Our Favorite Resources for Breast
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A nonprofit website dedicated to providing the most reliable and complete information available.
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Provides educational materials, events, newsletters, a Young Survivors Network, and a toll-free helpline at 800-753-5222.
Living Beyond Breast Cancer -
A comprehensive site that offers a toll-free helpline (1-800-I'M AWARE), educational materials, advocacy, and fundraising events.
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With so many options, patients need specific information from their physicians in order to make decisions that fit their goals and situation.
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Order a ReprintJeffrey Belkora, PhD, director of Breast Care Center Decision Services at the University of California, San Francisco, hosts Guidesmith, a public interest website that “focuses on how you can use leadership, teamwork, and decision making skills and tools to guide yourself, or someone else, through high-stakes situations.”
The prompt sheet that is provided to breast cancer patients at UCSF to stimulate questions to ask the doctor is available on the site, and covers areas such as treatment options, goals of treatment, the impact of each choice, and barriers that might exist.
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