Dr Susan Love to speak at October 2007 conference

Breast Cancer Network NZ Inc Media Release 2 April 2007

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Breast Cancer Conference for NZ Women
Dr Susan Love confirmed as the keynote speaker

New Zealand’s first national conference for women with breast cancer will be hosted by the Breast Cancer Network (NZ) in Rotorua in October this year. The three day conference will open with internationally acclaimed breast surgeon, breast cancer researcher and women’s health advocate, Dr Susan Love, as its keynote speaker.

“Breast Cancer Network is thrilled to announce that, with the support of The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation, Dr Love will speak at the conference in October,” said BCN Chairwoman, Barbara Mason.

Dr Love is one of the pioneers of the breast cancer advocacy movement and has spent her entire adult life working in the field of breast cancer. Perhaps best known in New Zealand as the author of Dr Susan Love’s Breast Book, now in its fourth edition, she also founded the Susan Love Research Foundation, the main aim of which is to eradicate breast cancer in our lifetime.

Dr Love speaks at many international breast cancer conferences and symposia and New Zealand’s Breast Cancer Network is immensely privileged to have secured her as keynote speaker for our own conference for women with breast cancer.

“Ahu Whakamua Tatou: Moving Forward Together is the conference theme and it couldn’t be more appropriate,” said Dell Gee, one of the conference organisers. “This conference is convened and organised and for those who have experienced, or who have been affected by breast cancer.”

In preparation for the conference, Breast Cancer Network held discussion groups throughout the country to find out what New Zealand women wanted from their first conference. While the outcome of these discussion groups guided the development of the conference programme, they also revealed numerous inspirational women who have had breast cancer.

Together with breast cancer experts from many disciplines, some of these women will share their journeys, and their strength, to help empower other women and their supporters to fight this disease for themselves and for their daughters and granddaughters.

The conference sessions will combine presentations by speakers across the breast cancer spectrum – from detection and diagnosis, to treatment and adjusting to life after breast cancer and looking at whether there is an environmental link to breast cancer – with workshops and a creative expo by breast cancer survivors. The creative expo will bring together the talents of the many women who have survived breast in a way that shares their unique journey.

More information for prospective registrants is available on the BCN website www.breastcancernetwork.org.nz/ and from Breast Cancer Network (NZ) and the conference convenor:

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