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Executive Director's Blog

Alice Yaker

Mammogram Guidelines: Science is Not the Enemy
Post Date: December 21, 2009 By Alice Yaker
Categories: Breast Cancer

During the last month, since the new screening guidelines were announced, it seems everyone wants to talk about them.
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New mammography guidelines—now what do I do?
Post Date: November 17, 2009 By Alice Yaker
Categories: Breast Cancer

Most of us at SHARE are breast or ovarian cancer survivors. Some of us with breast cancer were diagnosed as a result of a suspicious finding on a yearly screening mammogram when we had no symptoms. Others of us, like me at age 48 and then at 66, were diagnosed even though nothing showed on those yearly mammograms.
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Why do people give?
Post Date: October 23, 2009 By Alice Yaker

I've often thought about why some people are donors and others are not. My sense, after years of being involved in the not for profit world, is that it's less about someone's financial situation than it is about how they see themselves and the world. 
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Community is powerful
Post Date: October 6, 2009 By Alice Yaker
Categories: Ovarian Cancer

When a program sign-up of 30 women results in an attendance of 30 women, you realize that something really special must be happening. So it was when 30 SHARE ovarian cancer survivors, some as long term as 38 years and others as recent as February 2009, gathered at SHARE to meet each other.
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Support groups are still necessary
Post Date: September 8, 2009 By Alice Yaker

Lately I've been thinking about whether in-person support groups are still relevant for women and men affected by breast or ovarian cancer.
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