Welcome to Beyond Boobs! - NOT YOUR TYPICAL SUPPORT GROUP for YOUNG women diagnosed with breast cancer, and where we EDUCATE and ENCOURAGE ALL WOMEN to TAKE CHARGE of their BREAST HEALTH to ensure early detection. See www.beyondboobsinc.org
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- Founded:
- October 2006
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- 1000 BY 2010!
Wherever you are!
Wednesday, December 23 at 12:00pm - BEYOND BOOBS! YEAR END GIVING ...
Anywhere you are!
Sunday, December 20 at 10:00am - BEYOND BOOBS! CALENDAR SIGNING...
Kinks, Quirks & Caffeine
Sunday, December 13 at 4:00pm - BEYOND BOOBS! Benefit Concert ...
Kimball Theatre (757-565-8588)
Wednesday, November 25 at 7:00pm - BEYOND BOOBS! DIVAS IN DISGUIS...
Norfolk, Virginia at the NORFOLK WA...
Saturday, November 7 at 6:30pm - BEYOND BOOBS! 2010 MUSTANG V6 ...
Drawing will be on Saturday, Novemb...
Saturday, October 24 at 6:15am - Beyond Boobs! & Kate Homan Ben...
Milestone Subdivision -Clubhouse- 1...
Saturday, October 24 at 9:00am - BEYOND BOOBS! Calendar Signing...
PAISLEY - The Perfect Giftdom
Thursday, October 22 at 6:00pm - BEYOND BOOBS! PINK CARPET GALA...
Williamsburg Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ki...
Saturday, October 17 at 6:30pm - PINK CARPET GALA to premier A ...
Williamsburg Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ki...
Saturday, October 17 at 6:30pm
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KINKS, QUIRKS & CAFFEINE 09 CALENDAR SIGNINGCreated about 2 weeks ago
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 12.09Created about 2 weeks ago
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BEYOND BOOBS! Calendars are now just $10 each! Order a bunch for you and all your girlfriends, and help us help young women with breast cancer and save lives too!
BEYOND BOOBS! Here IT comes. Get ready. Set. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Love, BB
BEYOND BOOBS! Wishing each of you a Healthy and Happy New Year! Treasure every day and every person in your path! Love, BB
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Our goal is to get 1000 Breast Health Manuals Disguised as Calendars in the Hands of Women of All Ages by 2010, but we need your help!
If just half our fans got one calendar and one for a friend, we'd double our goal of getting this life-saving information into the hands of women everywhere!
Thanks for supporting the wor...k of Beyond Boobs and helping us educate all women how to TAKE CHARGE of their BREAST HEALTH -- early detection is SO IMPORTANT! And you are also helping us support young women diagnosed with breast cancer! Love, Rene and Mary Beth
Get A CALENDAR TO LIVE BY 2010 & Help Us Save Lives!
Time:12:00PM Wednesday, December 23rd
Location:Wherever you are!
BEYOND BOOBS! Fans of BB - check your UPDATES for a message from us. And please ACCEPT even if you don't want to participate. That way you send us encouragement for what BB is doing! Blessings to each of you this holiday season! Rene & Mary Beth
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Check out this story from the SABCS: Breast Cancer Blog1http://breastcancer.about.com/b/2009/12/
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Dear friends,
Here is a little story that we want to share with you:
“She just recently turned 29. Her Birthday Party was in an ICU room where she has been on a respirator and feeding tube for more than a month. Her first doctor told her not to worry because at 27 she was “too young” to have breast cancer. Her second do...ctor, 6 months later, took her complaints seriously because by then the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes under her arm. He diagnosed her with Stage 4 breast cancer.
A patient navigator at one of our area hospitals referred Traci to Beyond Boobs. That’s when she met Lashon; just 26 and also diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. The two young women became fast friends – brought together by their shared ordeal, but kept together because, as Lashon says, “We love to laugh and just have fun together.” They no longer felt isolated from their age group by this disease -- they had each other.
