Newcastle Breast Centre Research Association

HUNTER BREAST CANCER EDUCATION & SUPPORT NETWORK

(A sub group of the Newcastle Breast Centre Research Association)

• Members of the Education Network are all volunteers who donate their time, professional skills and experience to educate and support not just women with breast cancer but also their families and the wider community in which these women live.
• Members of The Education Network represent a broad range of breast cancer stakeholders from both the public and private health sectors and the wider community and bring enormous breast cancer experience and expertise to the committee.
• We are passionately committed to working collaboratively to ensure that all women of the Hunter diagnosed with breast cancer and their families have access to the best information and support available, whether they are treated within the private or public systems.
• We have all either:
  • Had breast cancer ourselves
  • have been carers of women with breast cancer an are members of their family
  • professionally qualified in the treatment and counselling of women with breast cancer.
  • are associated with nationally respected cancer organisations such as The Cancer Council, Hunter Breast Cancer Foundation and The Breast Cancer Network Australia or treatment centres such as the Calvary Mater, The Breast Centre, Lake Macquarie Private Hospital & Newcastle Private Hospital.

We acknowledge the generous support of The Cancer Council NSW (Hunter Region), Lake Macquarie Private Hospital & Community members.