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We want to reach out to as many women as we can in need of support
who are battling breast cancer. In order to accomplish this we need
your help. Please let us know of the names of Breast Centers and
hospitals in your regional area who provide care and treatment to women
with breast cancer. We will mail them information about our
organization and the services available. If you wish to deliver a
supply of brochures and educational material to them on MSDBC's behalf
it would be greatly appreciated. This will give you an opportunity to
alert medical staff to your role as a mother volunteer and educate them
about additional resources available through our organization for their
patients and families. Thanks, in advance, for your help!
   The two primary ways that MSDBC raises money to be able to continue its work is through an annual solicitation letter (done around Mother's Day) and through the sales of breast cancer awareness items. The items we sell have been specially made for MSDBC and are exclusives. If you haven't seen them, feel free to visit our website and look at the photos of them on display. Only one item is not shown and it is one of our most popular. It is called "Transformation art" and shows a pink ribbon being metamorphically changed into a butterfly. For copyright purposes we can't display it. Our vice president, Lillie Shockney, who is a registered nurse, breast cancer survivor, and national speaker on breast cancer, does a lot of speeches all across the country. When possible, she takes with her the MSDBC items and literature and displays and sells them after her talk is completed. Though some of her speaking engagements are for specific organizations that restrict the public from coming, quite a few are open to the public. Below is a partial list of where she will be in the coming months. Bookings for speeches are added weekly so this list is always subject to change. For a complete list, please visit the Lillie Shockney: Nationally Recognized Speaker website displaying her speaking engagements which will be routinely updated. If she is in your area, we hope you will make an effort to attend! If there is a breast cancer organization, support group or breast center in your area who wants to have her come and speak, feel free to pass her number, (410) 833-1837, onto them. Her favorite presentation is "Using Humor as a Weapon Against Breast Cancer." To hear an audio version of one of these presentations go to the following web site address: http://www.med.jhu.edu/breastcenter Click on the icon down the left hand column of the home page that says Listen to our Survivors. 
Lillie Shockney's Upcoming Speaking Engagements   
Research has certainly been making some rapid break throughs in the past two years, but much more is needed before we will have all the answers we need to stop breast cancer. As more drugs and therapies, including gene therapy, are being developed, the baby boomer generation is entering mid-life. Why does this matter? Because the average age for developing breast cancer is 55 and by the year 2010, it is predicted that there will be more than half a million women diagnosed beginning that year. This is because baby boomers represent the largest population in the United States. What can we do? Promote more dollars to be targeted for breast cancer research and encourage more women like ourselves and our daughters to become active in the groups who are the decision makers about how these research dollars will be spent. So get familiar with your legislative representatives in your community and find out what issues they are working on. If breast cancer isn't one of them, help to get it on their radar screen. We need to for our daughters, for our granddaughters and for ourselves... 
Have you seen it yet? The new breast cancer research stamp? It is
available at your local post office now! The stamp, which has a painting
of Artemis, a Greek Goddess who had one hundred breasts and was known as
the protector of all women, costs 40 cents. The stamp, itself, is worth
32 cents with 8 cents being donated to breast cancer research. Though
it now costs 33 cents to mail a letter, it is definitely worth the
effort and investment to purchase this research stamp and add a one cent
stamp to the postage. Please encourage others to support this research
funding raising effort as well.   
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