Articles, Links and People involved with Breast Cancer  

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER:
 This page provides a list of resources enabling afflicted people & their support group to review different avenues of information correlated by our paddlers.

If you know of a link, or articles of merit please use the form below to send the information to us so we may include it on this page.  Also if you find or believe one of the links below has information that is now redundant Please let us know. We are doing our best to give the best.

Welcome Breast Cancer Survivor Paddlers!!

This forum is to communicate with BCS paddlers around the world. Please let your teammates know about the forum & invite them to join.
Tell us what's happening with your team - we'd love to hear about:

BCS race dates & locations
You - including how many years a survivor & how many years you've been a paddler
Your team - name, location, number of members
Your team photo
Links to your home team's website
Team items you wish to sell
Fundraising ideas
And any other info you wish to share!
ASK questions of other survivor paddlers by sending one easy e-mail to the yahoo group!

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Sandi B-J
Starting my 6th year paddling
8 year Breast Cancer Survivor
Member of Pink Phoenix (tm) Dragon Boat Team
Portland, Oregon, USA

SA Dragons Abreast Inc.  (Word Doc)
South Australian Breast Cancer survivor team of Dragon boat racers 
Dragon Boat Club Box 109, BELAIR.  5052 South Australian
Email: Lynn Hill
 04 19 324 569 or 08 8248 2991

                                                      
November 10, 2003

  Dear Paddlers
On behalf of French Dressing Jeanswear and Grandview Marketing International, we would like to invite you to attend the second annual “International Dragon Boats for the Cure” July 16-18, 2004.

  We are proud to say that in 2003 we had 8 Breast Cancer teams and 28 corporate teams which helped raise over $81,000 for the cure.  Not only will funds be staying in Windsor/Essex County, but the “Draw for the Cure” enabled 4 Breast Cancer survivor teams to bring home $2500 each to their local Breast Cancer Centers.  This is one of the things that make the “International Dragon Boats for the Cure” a unique and special event. 

  Plans are already underway for our second annual “French Dressing Jeanswear International Dragon Boats for the Cure” in 2004.  We are pleased to announce that we have secured a new site for the weekend of July 16-18, 2004:  Sandpoint Beach at the mouth of Lake St. Clair.

  New to 2004, a “Clinic/Speaker Series” is included in the “French Dressing Jeanswear International Dragon Boats for the Cure”.  We are also very proud to announce that Dr. Don McKenzie, the renowned sports medicine physician, will be in attendance for our event.  He will be conducting clinics and will be available to speak with you.  Jane Frost, the first participant in Dr. McKenzie’s case study to put breast cancer survivors in dragon boats, is also scheduled to attend.

  One of the signature features of our event, the “Draw for the Cure”, is growing to bigger heights.  The draw is currently at $15,000. To further help increase the draw, proceeds from breast cancer survivor team registrations will be added to the “Draw for the Cure”.  For 2004 registration information please contact dkn1@sympatico.ca.

  Please start to make plans with your fellow team members about joining us in making this second annual “French Dressing Jeanswear International Dragon Boats for the Cure” in 2004 an even greater success.

  Once again, on behalf of French Dressing Jeanswear and Grandview Marketing International, we look forward to your participation in the paddle for the cure.

  Respectfully Yours,

Gerry Orum
gorum@am800cklw.com
510 Kildare Rd., Windsor, ON, N8Y 3G7         
Phone:  (519)971-9206  Fax:  (519)971-0941

November 6, 2003

ALRIGHT WOMEN/MEN, Lets do this !!!!!! :-) We need those of you who are great at forwarding on information with your e-mail network. Please read and pass this on. It would be wonderful if 2003 were the year a cure for breast cancer was found!!!! This is one e-mail you should be glad to pass on. The notion that we could raise $35 million by buying a book of stamps is powerful! As you may be aware, the US Postal Service recently released its new "Fund the Cure" stamp to help fund breast cancer research. The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. It is important that we take a stand against this disease that affects so many of our Mothers, Sisters and Friends. Instead of the normal 37 cents for a stamp, this one costs 40 cents. The additional 3 cents will go to breast cancer research. A "normal" book costs $7.40. This one is only $8.00. It takes a few minutes in line at the Post Office and means so much. If all stamps are sold, it will raise an additional $35,000,000 for this vital research. Just as important as the money is our support. What a statement it would make if the stamp outsold the lottery this week. What a statement it would make that we care. I would urge you to do two things TODAY:  1. Go out and purchase some of these stamps.

