Resources

Supporting organizations:

• Breast Cancer Action
• NewLifeAfterCancer.org
• BreastCancer.org
• Breast Free
• Keep a Breast Foundation

Beautiful, tasteful apparel that is not from your grandma’s closet:

• Nicola Jane bathing suits
• Fig leaves bathing suits (really, that’s the name…)
• Chikara Designs
• Rhea Belle apparel

Sewing Patterns that are feminine and flowing

• Modern casual dress with ruffle front 
• Super sophisticated one shoulder dress
• Blouses
• Knitted top

Novelty breast forms

• Micro bead Breast
• Knitted Booby
  

Cool compression sleeves (and gauntlets) for Lympedema

• Lympedivas (you can find these at other sites, prices vary.  Needed for airplane travel, etc.)

Wonderful websites

• Beauty & the Breast
• The scar project
• Breastfree

Studies

• Healthy Breast Risk article
• Multicentric unilateral disease
• Risk of contralateral disease
• Unilateral & Bilateral – a case control study

Trials you can help with – even cancer-free

• Breastcancertrials.org pairs potential subjects with open studies; enter your zip code to find one near you.
• Join the Love/Avon Army of Women to help breast-cancer researchers find matches for their clinical trials. More than 45,000 women are currently participating in more than 40 breast-cancer studies.
• The Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank at the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center is the first and only healthy breast-tissue bank in the world. All the tissue collected — they’ve got samples from more than 1,500 women so far — will be put online for scientists worldwide to use in their research. Visit komentissuebank.iu.edu to donate yours, and be part of the cure.