YBCSN Update

This week, I will be finishing up the "tip sheets" to go onto the Young Breast Cancer Survivor's Network website! The website is still in the process of being set up. Mrs. Silvia Camata and I used the information from the three focus groups to develop sheets we thought would be important to the survivors. Some of the most talked about issues included: mental fatigue, chemo brain, getting active, losing weight brought on by treatment, work and finance, breast reconstruction surgery. These issues were the most common and also the most frustrating for the survivors. The website will have these tip sheets, and also information about resources in the Birmingham area. Since this project was locally funded (by the Women Breast Health’s Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham), it is important that we provide information that will benefit the residences living here. One of these resources is Oasis, which is a counseling service offered to women and their children. The YBCSN is providing free counseling sessions for survivors and children. To check out all the goodness we have going on, here is our link on the UAB Center for Nursing Research page: http://www.uab.edu/nursing/research/1123-the-young-breast-cancer-survivorship-network-project-