The Mount Sinai Breast Health Resource Program (BHRP) is dedicated to meeting the emotional and practical needs of women and men with breast cancer through individual and group counseling by social workers and trained volunteers. These services are provided free of charge to anyone who needs them. With breast cancer as the most diagnosed cancer in women in the United States, and with New York State trailing behind only California in the number of annual breast cancer deaths, the Breast Health Resource Program provides a much needed source of support to women and men with breast cancer and their families.

The Mount Sinai Breast Health Resource Program provides individualized cancer support services within the context of each person's life experience. Our programs are patient needs driven, and our goal is to meet the shifting and critical needs of patients throughout the continuum of the breast cancer experience. Patients coping with a breast cancer diagnosis must gather treatment information, evaluate treatment options and outcomes, and make life-altering decisions as laypersons in a pressured and limited timeframe.

Thirty-two percent of women diagnosed with cancer in 2004 will be diagnosed with breast cancer, making it the leading cancer diagnosis in women. Fifteen percent of women (40,110 women) with breast cancer will die of it in 2004. Lung cancer is the only type of cancer with a greater mortality rate. In New York alone, 2,820 women will die of breast cancer this year, and 15,190 women will be diagnosed with it. A woman’s lifetime probability of getting breast cancer is 1 in 7.

Having non-judgmental and informed professionals to help guide them through this process is crucial. The BHRP environment is a calm, non-medical and intimate enclave for the overwhelmed patient where she or he may obtain support and knowledge. From insurance concerns to family issues, our social workers will be your guides and advisors.

Among Friends is the newsletter of the BHRP. Click here to read it on-line.

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