federal-budget/ It highlights seven things, which are likely to be…
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Friday Update 4 May 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to Friday’s update. I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of our new online members who have joined the online forum over the last month. We hope you have settled in and started reading some of our online posts and making some connections with other community members. As many of our…
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Friday update 20 April 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to Fridays update. Don’t forget that the PBAC (Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee) will hand down their decision regarding Palbociclib and Ribociclib so keep your eye out tonight for any announcements. I will post as soon as I hear any news! Fingers crossed! We were thrilled to see the…
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Friday Update 6 April 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to Fridays update. Due to Easter and Good Friday, there was no Friday update posted last week. I do hope that you all had a great Easter and that you had time to enjoy some of the great autumn weather! In the news Breast density BCNA is calling on your help to assist us develop a new web page…
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Just to confuse you! Fridays update (Monday 19 March 2018)
Hello everyone and welcome to Fridays update on a Monday! My apologies for any confusion; the update is normally posted on a Friday but we decided to hold off until today so we could announce today that Kirsten Pilatti has been appointed as the new CEO of Breast Cancer Network Australia. Many of you will already know…
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Friday update 2 March 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to Fridays update. How fast have the last couple of weeks gone, we are already in early March! There is lots happening at BCNA with work underway for BCNA’s 20th Anniversary celebrations. A great article was posted in the online forum titled “Breaking taboos: talking about the sexual side effects…
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Friday update 16/2/2018
Hello everyone and welcome to Fridays update. It’s been a busy couple of week at BCNA. You may have read that the results are in from the Beacon name survey. Thank you to everyone for your feedback, the newsletter will remain as The Beacon. I have attached the link and response from Christine Nolan, CEO of BCNA Results of…