The diagnosis of breast cancer is usually a traumatic event in a woman's life. She is immediately thrust into a totally foreign world-with a new language, new concepts, new surroundings and new faces.
Nothing feels like it was before, and for many women the overwhelming feeling is one of aloneness.
Each woman is required to make several decisions for which she is often ill-equipped. These come at a time when she is most anxious for herself and her family and when she is still reeling from the shock of her situation. She needs to feel she has the information she requires to be fully informed about her own situation, her options and the resources and services available to her. She needs to have a medical team in place to ensure that she receives treatment and care tailored to her needs. She needs to believe that the team is concentrating on her, and not just on the cancer diagnosed within her.