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By Sean LenaThe February 2010 issue of Reach to Recovery’s Bloom featured Partnership affiliate Patient Friends Society’s October Awareness Day in Jerusalem. Bloom is a monthly breast cancer-focused magazine that promotes the exchange of current information on training, advocacy, research, volunteer, and peer support. It allows women who have lived through breast cancer to tell their stories and

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By Niveen Torky, Community Program Director, Breast Cancer Foundation of Egypt We are proud to share Aida, an emotional story of a woman confronting her fears about breast cancer, which underscores the importance of early detection. The 14-minute film is in Arabic with English subtitles, features Egyptian actress Samah Anwar as Aida and was funded in part by the Partnership’s Community Advocacy

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By Suzanne Baazet, Vital Voices Local Advocacy Coordinator for Morocco, Coordinator for the October 2009 Forum for Leadership-Building Against Breast Cancer in Casablanca, Morocco Participants from 2009 Forum for Leadership-Building Against Breast Cancer, Casablanca, MoroccoWhen my Moroccan mother-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer two and a half years ago, I saw

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By Enas Abdo M. Mohsen, Sana’a, YemenSometimes in life we work hard, prepare for everything to have satisfying results, and expect everything to go perfectly because we tried to do our best. We are shocked when the opposite happens. Unfortunately, that is exactly what has happened with me. (Don’t worry it isn’t so bad.) After the success we had in the first stage of our breast cancer awareness

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By Dr. Samia Al-Amoudi, Associate Professor and Head of Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Alamoudi Scientific Chair for Breast Cancer at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaYou cannot imagine how effective the pink ribbon can be as the beginning of a dialogue about breast cancer. On October 28th, we installed two large pink ribbons at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) Hospital—one at the entrance

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Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06694231971884254440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011314701269388661.post-11905858573907632042009-10-30T13:46:00.000-07:002009-10-30T13:50:29.076-07:00

"A dream has come true. Another triumph in the fight against breast cancer," said Mohamed Shaalan, Breast Cancer Foundation of Egypt, following the lighting of the pyramids in Giza, Egypt on October 24th.

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By Carol El-Jabari, U.S.-Middle East Partnership representative in the West Bank.Patient’s Friends Society-Jerusalem and survivors from the Sunrise breast cancer support group held the first Palestinian Breast Cancer Awareness Event on Sunday, October 11th, at the Ramallah Cultural Palace. The goals were to raise awareness about the importance of early detection, celebrate life, and show how

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by Enas Abdo M. Mohsen, SOUL for the Development of Women and Children, Partnership Advocacy Grant Recipient Before I started the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign in Yemen, I thought women, girls, and all Yemeni society wouldn’t listen to my breast cancer awareness information. I thought they wouldn’t care and would be afraid to talk about this disease because they think if you have breast

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By Sean LenaThere are a number of obstacles to getting women to schedule annual screening mammograms. Dr. Hanan Gewefel, a radiologist and the Director of Breast Imaging at the Woman and Fetal Imaging Clinic (WAFI) in Cairo, says the primary obstacle is fear—of both the procedure and of possibly learning you may have cancer. The next obstacle is the stigma associated with a breast cancer

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By Hanaa IsmailThe following post was submitted by Hanaa Ismail, program coordinator at the Suzanne Mubarak Regional Center for Women’s Health and Development in Alexandria, Egypt. To increase awareness about breast cancer and provide women with information about breast self-exams, we set up a stand at the Carrefour City Centre Shopping Mall in Alexandria, Egypt. For three days, from 10 a.m. to

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By: Chris McKallagat, Country Lead, West Bank and Gaza Chris McKallagat with Mariam Awad from Bethlehem University’s Faculty of Nursing and a member of the Partnership’s Advisory Planning Committee working to develop a breast cancer nursing training of trainers workshop in conjunction with the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS).Recently, I traveled to the Palestinian territories to meet with key

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Dans le cadre de l’extension de ses activités au Maroc, le Partenariat Etats-Unis – Moyen Orient pour la Sensibilisation et la Recherche sur le Cancer du Sein a tenu une table ronde Mardi le 23 Juin au Royal Mansour Le Meridien à Casablanca. Cette table ronde a été organisée en vue de lancer le Programme au Maroc et surtout d’établir le dialogue avec les professionnels du Cancer du sein et les

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The Partnership would like to share the following editorial, which ran in the July 14th issue of The National, an English newspaper launched by the Abu Dhabi Media Company. ‘Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” These are the words of Marie Curie, the Nobel-prize winning scientist who was the first to treat

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By Susan Brown, Director, Health Education, Susan G. Komen for the Cure®Susan and colleague, Sandy Finestone, conducted a workshop with members of the Jordan Breast Cancer Program in Amman, June 3-4, 2009. Together, they are developing a curriculum and materials for institution-based support groups.Sandy Finestone and I spent two days with more than 20 women in Amman, Jordan. The topic of our

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By Dr. Samia Al-AMoudiI was proud to be part of the 21-member international delegation supporting the first Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure®. Our delegation included women from 18 countries--women from different cultures and races, and with different religious backgrounds. But we all spoke the same language when it came to fighting breast cancer. This was not a political or social fight,

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By Hana Abu SharebAs a nurse, Hana Abu Shareb, Health authority Abu Dhabi has worked with many people with cancer for the past eight years. She shared with the Partnership how one patient’s reaction to a breast cancer diagnosis has really stayed with her. “I worked with a 45-year-old woman who was shocked to receive a breast cancer diagnosis. Her shock quickly changed to concern for her

