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Page Contents
Membership Application
BCAG NSW has about 700 members living throughout the state. Members, with various breast cancer experiences, are mainly women plus a few men.
People generally join BCAG NSW after coping with the rigours of treatment - surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and endocrine therapy. At this point they seek to help improve the experience for those who will inevitably follow.
Many members are rural women (about one third) wanting to communicate with other women who understand, and who may wish to advocate for answers to, their particular needs.
Younger women also join. Their need is to advocate their causes, contact others facing the challenges that treatments throw up for their age groups, ie: infertility, early menopause, sexuality, etc. Young BCAG NSW operates as special group within the BCAG family. [top]
Opportunities to:
- Find the best treatment and support
- Keep up to date with new research and treatment developments
- Undertake Consumer Advocacy Training, followed by back-up when required
- Become a consumer advocate or media representative
- Help influence the improvement of treatment and its availability
- Help influence the direction of research
- Receive regular newsletters on current issues and activities, new research findings, personal experiences and useful practical information
- Attend meetings, briefings and, hear speakers who are leaders in their fields
- Join BCAG NSW's special interest groups such as: Research, Treatment, Information, Advanced Breast Cancer, Rural Women, Familial and Young BCAG.
