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Activities:
Meetings are scheduled for the second Thursday at
12.30pm of each month, February to December (booking 12 noon to
4.00pm). Venue: Broadbeach Senior Citizen’s Centre, T E Peters
Drive, Broadbeach Qld 4218.
2008 Meetings
and newsletters commence in February.
Most meetings are
‘interactive’ with a mix of old hands and new people sharing their
stories, experience and practical information or perhaps finding out
what questions to ask medical practitioners or where to source
information or help that is needed. Regularly, scheduled meetings
will incorporate a more formal presentation by qualified speakers
providing information from diagnostics to medical treatments and
psychosocial support or self help techniques. Literature, tapes,
videos and earlier newsletters are available at meetings. Although
most people have some concerns or even apprehension about attending
"a Cancer Support Group" meeting for the first time the comment most
often heard after the first meeting is "I can’t believe that hours
have gone by, and that I’m feeling so good, relieved, less stressed,
unlike when I arrived". Feeling "better" perhaps might just be
because you are not alone.
Meeting information is
provided on the
Statewide Activities page.
Newsletters:
The meeting notice has become a two page
news-sheet distributed with the Queensland Chapter Newsletter to 450
recipients containing a mix of personal achievement stories, fun
ideas, technical information, related political or health dept.
info. or even deeper research information National and Chapter
newsletters are also available at the meetings.
Fees and Fun: Free Access to Support and
information
Both the group meetings and
newsletter are provided free of charge because we have a highly
valued mix of community support, volunteers and significant help
from the The Cancer Council Queensland.
At meetings there are
sometimes small fruit tray raffles and a gold coin dish where the
combined takings normally provide sufficient funds to cover the
meeting room charges.
Community:
The group, through
activities of individual members, plays a part in local community
activities and supports the concept that it has a role to play in
raising public awareness on a broad spectrum:
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about the disease and its
detection, prevention and control
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lack of research funding via local community
activities
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