Health Tips
Monthly Reminders – Make sure you perform your monthly breast self exams. According to the American Cancer Society, women in their 20’s should start performing breast self-exams. It is important to know your breast by the looks and feel of it. Any changes or concerns, you should see your physician immediately. Click on the link below to learn how to perform a breast self-exam.
Learn to perform a breast self exam.
National Cancer Organizations
BreastCancer.org – providing breast cancer information.
The American Cancer Society – nationwide community-base voluntary health organization providing cancer information, education, research, advocacy, and service.
Cancer Care - Find free counseling, education, and financial assistance. Provides financial grants for diagnotic testing and related services. Administeres the Avon Cares Program for Medically Underserved Women.
800-813-HOPE (800-813-4673)
National Lymphedema Network – Provides education and guidance on the prevention and management of lymphedema.
800-541-3259
National Cancer Institute - conducts and supports research, health information, other programs associated with the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatments for cancer.
Susan G. Komen – a national, non-profit organization raising money to find a cure for breast cancer.
SUSAN LOVE, MD.COM – Information on primary and metastatic breast cancer, as well as issues and information relevant to menopause, hormone replacement therapy, and other mid-life health issues. Susan Love M.D., M.B.A. is the author of Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book and Dr. Susan Love’s Hormone Book.
Young Survival Coalition - a non-profit organization that networks young breast cancer survivors and supporters dedicated to the concerns with breast cancer issues.
Financial Assistance and Free Services/Programs
Cleaning for a Reason – Free maid services while undergoing treatment.
Breast Cancer Emergency Fund – Provides low-income San Franciscans with emergency financial assistance while receiving treatment for breast cancer. BCEF considers current immediate monthly income, not annual, and does not count personal assets (such as cars, homes or savings). BCEF pays rent, utilities, uninsured medical expenses.
Lifelines – provides support to women and men with breast cancer in San Francisco including financial assistance, meals, transportation, wellness workshops and more.
Sense of Security, Inc. – Provides financial assistance to women with breast cancer in Colorado.
Exams & Screening
Breast Health Access for Women with Disabilities – BHAWD is a non-profit organization that provides free breast exams and education for women with disabilities.
California Breast Cancer Early Detection Program – Free breast cancer screening for low-income women over 40. Fresno, Calif.
800-511-2300
JANE CUSUMANO FOUNDATION - Established by Chateau Wally Films to honor the last request of writer/director Jane Cusumano, who lost her four-year battle with breast cancer one month after directing a major motion picture, What Matters Most. Provides information on breast cancer prevention and treatment, funding for diagnostics and treatment to underserved women, and research dollars directed at preventing and curing breast cancer.
Food
Project Open Hand – offers free meals to breast cancer patients undergoing treatment (including hormonal therapy) who live in San Francisco or Alameda County. There are no other qualifying criteria. 415-447-2321.
Project Angel Food – Provides free meal delivery to persons newly diagnosed with breast cancer as well as breast cancer survivors in the Los Angeles area.
Complementary Care
The Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic – a state licensed clinic located in Oakland and San Francisco that provides free complementary alternative medical treatments to low income women with cancer.
Marina Lee U’ilani Bermudez Alternative Breast Cancer Treatment Fund – provids support for alternative and complementary treatments for women with breast cancer in Santa Cruz,the San Francisco Bay Area and Hawaii.
HERS Breast Cancer Foundation provides programs and support for breast cancer patients and their families, including offering reike, yoga, tai chi, meditation and visualization and writing circles in Fremont, California.
Airline Assistance
Angel Flight - Provides free airline transportation to specialized health facilities.
AirLifeline – Through volunteer pilots, provides free airline transportation for healthcare access
Partnership for Prescription Assistance
RxHope - helping people to obtain critical medications that they would normally have trouble affording. They act as your advocate in making the patient assistance program journey easier and faster by supplying vital information and help
Cost Containment Research Institute – provides advice and listing of how to find lowcost to free prescription drugs directly from manufacturer
Other Sites
Mastectomy Store – find discounted mastectomy bras, breast cancer products, health products, and more.
Envita – Being the only clinic of its kind, Envita provides alternative solutions to common illnesses all backed by science and approved by the FDA.
Rancho La Puerta – Get away to a health and fitness spa resort. A resort where you can relax, enjoy healthy foods, get fit, and get pampered with a spa treatment.
The Healing Beyond Cancer – is a dynamic mind/ body/spiritual support program, easily accessible via tele-classes, assisting individuals with cancer, explore ways to transform their relationship to themselves and to their illness. Sonny Rose, M.A.Counseling Psychology is a writer, evolutionary psychotherapist and Founding Director of The Healing Beyond Cancer. Sonny’s work and life is influenced by her years of study with Spiritual Masters in India and Nepal, and has a unique style of therapy that fully integrates mind, body, and spirit. Her joy is to inspire and awaken others to what is possible.
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