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 In This Issue...

Focus On

Finding Reliable Information

The world of a person facing a cancer diagnosis is filled with new terminology, challenges and concerns. CancerCare can help.

Our free publications provide useful, up-to-date information to help answer your questions about your diagnosis. Find a variety of publications on our website, including:

All of our publications can be read or ordered online.

CancerCare also offers free, professional support services for people affected by cancer. Visit our website to learn more, or call 1-800-813-HOPE (4673) to speak with an oncology social worker.

CancerCare Online!

Connect with CancerCare:

Ask CancerCare

Ask CancerCare lets you submit a question to our experts on a different topic each month. This month, ask Bill Goeren, LCSW-R, questions about palliative care.

What’s Happening

7th Annual Lung Cancer Walk

On November 8, 2009, CancerCare will host our 7th Annual Lung Cancer Walk in Woodbury, Long Island. Register for the Walk today, and take an important step in helping thousands of people affected by lung cancer each year. All proceeds support CancerCare's National Lung Cancer Program. For more information, go to www.cancercare.org/lungcancerwalk.

In Their Words

The Visual Diaries workshop became a way for me to start opening up, because the focus was on the creative process, not the cancer.

—Lara P., Visual Diaries participant

During a 12-week Visual Diaries workshop conducted by the Creative Center and CancerCare in 2008 and 2009, participants learned about photography and shared their personal cancer stories. The resulting collection of images and video installations was on display at a recent gallery exhibition in NYC and illustrated the wide spectrum of experiences and emotions felt by these photographers — all young adults facing cancer — through diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.

Learn more about CancerCare's Young Adult Program.

Managing Your Cancer

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

NBCAM celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. CancerCare offers supportive services and resources to those affected by breast cancer, including:

Podcasts:

Connect® Booklets:

CancerCare Connect®

Education Workshops

Our free Connect® Education Workshops give you the latest cancer information straight from leading experts. Listen in by telephone or live streaming on the web and have a chance to ask the experts your own questions.

Workshop Calendar

Register for these workshops online, or call 1-800-813-HOPE (4673).

Missed a Connect® Workshop? Listen to past workshops as podcasts through the CancerCare website.

Give Back to CancerCare

Precision in Pink

To show their continuing commitment to support women affected by breast cancer, fine-beauty-products company Tweezerman has introduced "Precision in Pink," a 2009 limited edition Breast Cancer Awareness version of their best-selling, perfectly precise Slant® Tweezer. For every special-edition tweezer sold during the month of October, Tweezerman will donate $1 to CancerCare and other programs dedicated to fighting breast cancer. To find out where the Precision in Pink Tweezerman tweezer is sold, or to purchase it online, visit www.tweezerman.com.

You can also make a contribution directly to CancerCare to support our free services for people affected by a cancer diagnosis.

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