No Surrender Breast Cancer Foundation
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. "
Albert Einstein
OUR MISSION
While we wait for the cure, we get you through your breast cancer.
The No Surrender Breast Cancer Foundation is dedicated to promoting self-advocacy, education, emotional support and empowerment for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
We educate women about every aspect of their disease and help them navigate through the maze of the medical world. By demystifying cancer, each woman can discover the courage and strength she carries within to fight and survive this disease.
By providing up to the minute research and the latest in medical modalities, combined with an evidenced based, peer-driven support community of fellow survivors, women learn to make informed decisions for their particular type of breast cancer.
Our focus is on surviving breast cancer using every means possible. To that aim, we believe that until there is a cure, early detection is the best defense. Our Before Forty Initiative raises awareness to young women, particularly African-American women, of their increased risk of developing the more aggressive Triple Negative Breast Cancer at a young age. African American women are 25% more likely to develop this type of cancer at a young age than caucasian women. Therefore, our outreach educates them about the importance of obtaining baseline screening exams before the age of 40 when a tumor may be found before it is too far advanced to survive.
The goal of The Before Forty Initiative is to ensure that all young women get baseline screening through mammography, ultra sound or breast MRI before they reach the age of 40. This screening must begin no later than the age of 35, and 30 for women of high risk. We are encouraging physicians to promote this initiative and assisting them in getting their insurance carriers to cover these screenings and subsequent follow-up tests.
The Five E's of Our Mission:
Education through the up to the minute information provided through our website
Emotional support by survivor for survivor through our active Support Forum
Early Detection as mandatory for all women starting at age 35, and age 30 for high risk women.
Equality in coverage of diagnostic screening for women of all ages, especially young women. Breast density should not be a reason to deny screening. Alternatives to mammography are available and should be used without delay.
Encouragement for women with advanced disease is responsibly and lovingly supplied by providing the latest in clinical trials suitable for them as well as the most current research breakthroughs that may be available for their treatment protocol.
We offer hope and encouragement. Through information, guidance, patient understanding and empowerment for anyone newly diagnosed, long term survivor and women battling metastatic disease, we have dedicated ourselves to make this disease one that can be conquered both physically and emotionally while we contribute to the scientific cure that will one day make breast cancer a thing of the past.
While we wait for the cure, we get you through your breast cancer.
The No Surrender Breast Cancer Foundation is a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization.
Post Office Box 84, Locust Valley, New York, 11560
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