Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
United States
/ Illinois
| Health/Medical
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Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization is the only place in the world where someone touched by breast cancer can call – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year – to talk to a breast cancer survivor and be understood in 150 different languages. We started the Y-ME Hotline at a time when people didn’t talk about cancer, newspapers didn’t print the words “breast” or “cancer,” and doctors didn’t always tell their patients their diagnosis, much less discuss treatment options. Times have changed. Today, we know much more about the biology of breast cancer. Patients have changed too – they have access to potentially overwhelming amounts of data, and they expect to be partners in their own treatment. Y-ME is changing to meet the demands of today’s breast cancer patient, while maintaining a commitment to our core mission of providing peer support for patients every step of the way, because some things haven’t changed. There is still no substitute for talking to someone who has been in your shoes after a doctor tells you that you have cancer.