Lashon’s cancer later metastasized to her brain, but she is doing well now on weekly maintenance chemotherapy treatments. Traci’s cancer wasn’t responding to her treatments, and about two months ago it showed up in her lungs. This is the reality of this terrible disease – and why early detection is so important.
That is why Beyond Boobs! is passionate about educating all women about taking charge of their breast health and doing what it takes to ensure early detection. And the friendship that has helped these two young women walk this road arm-in-arm? Well, that’s the blessing of our ‘Not Your Typical Support Groups’ – young women with this devastating disease helping each other live every day to the fullest and being able to forget about breast cancer, if even for awhile.”
As you consider your year-end giving, won't you please remember the work of Beyond Boobs! and help us enrich the lives of young women burdened by this disease and spread our breast health message to all women (and men). And for the person who has everything, make a gift in honor of them, note their name and address and we'll let them know.
You can donate 1) by pasting this site into your browser: https://beyondboobsinc.org/store_product
2) by check made to Beyond Boobs! Inc., P. O. Box 443, Toano, VA 23168.
You can also purchase our “breast health manual disguised as a calendar,” A Calendar to LIVE By 2010, online at www.beyondboobsinc.org.
They make a FABULOUS gift that will be a reminder that you care, all year long. And you’ll be helping us “be there” for these precious young women, while sending our breast health message to folks we otherwise might not reach.
Thank you for your encouragement, support, and enthusiasm for what we’ve been given to do! And please join our event even if you don't plan to donate or buy a calendar this year. By doing so you show you support what we are about and encourage us!
Love,
Rene´and Mary Beth, Co-founders, Beyond Boobs! Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization
Won't you please help us "be there" for young women with this devastating disease and spread our bre...ast health message to all women (and men)
Time:10:00AM Sunday, December 20th
Location:Anywhere you are!
BEYOND BOOBS! And more re the alcohol connection: SABCS: Moderate Drinking Boosts Breast Cancer RecurrenceDecember 10, 2009 A new study suggests that drinking even a few glasses of alcohol per week increases the risk of breast cancer coming back (recurrence) in women who've been diagnosed with early-stage disease.
www.breastcancer.org
→ Lower Your Risk → Research News on Risk Factors → SABCS: Moderate Drinking Boosts Breast Cancer Recurrence
BEYOND BOOBS! Here's more info from the SABCS: More Evidence that Bisphosphonates Prevent Breast CancerDecember 10, 2009 A new study found a strong association between taking oral bisphosphonates and a lower risk of breast cancer.
www.breastcancer.org
→ Lower Your Risk → Research News on Risk Factors → SABCS: More Evidence that Bisphosphonates Prevent Breast Cancer
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Hi, All. As many of you know, Rene and I attended the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium last week. Below from Breastcancer.org is a good synopsis of some of the research that was presented. Of special interest to some is the study whose findings confirmed the link between alcohol consumption and recurrence ...of breast cancer.
SABCS: No Cancer Benefit for Pre-Op Bone DrugDecember 11, 2009Research shows that Zometa (chemical name: zoledronic acid) doesn't destroy or slow the growth of breast cancer cells when given before surgery to post-menopausal women diagnosed with early-stage, hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer.
www.breastcancer.org
→ Treatment & Side Effects → Hormonal Therapy → Research News on Hormonal Therapy → SABCS: No Cancer Benefit for Pre-Op Bone Drug
Cindy Davis Any metastatic BC survivors out there on estrogen therapy? I know...sounds so wrong but new study looks promising....if you are on it, lets talk, thanks,
Lani Hasselfield-Boone
I was diagnosed early this year with invasive ductal carcinoma in situ.
I was 27 weeks preg. at the time, 31 yrs old.
I had a right mastectomy, just finished chemo and am supposed to start on tamoxifen as the tumor was estrogen dependant.
Has anyone else in their 30's been taking Tamoxifen?
So glad to have found this page btw :)
BEYOND BOOBS! Jenn Raines did it again for us with a Fabulous Calendar Signing with live music, great treats, neck massages by the Great Wolf Lodge, the Calendar Models, and lots of wonderful Christmas gifts! Thanks Jenn! If you weren't there, you missed a FABULOUS evening!
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