Living Beyond Support Group for Women with Advanced Breast Cancer

Living Beyond, a support group for women with advanced recurrent or metastatic breast cancer, is offered by Baptist Hospital East and Gilda’s Club. The group meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. April 2012 meetings will be Wednesday, April 11 and Wednesday, April 25 from 4-5:30 p.m. at
Gilda’s Club, 633 Baxter Ave. Group members are encouraged to interact among themselves and with the facilitators. Education and information comes in as it arises from the group sessions. Facilitators are JoAnne S. Morris, Baptist East’s Oncology and Palliative Care chaplain, and Tara Schapmire, an oncology social worker. The group is open to women who have been diagnosed within the last two years with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer. Advanced recurrent and metastatic are two categories of advanced breast cancer. Breast cancer is categorized as recurrent if it recurs in the same area, while the spread of the breast cancer is known as metastatic. Symptoms of each can include a lump, change in breast size or shape, and more, although many times women have no symptoms. For more information, contact JoAnne Morris at (502) 896-7112.