Living With Advanced Breast Cancer Guide and Workshops Launch

Mar 22, 05:49 PM

Current Headlines: To: MEDICAL EDITORS

Contact: Michelle Pollak of The Wellness Community, +1-202-659- 9709 or +1-202-716-9495

WASHINGTON, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Wellness Community announced today the availability of its free guide for women living with advanced (metastic) breast cancer. Entitled "The Patient Active Guide to Living with Advanced Breast Cancer," it is available by:

-- Visiting the Advanced Breast Cancer pages at

http://www.thewellnesscommunity.org;

-- Requesting the guide by phone at: 888.793.WELL;

-- Attending one of our free workshops, the first of which will be held in

Knoxville, TN on April 12.

Advanced, or metastic, breast cancer is cancer that has spread from the place where it first developed, in the ducts or lobules of the breast to a different part of the body. It cannot be cured. While the cancer community has seen great advances in the detection and treatment of early stage breast cancer, women living with advanced breast cancer continue to face their disease with few resources, little information and are often isolated by the larger breast cancer support and advocacy community.

Many women with advanced breast cancer report feeling alone or ostracized within the larger breast cancer community, which is often focused on a cure or "beating" breast cancer. Patients report their cancer diagnosis makes them, in the view of those with localized breast cancer, "a painful reminder of what can happen." As advanced breast cancer cannot be cured, this is a possibility those with localized breast cancer may not want to face.

The guide and workshops help women with the diagnosis know they are not alone, increase their understanding of the diagnosis, make treatment decisions, manage symptoms and treatment side effects and make decisions regarding quality of life. The guide is made possible through an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline.

About The Wellness Community

Celebrating its 25th anniversary in June 2007, The Wellness Community is an international non-profit organization dedicated to providing free support, education and hope to people with cancer and their loved ones. Through participation in professionally-led support groups, educational workshops, nutrition and exercise programs, and mind/body classes, people affected by cancer learn vital skills that enable them to regain control, reduce isolation and restore hope regardless of the stage of their disease. Today, there are 22 Wellness Communities around the United States plus 56 satellite and off- site programs, two centers abroad in Tel Aviv and Tokyo, four centers in development, and online at The Virtual Wellness Community. For more information, visit http:// www.thewellnesscommunity.org

Contact:

Michelle Pollak, TWC

202.659.9709 or 202.716-9495

SOURCE The Wellness Community

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