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The Breast Cancer Aotearoa Coalition (BCAC) in partnership with Sweet Louise, Breast Cancer Foundation NZ and Metavivors NZ has launched the Gifts to the Future, He Koha ā Mua Legacy Project to enable a number of New Zealanders with advanced breast cancer to create video legacies recording the experiences of these women, as well as wisdom and insights they would like to share.
It’s hoped these video legacies will help the women involved pass on their stories, for their immediate family – partners, children, grandchildren and beyond - and help others who will face a similar diagnosis.
2020 has certainly been a year like no other and so was BCAC’s 15th Annual General Meeting – our first to be conducted online as a virtual event. Clearly everyone’s ‘Zooming’ skills have become well-honed and we had a great turnout. We were thrilled to see so many of you online with us and know that you were linking in from around the country.
Media Release 28 October 2020
Research has shown that certain lifestyle factors and health behaviours can have a positive impact upon quality of life, chronic disease risk factors and other health related areas, for women after cancer.
A team of leading Australian and New Zealand health researchers is undertaking a study to pilot a positive lifestyle intervention in New Zealand women. This aims to improve health and wellness in younger women after treatment for cancer.
The Sweet Louise Cookbook 2020
The Sweet Louise Cookbook 2020 edition is here! Featuring 40 recipes including sweet and savoury concoctions from Nadia Lim, Jacinda Ardern, Al Brown, Hannah Barrett, Kura Forrester, as well as members of the Sweet Louise community, The Sweet Louise Cookbook has something for everybody – no matter what cooking ability!
Busting With Life welcomes breast cancer survivors from across the Auckland region. There are no age restrictions and you do not need to have any previous experience with dragon boating or any other sport. For 22 years and counting, Busting With Life Dragon Boat Team has participated in dragon boat racing to make a difference, to raise awareness of breast cancer and to encourage those living with it to lead full and active lives.
Due to the Government’s movement of COVID-19 alert levels, Look Good Feel Better has postponed in-person community classes. The safety of their participants, volunteers, facilitators, and venue staff is their top priority. For this reason, all community classes are postponed until the Government advises that we are back at Level 1.
Article supplied by PINC and STEEL Cancer Rehabilitation.
More than 3000 people receive a breast cancer diagnosis every year in NZ and too many know that successfully completing treatment is just the beginning of an arduous journey back to health.
Most of us are familiar with Herceptin® – the medicine that transformed the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer in the early 2000s. Herceptin® is the brand name for this drug which is supplied by pharmaceutical company Roche. Trastuzumab is its generic name.
Roche’s patents on Herceptin®/trastuzumab expired in Europe in 2014 and in the United States in 2019. Now a number of copies of this medicine – called trastuzumab biosimilars – have been developed by other companies and are on the market. With several competing products available, their prices are highly likely to be lower than for the original drug.
