An excellent community for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer is the Reach To Recovery® program.
For more than 45 years, the American Cancer Society Reach To Recovery program has been helping people cope with their breast cancer experience – as early as the first possibility of a diagnosis and continuing for as long as breast cancer remains a personal concern to them.
Finding out that you have breast cancer can make you feel overwhelmed, vulnerable, and alone. Suddenly having to learn about complex medical treatments and trying to choose the best one can also be stressful during this time.
Reach To Recovery volunteers are specially trained to help people through their experience by offering a measure of comfort and an opportunity for emotional grounding and informed decision making. As breast cancer survivors, our volunteers give patients and family members an opportunity to express feelings, talk about fears and concerns, and ask questions of someone who has been there. Most importantly, Reach To Recovery volunteers offer understanding, support, and hope because they themselves have survived breast cancer and gone on to live productive lives. Program volunteers do not provide medical advice.
How does the program work?
Through face-to-face visits or by phone, Reach To Recovery volunteers provide support to individuals who are:
Facing a possible breast cancer diagnosis, recurrence, or advanced-stage breast cancer
Considering or have had a lumpectomy, mastectomy, or breast reconstruction
Experiencing lymphedema
Undergoing or have completed treatment, including chemotherapy and radiation
Volunteers are trained to give support and up-to-date information, including literature for spouses or partners, children, friends, and other loved ones. Volunteers can also review American Cancer Society resources that may be able to help with a patient’s experience, concerns, and questions.
www.cancer.org
Call 1-800-227-2345 for cancer help
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