2. E-mail your friends to do the same. We all know women and their families whose lives are turned upside-down by breast cancer. It takes so little to do so much in this drive. I think we can all afford the 60 cents. Please help &pass it on.
 

11-12, July, 2003

All Western US cancer & breast cancer teams are invited to the 3rd annual Kent Lion's Club Corncucopia Days Dragon Boat Races on beautiful Lake Meridian in Kent, Wa. We have a general cancer division and are encouraging any and all teams to attend our races.  We have special dragon boat room rates at a couple of our local motels. One is on the golf course @ $69.00 US dollars complete with a great continental breakfast with eggs. The other plain, clean and large rooms @$58.45. plus a continental breakfast. Contact Cheryl Corbin -Race Director @ 253-735-6368--fax:253-735-4452-e-mail address is dandc1@juno.com

30, November, 2002

Hi there fellow paddlers
We are a team of breast cancer survivors and supporters from sunny South Australia. We are S.A. Dragons Abreast.- in association with Dragons Abreast Australia, a project of the Breast Cancer Network of Australia.
We formed just one year ago with a membership of barely 25. We raised funds and bought our own boat within a couple of months.
We traveled interstate to the State of Queensland (the Florida of Australia) for the National Dragon Boat titles where we competed (with a complete team of breast cancer survivors) in the Dragons Abreast Challenge. We won the 250 m and had a ball.
We came home to fund raise to get the team to Rome, Italy for the World Club Crew Titles in September 2002. We raised over $50,000 Australian dollars in four and a half months to get the girls to Rome, where we competed in the Breast Cancer division - we won a Gold medal in the 250m and Silver in the 500m.
We returned home to huge jubilation in our home town. We were asked to Government House for afternoon tea. Our Governor is Marjorie Jackson-Nelson a Olympic medallist in athletics - the first Australian woman to win gold at the Olympics.
We have now a club registration of over 70 paddlers both survivors and supporters, including men.
We intend to travel to Melbourne, Victoria in March 2003 for the Melbourne Dragon boat Festival and will compete in the National Dragon Boat Titles (Australian) in our home town of Adelaide in April 2003. Then it's off to Shanghai, China for the World Titles in August 2003.

We are putting a "face" to breast cancer statistics and promoting awareness - especially to young women. We celebrate life by dragon boat racing and promoting this wonderful sport.
Sadly our co-founder passed away in January and only two weeks ago our precious "Sweep" (steerer) - only 36 years old, who had steered us to victory in Rome only a couple of months ago, lost her battle with breast cancer. She passed away on November 1st.
However we are turning our "scars into stars" and showing the world that there is life after breast cancer.
We belong to our local association DASA - that's the Dragon Boat Association of South Australia - they have embraced us with lots of encouragement and support. They have trained us and cared for us.
We had our first Race day for our Dragon Boat season last Sunday. Six clubs competed and we had a fantastic day of paddling and good times.
Happy paddling everyone
Kind regards
Lynn Hill
Public Relations co-ordinator for S.A. Dragons Abreast

23, July, 2002

NEWSFLASH FROM NEW ZEALAND  

 20-07-02

Contact Person: Heather McLeish [hmcleish@peopleworks.net.nz]

The Inaurgural South Pacific Breast Cancer Regatta

What’s happening Down Under in New Zealand

Well the excitement is really starting to take hold as we begin our media campaign, which will now go on till the regattas in March 03.

A wonderful guy David at his Company cost is handling the campaign

So we are guaranteed great coverage and buildup to all the teams coming down here for the 2 regattas.

David’s company is Communique Publicity Ltd and he has planned a specific focus each month so we know that the awareness of Life after Breast Cancer will be high profile  and thriving down here before, during and after the regattas.

We have received some emails from women who live just too far from a team but are coming anyway to just join in with all the fun , competition and sisterhood.

Registration of Interest

So far the following teams have responded to the Invitation to come and race down here or made contact to get further information :

USA

·        Pink Phoenix , Oregon  (tentative list of 12 women)

·        Hope Afloat , Philadelphia

Canada

·        Chemo Savvy, Manitoba  (tentative list of 44 women)

·        Sistership , Calgary  exciting as one of the women is a Kiwi

·        Survivors Abreast , Peterborough

·        Waves of Hope ,Manitoba

Australia

·        Dragons Abreast , South Australia (tentative list of 22 women)

·        Dragons Abreast, ACT& Victoria , Queensland , Western Aust

·        Some Australian Teams are looking at combining the teams and so we have another 40 women interested.

