Terrier racing for breast cancer

Gisborne breast cancer charity group Terrier Race Against Time ran another hugely successful fundraiser on Sunday 27 November at the Ashwood Racecourse in Gisborne.

New therapists for Kenzie's Gift

Kenzie's Gift has engaged new therapists in New Plymouth and Invercargill. We also have therapists in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Lower Hutt, Christchurch, and Dunedin. A reminder that Kenzie's Gift therapy services and free resources online are there for tamariki (children), mātātahi (young people), and their families affected by mate pukupuku (cancer), serious illness, or bereavement. 

BCAC's online AGM

All welcome! We’d love to see you at BCAC’s online AGM at 6.30pm on 8 November 2022. We’ll share our highlights over the last year and we have a great guest speaker, Dr Emma Nolan, who will tell us about her research on breast cancer for the women of Aotearoa. If you’d like to attend, please contact us at libbyb@breastcancer.org.nz and we’ll send you the link.

Our reports

Every year, BCAC produces an Annual Report and a Performance Report.

The Annual Report is written just before our AGM in November; it describes who we are, what we’ve done over the last year and what we hope to achieve in the coming year.

The Performance Report describes our financial activity and some of our quantifiable activities (outputs) over the last financial year (1 April to 31 March). As a registered charity, BCAC is legally required to have the Performance Report audited and filed with Charities Services before 30 September each year. You can see BCAC’s Performance Reports and other details in the Charities Register here.

Please click the links below to see copies of BCAC’s reports and our AGM presentations:

Annual Reports: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

Performance Reports: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

AGM Presentations: 2022

Online Q&A on Breast Cancer Recurrence

 

Hear from a panel of experts from Breast Cancer Trials (Australia and NZ) who will be discussing the latest in research and clinical trials, living with the fear of recurrence and how to manage that fear, as well as what help is available.

Click here for more info or to register for this online event held at 7-8.30pm, Wednesday 11th May

The fear of breast cancer coming back is one of the most common issues faced by people diagnosed with breast cancer.

Recurrence occurs when cells from the original breast cancer diagnosis break away and hide nearby in the breast (local recurrence), an unrelated new breast cancer occurs in one or the other breast (new primary breast cancer), or the cancer spreads elsewhere in the body (distant recurrence).

Fortunately, Australia and New Zealand have some of the best survival rates of breast cancer in the world. In Australia, the five-year survival rate is 91% and its 88% in New Zealand.

But despite recurrences usually occurring within five years after the initial treatment, the fear that cancer may return at any time in life is a very normal and common worry for most people.

Join BCT for this informative and free online Q&A.

Click here to register for this online event held at 7-8.30pm, Wednesday 11th May

 

 

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