1 L-R Carole Renouf, Louise Davidson & Jamie McPhee The Women in Super Mother’s Day Classic has broken all records again by raising $5,000,000 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF). The announcement was made at a special function in Melbourne where MDC chair Louise Davidson and ME bank CEO presented a cheque for the total raised to NBCF CEO Carole Renouf. As well as thanking Women in Super, we’d like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who participated, volunteered or donated this year. Amanda Maltabarow NBCF would like to congratulate Amanda Maltabarow who was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for ‘Service to the community, particularly through raising awareness of breast cancer’ as part of the Queen's 2013 Birthday Honours List. Amanda has been a volunteer for the NBCF’s Speakers Bureau for nine years and has worked in several streams of our charity including Global Illumination, Workplace Giving and is also one of the Speakers Bureau trainers. We are very grateful and appreciative to Amanda for her tireless efforts in raising awareness and funds for NBCF. Isabelle Shapiro NBCF would also like to congratulate Speakers Bureau Representative Isabelle Shapiro, who also received an Order of Australia medal (OAM) for services to her community. Isabelle, who is a five-year breast cancer survivor, has worked extremely hard to ensure a local voice is represented in her community.
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L-R Carole Renouf, Louise Davidson & Jamie McPhee
The Women in Super Mother’s Day Classic has
broken all records again by raising $5,000,000
for the National Breast Cancer Foundation
(NBCF). The announcement was made at a
special function in Melbourne where MDC
chair Louise Davidson and ME bank CEO
presented a cheque for the total raised to
NBCF CEO Carole Renouf. As well as thanking
Women in Super, we’d like to say a HUGE
thank you to everyone who participated,
volunteered or donated this year.
Amanda Maltabarow
NBCF would like to congratulate Amanda
Maltabarow who was awarded an Order of
Australia Medal for ‘Service to the community,
particularly through raising awareness of
breast cancer’ as part of the Queen's 2013
Birthday Honours List. Amanda has been a
volunteer for the NBCF’s Speakers Bureau for
nine years and has worked in several streams
of our charity including Global Illumination,
Workplace Giving and is also one of the
Speakers Bureau trainers. We are very
grateful and appreciative to Amanda for her
tireless efforts in raising awareness and funds
for NBCF.
Isabelle Shapiro
NBCF would also like to congratulate Speakers
Bureau Representative Isabelle Shapiro, who
also received an Order of Australia medal
(OAM) for services to her community. Isabelle,
who is a five-year breast cancer survivor, has
worked extremely hard to ensure a local voice
is represented in her community.
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Lisa Finocchiaro featured in Darwin’s Nine News in May in conjunction with the organisers of Mother’s Day Classic.
Lisa Finocchiaro Luciana Rossi appeared in the Australian Women’s Weekly in May. The magazine featured our patron Sarah Murdoch on the front cover.
Luciana Rossi & Vita
Natalie Brand featured in Issue 07 of the Mother’s Day Classic newsletter
Natalie Brand & Izzy
Angela Hanslip featured in her local newspaper speaking about her experience at this year’s Mother’s Day Classic in Perth.
Stacie Hoomans featured in this year’s Mother’s Day Boost Juice campaign
Stacie Hoomans Dr Eliza Whiteside was interviewed in relation to the discovery by Queensland Institute of Medical Research back in March. Eliza is interviewed about the significant of the research to women and the importance of continued funding for research (through NBCF).
Sarah Singer featured in the June issue of Woman’s Day
Sarah Singer
Yvonne Jex’s story featured alongside Register4.com.au in SA’s 50’s lifestyle news.
Jackie Cross is currently featured in the NBCF’s Winter newsletter-which you will be receiving in the mail shortly.
Jackie Cross and Oscar Portelli Finally, below is a photo of our speakers in Melbourne, having a great time with Australia’s first Master MasterChef , Julie Goodwin, at a luncheon hosted by our Corporate Partner BLANCO.
NBCF on Wednesday 26th June released a landmark report aimed at addressing the significant gap in information, resources and support which exists for male partners of women living with breast cancer. Co-authored by CEO, Carole Renouf, the report sheds light on the experience of male partners through case studies and a review of existing research. Issues which emerge range from a lack of information, inclusion and support through to changing relationships and concerns about employment, sexual intimacy and body image. NBCF’s objective in publishing this report is to identify and draw attention to this issue and to stimulate research into this area and encourage men to participate. The Ending the Silence report is available to download from NBCF
Dr Erica Sloan
Dr Erica Sloan had the idea to study the link between stress and cancer when she realised that yoga helped her to stay healthy during stressful times in her life.
“The way stress affects our health has interested me for a long time,” she says. “There’s no evidence that stress causes cancer, but it does appear to play a role in cancer progression.”
Thanks to an NBCF Early Career Fellowship, Dr Sloan and colleagues have shown that chronic stress may help cancer cells to spread (metastasise) in some patients.
Dr Sloan, from Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Melbourne, says adrenalin appears to be important in driving the spread of cancer. When your body is stressed, it releases adrenalin. Drugs that block the stress pathway – such as beta-blockers which are commonly used to treat high blood pressure – may slow or reverse cancer progression.
Dr Sloan mentions, that it’s too soon to suggest that people with breast cancer
should take beta-blockers to prevent breast cancer spread.
“We already know that people who happen to be taking beta-blockers for hypertension when they’re diagnosed with early breast cancer tend to do much better than people who aren’t taking beta-blockers,” Dr Sloan says. “Our research suggests that we urgently need to understand which beta-blockers protect women from breast cancer. Some of our recent work suggests that only some beta-blockers will slow cancer. Once we confirm that, it will be critical to quickly take this into clinical trials.”
In the meantime, she says there is enough evidence that people with cancer should try to relieve stress in a way that suits them. “For example, yoga and meditation help me reduce stress, but my sister prefers kickboxing. Stress relief is beneficial in many ways and there is growing evidence that it may help to block stress responsive pathways that help tumour cells to spread.”
NBCF and Inspired Adventures would like to
invite you to join us in 2014, our 20th
anniversary year, on the adventure of a
lifetime.
Picture this: You are standing on a remote section of the Great Wall, gazing out across the mountains of northern China. You have climbed steadily for hours, and now you are here. It’s incredible, more beautiful that you could have imagined.
Register4, NBCF’s online initiative to fast track research has offered 13 projects to members since launch in 2010. Members were recently invited to take part in Dr Victoria Bray’s project for ANY cancer survivor who had noticed changes in their memory following chemotherapy. The project was recruited in 24 hours and would normally have taken one year to recruit. The researcher was delighted and has since re-opened the project.
There are several projects currently looking for participants in areas including cancer and fertility, breast edema and exercise trial and treatment of post cancer fatigue. We encourage you to check projects currently recruiting
Click here to see if you or anyone you know might be suitable.
Thank you for helping spread the word about Register4 – there are now over 31 000 members across Australia. We know family and friends play a vital role in recruiting new members – we can’t build the Register4 community without you, so please keep sharing this initiative with your own community.
QUICK FACTS
Register4 is an online community of people to give researchers access to participants for their studies.
Once a member, Register4 emails approved projects members might be interested in.
Whatever you do, it’s your choice.
Anyone 18+ can join at www.register4.org.au
“Register4 is a brilliant initiative. It certainly