Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Breast Cancer Support Services

By Roselyn Capen

Going through the misery of breast cancer and the tiredness associated with its treatment can easily make you give up hope. You will feel lonesome even in presence of your family since they'll treat you as a fragile object sometimes, at other times, insensitively. What you really need is some understanding, which only people who have suffered what you have can give you.

For such times, many breast cancer support groups offer all the information you need for your disease. These groups are mostly run by women who have experienced what you now experience, and will understand all your needs. Through such organizations, you can meet and interact with other survivors, who will give you the strength to defeat your cancer, and other patients, who suffer from the same fears you do, and will help you coming out of your loneliness.

Groups like bcsupport.org have chat rooms for women to interact with other cancer patients, receive latest news on researches going on in the field, update women about breast cancer issues and treatments, and make them feel at home. Other organizations like Susan G. Komen for the Cure themselves have research laboratories for improving technology, providing extensive information on everything a breast cancer victim may need. This group is the largest group of breast cancer survivors and activists; they will surely understand what you need.

Two women diagnosed with breast cancer realized the needs and hardships faced by breast cancer victims, and in 1988 started breastcancersupport.com for helping women like them with breast cancer issues. There are so many people in the world who want to help you with your problems because they know how it feels; all that you have to do is look around and as for that help!

These organizations will not give you a magical power to fight breast cancer. They just let you know that you are not the only one going through these miseries, and that, in no manner, do you have to be the only one to face them. They stand by you, cheer you up, and see you through it through the sheer power of understanding. You, too, will find yourself developing affection for them, and might even want to volunteer to help other scared women, just by being friends with them. This will give you a mental strength for surviving your treatment, more than you can now imagine.

If your treatment costs more than you can afford, you do not have to be disheartened. There are countless organizations that receive donations for people who can not meet all the financial funds treatments require. All you need to do is decide if you want to avail help in any matter, and be assured, you will get a lot of love and support, along with all the help you want.

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