What's Happening at SHARE Blog

LatinaSHARE's co-director, Jennie Santiago, introduces this video, which aired on CUNY-TV. "No Estoy Sola/I'm Not Alone" features the experience of one woman who faces breast cancer and includes the stories of several women. It's in English with Spanish subtitles.
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As I mourn the end of Oscar season, I think about how much I appreciate movies, not just for their entertainment value, but also for their ability to educate and inspire. So, for those of you who, like me, are not ready to move on to the next popular culture celebration, here are five movies that entertain, educate, and inspire (at least in some cases) about cancer. Can you think of others?
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SHARE participants just returned from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, where we had a poster for our Novela, Be Brave . . . They're Your Breasts ("Se Valiente . . . Son Tus Senos").
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SHARE is helping to recruit volunteers to join the Love/Avon Army of Women (www.armyofwomen.org) and help move breast cancer beyond a cure. 
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In 1976, the US was celebrating its bicentennial, New York City's economy was failing, and a group of women were coming together to do something revolutionary -- talk about their experiences with breast cancer. This was the start of SHARE -- 12 women in a support group in NYC. Here are remembrances from three of those women, who recently answered the question:
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Breast Cancer Awareness posted a Facebook poll asking users to choose how they would prefer to donate to the cause -- fund research, fund mammograms, help patients pay for treatment, or help survivors pay for prosthesis.
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Now don't get me wrong -- I have enormous respect for Nancy Brinker. She turned a promise to her sister into a multimillion dollar foundation working to cure breast cancer.
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We think all of SHARE's volunteers deserve recognition for their work...
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More than 40 SHARE women and men went to Washington for NBCC's Annual Advocacy Training Conference. Theme was "The Breast Cancer Deadline 2020: Changing the Conversation." Many thanks to Toyoko Endo for taking the photos.
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For the past 12 years, SHARE has been holding meetings with patients and doctors to discuss communication issues.
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On September 28, SHARE held a program called, "Fertility, Pregnancy, and Adoption: Knowing Your Options," presented by Glenn Schattman, MD and Allison Rosen, PhD.
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Save the date for next year: September 19, 2011

Video production donated by wbmediandesign.com
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Joe Baker, President of the Medicare Rights Center, appeared on C-Span's morning call-in program, The Washington Journal, on Thursday, August 5. He answered callers' questions about health reform's impact on the Medicare prescription drug benefit (Part D). 
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Listen here to Alice Yaker on Juggling Act with Dr. Lori Sokol.
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The women featured in this video have been helped by SHARE.
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So much has been happening at SHARE these days, and as always, none of it could happen without our volunteers. In April, we celebrated their contributions at our annual Volunteer Appreciation Party.
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Mark Scherzer from New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage talks about the impact health care reform could have on access, affordability, and comprehensiveness in coverage and care. Listen here.
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Mark Scherzer, Esq., of New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage, got a letter published in the New York Times explaining why "Cadillac" health plans are often indispensable for seriously ill people.
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A look at some of the political realities that affect the process of reform.
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This is my the fourth piece reporting back from SHARE's December 3rd health care reform program, focusing on parts of the bills that might create problems for many individuals and for the State of New York.
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This is my third piece about SHARE's health reform discussion that was held last Thursday, December 3rd. (Click to see the first or second installments).
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This is my second piece about SHARE's health reform discussion held last week (click here to see the first installment, focusing on the broad outlines of the reform). Today I want to focus on some parts of the bills that appear to offer positive benefits if they pass.
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Last Thursday, SHARE held a panel discussion on health care reform. Some interesting issues were raised that might have an impact on people dealing with breast or ovarian cancer and other serious diseases.
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SHARE will hold a roundtable discussion on health care reform on Thursday, December 3rd at 6 PM in our main office. The program will focus on how people with breast or ovarian cancer, and other serious illnesses, might be affected (click for more information).
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I used to volunteer for an organization that serves seniors, and one of the things I heard again and again was that doctors often didn't understand enough about older people's health or the experience of aging. And worse, they sometimes were insensitive in the ways they communicated with their older patients.
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SHARE was thrilled to be included in this year's Breast Cancer Awareness commemoration at the White House.
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On Thursday, Ilene Winkler of SHARE appeared on the Rounds with Dr. Snyderman on MSNBC to discuss her experience with mammography and other screening. Click to see the show here.
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Last week, we had so much food in the office that I probably gained 3 pounds just from looking at it. We had brownies, cookies, cakes, almond bars, sandwiches, salads, three different kinds of pasta . . . not to mention the leftover noodle pudding that Alice (our Executive Director) brought in after her family's Yom Kippur break fast.
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This year's Chefs Event, the sixth annual "A Second Helping of Life," was bigger and better than ever -- at least that's what several guests told me last night as they were enjoying the fabulous food, wine, and Hudson River views at Chelsea Piers on what was a beautiful, clear night.
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Last Wednesday, a group of stalwart SHARE participants got up extra early to come into Times Square and stand in the audience at Good Morning America (we had been invited by the producers a few weeks ago).
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Fall is always an exciting time at SHARE, and this year is no different!
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