Session: Networking: Young women

Facilitator: Laura Royse, LCSW

This 90-minute concurrent networking session will provide an opportunity for
young survivors and previvors to discuss their challenges with other women in their situation. The session will include discussion of:

• challenges of being single/dating
• challenges of family planning
• fitting risk management decisions into a busy life
• coping with a lifetime of risk
• coping with friends and family who don’t understand what it feels like to be high-risk

There will be opportunity for individuals to discuss and share with the group their
own experiences being young and high-risk, and how they are meeting this challenges. The session
will provide the opportunity for peer-to-peer support and networking.

This session is appropriate for

• young women who carry a BRCA mutation or who are high risk for cancer due to a family history
  of cancer
• parents/relatives/loved ones of young women who may carry a BRCA mutation
• patient advocates and support group facilitators who work with people with a BRCA mutation or
  hereditary cancer in the family
• health care providers who provide care to young women with BRCA mutations
• social workers/mental health care professionals who treat people with BRCA mutations

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