This February, in honor of Black History Month, SHARE is excited to highlight our rich program of initiatives by and for Black women. As Christine Benjamin, SHARE’s VP of Patient Services observes, "For too long, disparities in health care and outcomes for people of color have existed.

This month, we are excited to profile longtime SHARE Ambassador Coordinator, Agnes Rita Fortune. Rita first came to SHARE more than 12 years ago after participating in a breast cancer fundraising walk where she met a SHARE support group facilitator.

This Cervical Cancer Awareness Month we’re talking about HPV. Robin, Rheanna, Maggie, and Shanon share their experiences getting vaccinated.

Comment below what your experience is with the HPV Vaccine. Have you ever got it and what are the myths you’ve heard about it?

My name is Ann Reisig.

Religiously I go for my annual mammography's and sonograms. I had my annual on November 26th, 2021. I was on top of the world when I started a new hybrid job on December 13th, 2021.

Then I get a call from my doctor telling me that I have to go in for further imaging because they saw something suspicious.

It’s Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and this January, SHARE is celebrating the one-year anniversary of our cervical cancer program! In just one year, SHARE has launched a support group, helpline, education programs, and a comprehensive outreach program.

With no history of breast cancer in my family, it was something I wouldn't think would happen to me. It was out of theordinary to feel the sharp pain. I shrugged it off at first until I felt something in my breast. I was confident it was an abscess because I'd had one before.

In 2006 just before I turned 65 years old, (in the few years before had operations: two basel cancers on face and one melanoma cancer on leg), I was diagnosed with breast cancer in my left breast. "Invasive mammary carcinoma with lobular features, PET scan shows a hypermetabolic left axillary lymph node," from report.

SHARE’s LatinaSHARE Outreach Ambassadors reach 30,000 people each year in their own communities with life-saving information in Spanish about signs, symptoms, risk factors, screening and treatment options. In neighborhoods throughout New York City, women and families are able to learn about breast, metastatic breast, ovarian, uterine and cervical cancer - at health fairs, churches, food pantries, senior centers, consulates, and schools.

We interviewed three of SHARE's support group participants to share their stories and spread awareness of our free resources, which are open to anyone and everyone affected by a cancer diagnosis.

Interested in joining a support group? Find one that works for you here.

Article by: Megan-Claire Chase and Steph Poland

Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) may spread to any part of the body. The most common areas tend to be the bones, liver, lungs, and brain. Even after cancer spreads, it is still named for the area where it began.