A group of women either living
with or touched by breast cancer met in the fall of 1997. From
our experiences with breast cancer, a wish list of what is needed
after diagnosis was created. An Iowa Breast Cancer Resource
Guide seemed like the first step in attaining our wish list.
We wrote and published the first "Iowa Breast Cancer Resource
Guide" in 1999. It was updated in 2000. In 2003, and again
in 2007, we partnered with the Black Hawk County Health Department
and Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Inc. (formerly Covenant Health
System) to revise and update the Guide.
After the success of the first Iowa Breast Cancer
Resource Guide we became concerned about the many Bosnian immigrant
women who were new to our community. After finding no breast
cancer treatment information resources anywhere in the U.S.A.
for Bosnians, we had the American Cancer Society Booklet "For
Women Facing Breast Cancer" translated into Serbo-Croatian.
The translation is offered free to Iowa Bosnian women and can
be downloaded free from our website.
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