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Susan Komen Breast Cancer Foundation A diagnosis of breast cancer? Here are some resources to help you! There are more and more organizations and groups around the world offering support and advice to women, but not limited to men as well who have been affected by breast cancer. Many of these groups and organizations not only spend time counseling people, but they hold many fundraising events and campaign to help pay for new research on the disease. In some cases some of these groups or organizations offer treatment to patients diagnosed with the disease who can not afford to pay for treatment themselves. Here is a list of various agencies and groups that can be found in the U.S. that have been set up specifically to fight against this disease and provide support to those who have been diagnosed with it. One of these groups in the United States is the American Cancer Society (ACS), which is a community-based health and helps to combat all types of cancers that now seem to affect the population. They also spend vast amounts of their time not only by focusing on the treatment of cancer, but also to prevent and how to reduce the pain felt by patients and their families and save lives. They also help the costs of pursuing further research and educate people about the disease and making people more aware of its effects. Another organization Cancer Care Incorporated to provide a hotline for all questions related to cancer, and that includes medical information, cancer terms and definitions, advice, guidance on local services, the equipment free information, as well as information about local support groups for patients region and the abundance of educational programs on issues of cancer. We come now to the AFRC (Cancer Research Foundations of America), a national group, which focuses on cancer prevention by educating both people and scientific research. It is also able to provide people with information on other forms of cancer, and breast, such as prostate, lung, colorectal, skin and cervix. Then you can if you wish to contact the Living Beyond Breast Cancer Foundation, which has been established and provides a help desk where you are able to obtain support after being diagnosed with the disease. You will discover that the people at the other end of the phone talking to you have been diagnosed with the disease and survived. They are able to provide you with first hand information on the salaries offered, how it is diagnosed and how to survive. But do not forget the people at the other end of the phone can offer emotional support and not actual medical advice, so you should consult your doctor who will refer you to a specialist. Then there is the Medicare hotline, which is another foundation of breast cancer and it can provide patient information on mammography and how it is used to help detect breast cancer during early stages. We also NABCO (National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations) that can provide people with answers to many questions they have related to the disease and they can either call or send an e-mail to get the information they need about breast cancer and the many related issues. If you want a more individual about a question you have regarding the disease, there may be a case of you contact the National Cancer Institute Information Service, which can provide patients with answers to any specific issue that may relate to disease. Also a number of years ago was created a foundation called Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, which helps to fight against breast cancer and are well known for organizing numerous outreach programs as a. Posted on February 23, 2010.
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