Here’s a great idea to show your company really cares this Christmas. The Good Registry’s gift certificates let your clients choose a charity – like BCAC! – for a donation from your company. It’s a great way to thank your clients and colleagues without burdening them with unnecessary ‘Xmas merch’. Click here to find out how it works.
Here’s an easy way to get Christmas gifts organised well in advance and to help BCAC at the same time. By clicking here you can buy gift certificates for those friends and family who already have everything they need, but would get a great feeling knowing they are helping women with breast cancer. The Good Registry is a great volunteer organisation set up by some Wellington women who are passionate about doing good.
Why not help BCAC as you spread Christmas cheer this year? BCAC’s partnership with The Good Registry makes gift-giving easy. By clicking here you can buy gift certificates for those friends and family who already have everything they need, but would get a great feeling knowing they are helping women with breast cancer.
Chair Libby Burgess and Secretary Fay Sowerby recently delivered BCAC’s 2024 Ministerial Briefing to Hon. Dr Shane Reti, Minister of Health. The briefing identifies priority areas for action to improve breast cancer outcomes. (You can read the full briefing by clicking here). Libby and Fay also met with Hon.…
Over the last 25 years, BreastScreen Aotearoa (BSA) has provided more than 5 million free screening mammograms to New Zealand women. BCAC is pleased to see BSA celebrating this milestone and we encourage all eligible women to take advantage of the national screening programme. All women aged between 45 and 69 are entitled to a free mammogram every two years.
International Metastatic (Advanced) Breast Cancer Day was celebrated in style with the Auckland Harbour Bridge bathed in blue, green and pink lights. Sweet Louise, a charity dedicated to supporting New Zealanders with metastatic breast cancer (MBC), hosted an event at the Royal NZ Yacht Squadron, the perfect venue to enjoy the lights on the bridge.
If you have had axillary (armpit) lymph nodes removed during breast surgery, you may have been told that you should avoid any medical procedures involving needles on the affected arm. This traditional advice was based on the idea that using needles on this arm might increase the risk of lymphoedema.
It’s wonderful news for those with HER2 positive (HER2+) advanced breast cancer (ABC) that Pharmac proposes to fund Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan, T-DXd), a breakthrough HER2-targeted medicine, from 1st January 2025.
Enhertu has been shown to keep HER2+ ABC disease stable four times longer than current treatments, and results in a longer survival time. This time is precious for New Zealand women with breast cancer and we’re delighted to see that Enhertu will be funded.
One of the biggest challenges in any diagnosis, and treatment journey, is finding positivity during very worrying and difficult times.
BCAC recently joined over twenty groups representing New Zealanders with a wide range of diseases to visit Wellington under the Patient Voice Aotearoa (PVA) banner. We met Hon. Dr Ayesha Verrall, Labour’s health spokesperson and former Health Minister, and visited Pharmac to hear Hon. David Seymour, Associate Health Minister (Pharmac) present his Letter of Expectation to Hon. Paula Bennett, Pharmac’s recently appointed Board Chair.
