Support

Most would agree that a breast cancer survivor could be most qualified to establish a breast cancer support group. Not only would she be familiar with the disease's onset of a complicated gamut of fears and emotions, but he/she would be able to impart her learned coping skills with others living with the cancer. That is the most significant lesson to be learned during the process of cancer recovery: a person lives with breast cancer and does not suffer from it, which would be framing herself as a victim.

Melton breast cancer support group is a group founded by two women living with cancer. Janice Marriott and Morwen Dyer have succeeded in creating one of the best breast cancer support groups, offering on its Web site locations for moral support meetings as well as breast cancer research. Those with cancer and their family and friends could the find Melton breast cancer support group and their Web site to be a deep well of information as well as encouragement.

Another medium of support for breast cancer patients is managed by the Avon Company. Their brand of breast cancer support actually incorporates the selling of support breast cancer awareness products whose proceeds will go to people living with breast cancer. Breast cancer support ribbons along with other types of products are sold at the Avon Company, but if a person would rather create her/his own area cancer support group there is certain criteria one can follow in facilitating a breast cancer support group.

A person starting a cancer support group could advertise the new cancer support group in the newspaper. During the actual meetings, everyone including the mediator in the group, soul use inclusive language because men as well as lesbians can be diagnosed with breast cancer. A support meeting could address their issues as well. Breast cancer support may seem foreign to men and they do not want their masculine selves compromised in anyway.

Discussing in the open the shared experience of having cancer can give cancer survivors and the newly diagnosed cancer patient as well as family and friends renewed hope. In cancer support groups, the cancer survivor can exercise hope through communication that the disease stays in remission. At the same time people who are fighting cancer can be given the hope and the truth that they may one day, too, be rid of cancer.