It has been a long while since I have written, but I wanted to share some thoughts I have regarding the potential closing of the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program. This program has been in place for 28 years. Without a doubt, it has impacted and saved countless lives-more than we will ever know-with care, concern,... Read more
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Marc Heyison on Breast Cancer
Wednesday, February 27 2008
I have just returned from the 8th Annual Conference for Young Women Affected By Breast Cancer, which took place in Jacksonville, FL last weekend. It's a great event sponsored by Living Beyond Breast Cancer and the Young Survival Coalition, and for the first time, it was also sponsored by Komen For the Cure. I was duly in awe of the men and... Read more
Men Against Breast Cancer has been fortunate enough to be invited the past two years to present our Partners In Survival Workshop as a break out session at the Annual Young Survivors and Living Beyond Breast Cancer National Conference, this year in Jacksonville, Fl. As the President and Cofounder of Men Against Breast Cancer, this is... Read more
When Men Against Breast Cancer hosted the first National Male Caregivers Conference in 2006, skeptics said we would not be able to get men to attend a conference that was for men only, where the primary focus was to educate men to be there for the women they love. Well, as we suspected, we proved the skeptics who underestimate how great men... Read more
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Marc Heyison on Breast Cancer
Wednesday, December 05 2007
When the oncologist proclaimed that my mom's cancer had returned, my reaction was not all that different from my reaction to her initial diagnosis of breast cancer: I felt like someone had kicked me in my teeth and punched me in the stomach at the same time. Lucky for me and my family, the recurrence (metastatic breast cancer) ultimately... Read more
