When we visit Queens-area high schools for our Be A Friend To Your Mother breast cancer education workshops, we love it when schools get involved by doing additional awareness activities […]
How A Patient Navigator Can Improve Cancer Treatment & Empower Patients
A week ago, SHAREing & CAREing received this message from a frustrated patient: I have been diagnosed with breast cancer. The first surgeon suggested was stopping practice, the next is out […]
6 Tips for Dealing with Everyday Anxiety
Here at SHAREing & CAREing we are very familiar with anxiety. However, you don’t have to be struggling with a cancer diagnosis to be impacted. Anxiety triggers exist in our everyday […]
3 Things to Say and 3 Things NOT to Say When Someone You Love has Cancer
One of the most challenging tasks we are faced with when someone we love has cancer is to manage our own strong reactions. This is not easy to do. When […]
NY Senate Bill Expands Access to Breast Cancer Screening
In June 2016, the New York legislature passed Senate Bill S8093, that will make breast cancer screening more accessible to women statewide. After receiving unanimous, bipartisan approval in the State Senate, […]
Fighting to Restore City-Wide Funding for Women’s Cancer Support
For the past six years, the NYC City Council Cancer Initiative funding has supported the availability of, and access to, early detection programs for cancer services in our community. This […]
Recovery Survivorship Support Group: Acupuncture
On Wednesday, May 13th SHAREing & CAREing conducted its monthly Recovery Survivorship Program support group meet-up. This month we were honored to have as a special guest, Olga Mardach-Duclerc MSOM, […]
What is Cancer Survivorship?
In preparation for the first official entry into the SHAREing & CAREing blogoshphere I did a quick Google search on the definition of cancer survivorship. There were many. You can […]