New Zealand

14, July, 2002

NAME: Jeannie Paslawsky
EMAIL: paslaskyj@aol.com

CANCER_PAGE_NOTES:

We are a grass roots effort working for more government-provided Breast Cancer research funds. We found your site on the web and thought you and your families and friends would like to participate in our grass roots letter campaign: "Turning the Whisper into a ROAR." Though our efforts are targeted to US Gov't- we have rec'd hundreds of letters from other countries as well!! Breast cancer is a global problem.
Since October 2000, my friend, Jean Walsh (who has Stage IV BC) and I have been asking people to write letters / sign petitions to the President requesting more research funding for Breast Cancer Research. They are mailed to Jean at the address on our web site. In the first 6 weeks we rec'd over 11,000 letters. To date, our efforts have amassed over 17,000 letters. We aim to have One Million Signatures/letters by the end of this year to take to Wash., DC.
Can we do it? Yes, I know it can be done. With your help at work, at Races, Relays and Runs, through company picnics, worship groups, support groups, and boy/girl scouts, student service projects, schools' games and classrooms and each participants' family and friends; it can happen.
Please, visit our site- and write a personal letter or download our letters or use the attached "sign sheet" that I can e-mail to you. It is a clean file that I have scanned before it leaves here; you may also edit any "letter" , petition or document or create your own to participate. Leave the petition on a clip board at your registration desk. Folks who visit will sign-in and sign your petition too! Perhaps they'll take a spare copy with them. Write your own letters and mail them to Jean Walsh at the address on our site. (and on the petitions and letters) Jean counts all the letters and tallies them by state and country. Send our site to anyone you know through e-mail and ask them to visit and participate.
I have also recently written a story that will be published in a Breast Cancer book this October-- the collection is co-authored with Dr Ernie Bodai. Should you have any questions or like to contact me, please e-mail. Also- look for the article about us in the next issue of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation Newsletter (and as a link on the site)!!!!

Thank you very much!
Let's ROAR!!!
Jeannie P.
Jeannie Paslawsky
-Roaring for a Cure -
My Avocation for my friend J Walsh~
Let's not whisper about breast cancer, let's roar
http://www.arborontheweb.com/roar
Two million women have breast cancer right now. Half of them--mothers, sisters, daughters and friends--don't even know they have it. Nearly 45,000 will die this year.

30 May, 2002

Dear Ramsay,

Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tools
It is truly tragic that so many women are developing breast cancers unnecessarily -- most especially since preventive tools are now available. To avoid the ravages of breast cancers, women are urged to undergo our breast cancer risk assessment and follow our recommendations while they are still in remission or before they get sick. Using our newly developed assessment tools, let us teach you specifically what you can and must do to remain healthy. Our assessment and evaluation are tailored to the individual woman based upon her specific behavior and lifestyle.

To learn more about how you can undergo our assessment and evaluation, please contact us at info@CancerResearchAmerica.org

Dr. James Coleman
web site: www.CancerResearchAmerica.org

18th May 2002

Blind River Dragon Boat Races
The Town of Blind River Festivals Committee is working in partnership with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation in planning its first annual dragon boat races. This event will create an excellent opportunity for family and friends to participate in a fun and exciting physical activity together. Each boat, measuring forty feet in length, needs a total of 20 strong paddlers, one steersman, and a drummer. Entry fees are $1000 per boat and each paddler is requested to raise at least $100 in pledges to be donated to CBCF (pledge forms will be distributed upon registration). Over 20 boats are expected to enter in our inaugural year. The race will take place at Berthelot Park, Blind River on June 22, 2002 at 8am. For more information, please call Festivals at 705-356-2251 x24, fax 705-356-4107 or email blindriver@adss.on.ca

NEWSFLASH FROM NEW ZEALAND
14th May 2002

The Inaugural South Pacific Breast Cancer Regatta

· Dates have been confirmed as 15th-16th March 2003 for the Auckland Dragon Boat Festival, which will take place in the Viaduct Harbour, Auckland.
As previously stated in the preliminary Invitation the weekend would commence with an Opening Ceremony and Breast Cancer Teams Dinner on Friday Evening, followed by two days of competition, camaraderie and fun.

During the week there will be loads of time for sightseeing/ leisure time plus practice time available to all teams, before we all head off for another weekend Regatta in our Capital City Wellington.
Dates for this regatta 22nd-23rd March 2003.

We are working hard to ensure you will all have a great time Down Under in what will be our wonderful Summer.

