(BPRW) New App Dedicated to Saving the Lives of Black Women with Breast Cancer
(Black PR Wire) Breast most cancers doesn’t have a colour however the journey, narrative, and expertise of a Black girl surviving most cancers are radically completely different from a white girl. Studies recommend Black girls should not have the highest analysis of breast most cancers incidence, but they’ve a better demise charge than different races of girls.
When Rev. Tammie Denyse obtained her analysis, she realized that Black girls had a 41% increased mortality charge than white girls with an equivalent analysis. Shaken by this revelation, she was propelled by her private want to LIVE regardless of the analysis and be there to save a neighborhood of Black girls going through the similar circumstances.
Now a 17-year breast most cancers survivor, she has devoted herself to advocating for most cancers sufferers and their households by way of the trauma of a most cancers analysis. She co-founded Carrie’s Touch with her late sister Lynne Rankin-Cochran focusing on the native faith-based neighborhood.
When Rev. Tammie realized the gut-wrenching statistic that 41% of Black girls die extra usually than white girls, she sought to perceive the the reason why.
Diagnosed with aggressive breast most cancers that had already begun to unfold, her oncologist instructed her that she might not stay to see the coveted 5-year anniversary.
She was provided to take part in a scientific trial however was shocked when her oncologist shared she was unaware of how Black girls have been responding to the trial. It was at that second that Rev. Tammie was decided to stay not just for herself and her kids but in addition to assist different Black girls stay.
In their 15th 12 months of operations, Carrie’s TOUCH launched the Survive and Thrive app. It is the first-of-its-kind app made by BIPOC girls for BIPOC girls in the battle for his or her LIFE after a breast most cancers analysis. The Survive and Thrive app goals to shut the breast most cancers mortality disparity for Black girls. They are steadfast of their dedication to reverse the staggering statistic that continues to be at present.
Rev. Tammie explains, “Being a pastor and a Black woman, focusing on the faith-based community was organic for us,” she continues. “We needed to get the word out to Black women in the community and educate them about breast cancer and the importance of early detection.”
Though breast most cancers doesn’t have a colour, the journey, narrative, and expertise of a Black girl surviving most cancers are oftentimes radically completely different from a white girl.
Black girls are burdened by many components together with lack of satisfactory assist, lack of doctor-patient belief, lack of monetary and materials sources, lack of consciousness and information and lack of training about breast most cancers and its many therapies and uncomfortable side effects.
Survive and Thrive’s objective is easy and is impressed by the breast most cancers analysis of Rev. Tammie’s private journey, the girls she serves, dedication to assist extra Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, and to humanize their expertise with breast most cancers.
Rev. Tammie says Survive and Thrive is the future of breast most cancers advocacy as a result of it’s nonetheless unacceptable that Black girls are dying at 41% increased charges than white girls.
“We are implementing tangible assist and sources for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color and making a clearer pathway of communication and understanding between affected person and physician by way of a extra complete image of the entire girl, not simply her analysis,” she provides.
Key options of the app are:
- “I WAS JUST DIAGNOSED” Page that provides a straightforward “Start Here” choice for brand new survivors.
- Meditations, affirmations, journals, and reminders created for Breast Cancer Survivors.
- Support teams, movies, monetary sources, oncologists of colour, free/low-cost remedy, and different sources.
This app is accessible on iOS units and supplied totally free by Carrie’s TOUCH
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