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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.

Angela Hanslip

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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.

Yvonne Jex

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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.

L-R Ann Hollingsworth, Tracey Ryan, Julie Goodwin, Olivia Carr, Miki Bilos, Hynda

Feldman, Joanna Page, Ann Mayor

We would like to welcome on board our

newly trained members to the Speakers

Bureau team from QLD- Jackie Cross, Tarah

Hastie, Sue MacMaster, Vicki Spanring and

Alyson Baker. Lastly from VIC- Vickie

Cummings, Chris Struck, Tracey Ryan and

Valentina Mickovski.

If you know anyone that would be interested

in attending any of the workshops, please ask

them to email speakers@nbcf.org.au

The pack contains all NBCF

brochures, Speakers Bureau

business cards, flyers and posters.

If you would like to order a travel

pack to assist you at any speaking

event, email

speakers@nbcf.org.au with the

heading: Travel Pack.

Keep a look out for

the next Speakers

Bureau training dates,

TBC soon.

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“Ending the silence for men whose partners

have breast cancer”

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

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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.

Imagine this: It is 2030, and there are zero

deaths from breast cancer.

You can make these goals a reality! Join Steps

towards a cure: Great Wall Trek 2014. Places

are limited! Find out more now by clicking

here

For more information contact Georgi at

Inspired Adventures:

D 1300 905 188 E georgi@inspiredadventures.com.au

“Breast cancer touched my life when my

sister-in-law was diagnosed six years ago.

Leaving a gift in my Will to a charity that

means something is very important to me and

my family and the vital research that NBCF

supports is very concrete, you know exactly

what you are leaving the money for.”

Maria, 45, has confirmed that she has left a

bequest in her Will to NBCF. Maria has left a

certain percentage of her estate to charities,

close to heart, one of which is NBCF.

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Gifts in Wills are arranged by people who are

making a powerful statement today about

their values and their hopes for the future.

Sharne Nicholls, NBCF’s Bequest Officer, is

available to have a confidential discussion for

anyone that may require any further

information.

Her contact details are:

Sharne Nicholls

D 02 8098 4848 or

E Sharne.Nicholls@nbcf.org.au

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

brings to my attention to research that

perhaps I wouldn’t be aware of. If I can do

anything to increase the knowledge about

breast cancer, I am fully supportive and happy

to do what I can”. (Response from member

survey, May 2013)

Review Australia launched an engaging in

store campaign to promote their new

partnership with the National Breast Cancer

Foundation.

The "Windows of Hope" promotion was

designed to help support NBCF’s aspirational

goal of zero deaths from breast cancer by

2030. For a small fee of $5.00, Review invited

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customers to write inspirational message of

hope and support on beautifully designed

vintage postcards.

The promotion offered a visually appealing

display, with an important message of hope

for breast cancer survivors.

Look out for further in-store fund raising

initiatives from Review through the year.

Help us make the newsletter for the Speakers

Bureau better by contributing comments,

ideas for articles and photos from any NBCF

fundraising events whether you have been a

participant and/or speaker. Email

speakers@nbcf.org.au