So to remind you what's on offer here's the list again:

All expressions of interest in what will be a really exciting event please contact

22/03/2002

18/02/2002

Hi!

My Mom is a breast cancer survivor and is a member of the Dragon Busters in Brandon, Manitoba. She is 81 years old and I believe that she is probably the oldest racer in Canada (or the US?). Does anyone have statistics on this?

She's totally amazing and is an inspiration to all of my friends. The Dragon Boat association is outstanding and I know that it helps many women through very difficult periods in their lives. As well, it acts as an inspiration to others that there is hope!

Thank you for all your efforts. 

Roni Perotin

Hi Ramsay!

Of course, you may use my letter. However, that was not the intention of my original e-mail. I was just curious to know if there are women participating in dragon boat racing who are as old or older than my Mom.

What I said is true, my girlfriends (and their mothers) look at my Mom in awe! They cannot believe that as a cancer survivor she's not locked up in a room licking her wounds and feeling sorry for herself. Instead she's participating in a very challenging sport that is obviously high profile. My Mom has sent me a lot of newspaper articles that have appeared about her team an her. And, she's shared some very funny stories and experiences, like the day when their drummer toppled off the boat into Clear Lake (which is located in Manitoba) when they were doing a demonstration for the public. Everyone thought it was part of the "act" and clapped. The poor gal almost drowned before they realized it could have been serious.

She has a lot of fun and if I were in the same boat (pardon the pun), I would have no reservations about being a dragon boat competitor too.

She has given me some cool photos, so when I get a chance, I will scan them and send them to you to add to your collection.

Have a great day! Roni

16/02/2002

How to Ride a Dragon Women with Breast Cancer Tell their Stories Author: Michele Tocher Illustrations: Julie Dubuc Forward By: Eleanor Nelson ISBN: 1-55263-397-7 Publisher: Key Porter Books

17/12/2001
Earlier Detection of Breast Cancerous Cells.
www.discoverybiotechinc.com
Bob Vandenberg,  bobv@discoverybiotechinc.com

21/11/01
Snow Run For Fun
We have financial assistance available for diagnosed Breast Cancer patients. 
Have a look www.snowrunforfun.org
Contact Person: Kelly Shires  or phone 1-877-436-6467.

15/11/01
Information about CTI can be found on the Internet at www.cti-net.com or by calling CTI Public Affairs at (503) 594-1210

06/11/01
Webcast: Re. options to treat breast cancer.
Internet meeting 14/11/01 open for questions to specialists. Webcast organized by Dr. Mark Levine, a breast cancer specialist at the Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre and chair of a Health Canada committee to develop national treatment guide lines.

Some of the Participates are:
Dr. Mark Levine (as above and more)
Dr. Timothy Whelan 
Director Supportive Cancer Care Research Unit, Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre.
Dr. Hugh Scarth
Clinical Department Head of general surgery at St. John Regional Hospital
Dr. Maria Hugi 
Canadian Breast Cancer Network in Vancouver
Chris Emery 
Oncology Nurse, British Columbia Cancer Agency
And US
People from many walks of life with inquiring minds, a desire to improve and a touch of net savvy.

An opportunity to learn !!!

Unconventional Cancer Treatments  
(I think this document is a must read)

British Medical Journal
(assisted by Sanford University High Wire Press)
(Access to current articles related to heath in general) 

Problem based Learning Institute for Nurse Educators McMaster University
Resource Lists &  Links (An excellent access point to many journals and health related sites)

Healthology Breast Cancer Focus  Web cast and articles
(The Promise of New Medications to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk: Tamoxifen and Raloxifene)

Facts on Breast Cancer

Treatment of Breast Cancer

Age-Standardized Incidence Rates for Major Cancer Sites Stats.

New Cases and Deaths for All Cancers

New method distinguishes breast cancer types

Approval of new breast cancer drug recommended

Tamoxifen reduces risk of second breast cancer, study  

The national network and voice of breast cancer survivors
Le réseau National et le porte-parole des survivantes du cancer du sein

American Cancer Society 

The Breast Cancer Society of Canada

Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation

Canadian Breast Cancer Network

Breast Cancer Support Services, Inc. Burlington, Ontario 

  National Lympedema Network

Ontario Breast Cancer Society 

Ontario Breast Cancer Information Exchange Project

The Ontario and Quebec Breast Implant Study

Questions and Answers on Breast Cancer

Willow Breast Cancer Support & Resources

FORCE( a great set of links)

	Thank You

Ramsay Drummond Young, ramsay@dragonboats.ca
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