Today, thanks to your support, Back in the Swing has become the only grassroots nonprofit that promotes clinical breast cancer survivorship care and academic medical research. And now, as we begin our second decade, are fundraising will Educate and Celebrate!
how the funds are raised...
Our goal is to make our fundraising more educational, more informative, and more integrated in the lives of everyone who ever asked, "Now what?" after being treated for breast cancer.
how can you help us reach our goal?
how the funds are used...
When we started ten years ago, personalized, comprehensive, medical, post-treatment care for breast cancer survivors did not exist. With your help, here is how we are making this care the expectation, not the exception for everyone.
keeping our test-kitchen strong
The Breast Cancer Survivorship Center at the University of Kansas Cancer Center is the first comprehensive, clinical care breast center in the US. Today, the Center collaborates with academic cancer centers around the country in research and evaluation of clinical care models. It has taken the lead in creating a new curriculum of oncology nurse training modules (see below) and a curriculum for academic, medical institutions around the country. We are dedicated to supporting this important hub for national leadership in breast cancer survivorship healthcare and research.
providing seed funds
Just as we provided the seed funds to launch seven survivorship programs in Kansas City, our national retail therapy events helped provide seed dollars to support the nursing services and care-planning for survivors at the SUCCEED Breast Cancer Survivorship Center at the Lynn Sage Cancer Center at Northwestern University Medical Center. SUCCEED exemplifies the growing number of Breast Cancer Survivorship Centers that are leading the way in making personalized cancer survivorship care the expectation, not the exception, for every breast cancer survivor. Back in the Swing promotes the Breast Cancer Survivorship centers across the country that are offering personalized, multi-disciplinary, medical, post-treatment survivorship care.
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training oncology nurses
When you give to Back in the Swing, you are helping to support the delivery of clinical survivorship care and academic medical research, both contributing to the development of education for oncology nurses through a new curriculum called "Cancer Survivorship Training for Healthcare Professionals". A result of a collaboration of leaders in the field of survivorship, it will educate oncology nurses and healthcare providers everywhere, so that survivorship care can be accessed wherever primary cancer care exists. Our goal is to train thousands of oncology nurses and other providers over the next five years.
on behalf of america's two and one half million breast cancer survivors...thank you!