Raise Your Voice

Welcome to Raise Your Voice - a two-month campaign to drive awareness of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.

This campaign is for anyone affected by hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, including women and men with BRCA mutations, people with a family history of cancer, and breast and ovarian cancer survivors and previvors who have faced hereditary cancers.

The focal point of our campaign is the declaration of September 26-October 2, 2010, as HBOC Week and September 29 as Previvor Day.

Join Us and Raise Your Voice by:

• Print our 8 1/2 x 11 poster commemorating HBOC Week and Previvor Day and share it with your health care team; ask your doctor or genetic counselor to support in their facility; and place one at your bulletin board at work.
• Sharing your voice and posting your story and photos on our brand new HBOC Virtual Wall
• Liking us on Facebook. Help us grow our numbers and spread awareness of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer throughout Facebook. (And look for some special content during the months of September and October.)
• Learn about and promote Previvorship. Previvor was coined in 2000 after a challenge from a community member who "needed a label". Read more about the word, its meaning and its growth from a message board post to a widely used term in our Thoughts from FORCE blog and read about the original poster as she shares where she is today and her thoughts on Previvor Day
• Read and share: three wonderful books feature powerful Previvors at their center:

		Through the incredible true stories of five young friends, and interviews with more than 70 top breast cancer experts, health writer Dina Roth Port addresses the universal questions of women who have watched family members suffer from the disease and wondered, "Am I next?" Previvors: Facing the Breast Cancer Gene and Making Life-Changing Decisions is available for pre-order now and will ship by October 5th.
		The stirring true story of a woman who chose fearlessness in the face of a fatal family legacy and discovered the pleasure of living each moment to its fullest.  In What We Have, Boesky tells the story of one year in her family’s life. A year that is filled with wonderful and funny life changing moments – finding a dream house and having a new baby as well as life’s tragedies – the phone call from their parents disclosing their mother’s breast cancer. What we Have is available for order today.
		This unique and important guidebook is a single, comprehensive source of information and advice to help women (and some men) at high risk for breast and for ovarian cancer because of family history and genetic profile. One part memoir, three parts 'how to' manual, this book explains in a clear and steady manner the myths and realities of 'the breast cancer genes.' Co-authored by FORCE Los Angeles Outreach Coordinator, Joi Morris. Positive Results is available for order today.

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