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Alice Rezien, of the Suzanne Mubarak Regional Center for Women’s Health and Development, in Alexandria, Egypt, submitted the following post.In conjunction with International Women's Day (February 10-12, 2009), the Suzanne Mubarak Center organized and conducted a three-day training program for 30 nurses working in outpatient clinics and family health care centers in different sectors of Alexandria

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لتظهر مساندتك لنشر الوعي والتأييد لمكافحة سرطان الثدي: قم بتنظيم فعالية خلال انعقاد أسبوع الشراكة للعمل الأجتماعي الأول للفترة من 24- 30 آيار، 2009تتشرف شراكة الولايات المتحدة الأميركية والشرق الأوسط لمكافحة سرطان الثدي ونشر الوعي والبحوث أن تعلن عن أنعقاد أسبوع الشراكة للعمل الأجتماعي الأول. حيث سيجتمع في شهر آيار الحالي نساء ورجال مهتمين بموضوع سرطان الثدي قدِموا من الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا

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Show your support for breast cancer awareness and advocacy: organize an activity during our first Partnership Community Action Week, May 24-30, 2009 The U.S.-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research is proud to announce the first Partnership Community Action Week. This May, women and men from across the Middle East and North Africa who care about breast cancer will come

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By Marilys CorbexThe editorial in the last issue of the UICC Global News Alert (the International Union Against Cancer newsletter) is about the use (and abuse) of mammography screening in low- and middle-income countries, which presents an important lesson for advocates working with breast cancer in the Middle East.The article reflects the growing conviction in the scientific and expert community

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Breast Care Kuwait Patient Support Workshop. Picture Credit: Carol Jabari 2009In February, Breast Care Kuwait held a regional conference on breast cancer support groups. The two-day workshop demonstrated the importance of psychological support during cancer treatment and provided guidance on starting a group. Debby Stewart, a coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Breast Center Survivor Volunteer

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Athar Foundation teaching university students about breast cancer. Picture Credit: Athar Foundation, YemenThis spring, advocacy groups from throughout the Middle East organized outreach events for International Women’s Day on March 8th and Mother's Day on March 21st.The following is a sampling of events that have taken place in the past few months:In February, the group Breast Care Kuwait held a

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Photo by Erik CharltonA recent study has found that a class of drugs that are most commonly used to combat bone loss may reduce by a third the chance that some breast cancers will spread or recur--NY Times.

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Embedded video from CNN VideoThis past October, CNN’s Barbara Starr attended the Partnership’s Regional Breast Cancer Advocacy Conference in Amman, Jordan, and produced the above piece for the show Vital Signs. The report highlights the advocacy efforts of Dr. Samia al-Amoudi, a Saudi obstetrician and long-time Partnership supporter. Starr also interviews Dr. Mahmoud Sarhan, director general of

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(Breast Feeding Protects Mothers from Risk of Breast Cancer)فوائد الرضاعة الطبيعية عديدة ومفيدة سواءً للأم او الطفل ، بالنسبة للطفل فإنها تساعد جهاز مناعته وتقويها ضد بعض الأمراض المعدية هذا وتعتبر الرضاعة الطبيعية جسر التواصل بين الام ووليدها فهي تقوي الروابط بينهما وتوصل له بهذه الطريقة الحب والحنان والدفء فيشعر وليدها بنفس المشاعرتجاهها .اما فوائد الرضاعة الطبيعية بالنسبة للأم فهي كثيرة ومن

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Carol Jabari laughed out loud the first time I asked her to describe her experience putting together the US Middle East Partnership’s Baseline Assessment of Breast Cancer awareness and Care: West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. This past summer, in the sweltering heat of the Palestinian July, she and a team of local researchers investigated the current status of breast cancer services in the

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JEDDAH – Nearly 700 girls from 54 private girls’ schools in Jeddah, who were selected to be breast cancer national awareness ambassadors, visited a photo and documentary exhibition on breast cancer at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Jeddah Tuesday. The breast cancer awareness program has been organized by Jeddah private schools and Sheikh Muhammad Hussain Al-Amoudi Endowed Chair Fund for

Emily Tavoulareashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322428751926102124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011314701269388661.post-32407680778046725842008-11-24T03:24:00.001-08:002008-11-24T03:50:48.052-08:00

A teacher in the United States is teaching her students about cancer... just a reminder that teaching and strength goes both ways.Link to the videoTranscript below:The relationship between a student and teacher can be incredibly powerful.In a fourth grade class in Littleton, Colorado the connection is not only strong, but healing too.Kim Christiansen explains."So what do we know so far?"TEACHABLE

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For three days, from October 31 - November 2, 2008, 136 participants from 15 countries came together for the first Middle East and North Africa Regional Breast Cancer Advocacy Conference: Building Bridges for Advocates Across the MENA Region. Survivors participting in the conferenceThis landmark regional event was a unique opportunity for leaders in the women’s health and breast cancer awareness

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Seven women from the Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), came to ICF International on Thursday, October, 16th to discuss breast cancer in their respective countries.As October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the women participating in the October program are all involved in the fight against breast cancer in their countries, which include:

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On the evening of October 7th, 2008, the White House was turned pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.First Lady Laura Bush spoke about the significance of eradicating breast cancer, and stressed the importance of public-private partnerships. The First Lady spoke at length about the US-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research, highlighting the successes of the

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