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Lorde touches on the counseling procedures that take place post-op via the American Cancer Society's Reach for Recovery Program and their encouragement and promotion of the breast prosthesis. She argues that the program, while doing work under the guise of "good" and "recovery", actually reinforced a kind of misogynist nostalgia.
Hope Lodge is a charitable project run by the American Cancer Society (ACS) offering cancer patients and their caregivers a free place to stay when they are being treated in another location away from home. Patients staying at a Hope Lodge must be in active cancer treatment, and permanently reside more than 40 miles or one hour away from their ...
raise awareness and funds for breast cancer: 2003 14 locations across the United States (2008) walk participants are required to raise $2,200; crew members register for $90; volunteers participate free Weekend to End Breast Cancer Curing Breast Cancer: 2003 Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg
In its effort to focus on women who did not have many financial resources, the organization offered free mammograms, wigs, and prosthetics to them. [16] Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization Advocacy program [17] worked to increase breast cancer research funding, support breast cancer related clinical studies and ensure quality health care ...
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating cancer. Established in 1913, the society is organized into six geographical regions of both medical and lay volunteers operating in more than 250 Regional offices throughout the United States. [ 1 ]
The $100-million proton therapy center is the first such treatment facility in central Ohio for adult and pediatric cancer patients. Ohio State, Nationwide Children's proton therapy center brings ...
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