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Board of
Directors/Scientific Leadership Council Opportunity
Our organization is governed by a small
international board of directors whose professional excellence and
hard work enables Amberheart to provide high level, quality
programmes that have a positive, lasting impact on those they serve
in Canada and in Europe.
Because the organization intends to
expand its educational activities and community research programmes
to ethnic, minority and other underserved groups as well as to
develop collaborative biotech research programs, we are looking to
expand our Board of Directors and to create a Scientific Leadership
Council.
Community Events
We would like
to graciously acknowledge
the following
Companies
Our organization received laptops and other electronic equipment from the Electronic Recycling Association (ERA). The received
equipment will help Amberheart in conducting its mission and especially to improve the quality of the educational activities we provide for the community. If you are interested in the recycled electronics either to receive or to donate please visit the ERA’s website at
http://www.era.ca
We would like to thank Peoples Drug Mart for the donation supporting breast cancer awareness program for women in our community. The Company’s generosity will allow us to continue our
goal to educate women in breast cancer awareness and extending scope of the
educational and breast cancer screening activities the organization
provides to local women.
New breast self-exam workshops
offered in Port Coquitlam
By Lynn Easton - Staff Reporter -The Now
A local non-profit agency that has been concentrating its efforts on
educating women...
A course of action on breast health
By Diane Strandberg - The Tri-City News
A Port Coquitlam non-profit society wants Tri-City women to check
their breasts for lumps...
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Amberheart is an
independent charitable organization promoting, supporting and
actively participating in the eradication of Breast Cancer...
Amberheart is also
involved in research and development
training programs dealing with Breast Cancer prophylaxis...
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Breast Cancer Information
Breast cancer strikes more women in the world than any
other type of cancer. In 2006, an estimated 1,200,000
women worldwide will be diagnosed with breast cancer. In
the US an estimated 212,920 new cases of invasive breast
cancer will be diagnosed among women and over 22,000
women in Canada will be diagnosed with breast cancer...
More than 95
percent of women whose breast cancer is found and
treated in the early stage have a chance of surviving.
Vigilance and
early detection are your greatest tools in beating
breast cancer
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“take your health into your hands”
As long as breast cancer does not affect you or someone
close to you - a mother, daughter, sister, or best
friend - it’s hard to imagine thinking about it or, much
less doing something as a preventive measure.
Although every day activities usually keep your thoughts
far from a routine visit to your doctor and caring about
your own health, it is very important to find the time
for regular breast examinations and periodical
mammograms.
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Breast
Cancer and Young Women
Although
younger women generally do not consider themselves to be
at risk for breast cancer, unfortunately they can
also be affected by the disease and generally, the
invasiveness of these tumours is much higher...
In fact, one in every 230 women between the ages of 30
and 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer within the
next 10 years...
Younger women struggle with many issues including menopausal
symptoms, sexual functioning, body image, problems with
relationship, psycho-social and long-term
survivorship ...
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Prevention
& Early Detection Workshops
The
workshop is designed for all women who would like to
improve their knowledge about breast cancer, risk
factors, prophylaxis, and to learn how to perform proper
Breast Self Examination that can help discover early
symptoms or lumps.
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Inflammatory breast cancer
What you should know is that there is another kind of cancer
called inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). Inflammatory breast
cancer isn't caused by an inflammation or infection. This is a
rare type of cancer, in which breast cancer cells block the
lymph vessels in the skin of the breast.
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Learn more about breast cancer, risk factors, prevention,
treatment, and more from other sites
Breast Cancer Pages - links |
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Showing your commitment by purchasing the following
materials will help to increase breast
cancer awareness and improve knowledge amongst women. It
will also help to develop programs educating women and
medical personnel in breast detection.
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Educational Materials |
Educational Kit |
Silver Pendant |
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The
symbol of Amberheart
Foundation - based on the philosophy
of antagonism similar to the yin-yang principle, where
cold metal symbolizes the battle against Breast Cancer
and warm amber (the only jewelry stone of plant origin)
symbolizes hope and victory over the illness.
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The story of Amber Hearts
Baltic Amber is 40-60 million-year-old fossil resin from extinct pine
trees and has been regarded as the "store of life and health". We wanted
you or the people you present with a golden piece of amber to experience
the positive influence of negative ions gathered by amber and emanated
towards the body.
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