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Breast Cancer Support Services

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The Y-ME Hotline is our core service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, where you can talk to a breast cancer survivor.

Y-ME also offers other support services.  Whether you are looking for a wig or prosthesis, reading material and important resources related to breast cancer, or are looking to join a breast cancer support group in your area, Y-ME can help.
 

In this section, you can learn about Y-ME’s support services and how to find the resources you need:

Y-ME Hotline
The only place in the world to call 24 hours a day
and talk to a breast cancer survivor and be
understood in 150 languages.

Wig & Prosthesis Program
The Wig and Prosthesis program ensures that all women, regardless of income, receive all they need to feel “normal” again.

Survivor Match Program
Y-ME pairs callers with peer counselors who share
a commonality in diagnosis, age, or experience.

Breast Cancer Support Groups
Y-ME has several support groups across the country to assist patients in peer support.

Partner Match Program
Y-ME provides support for those supporting a wife,
partner or other loved one through the disease.

Gerry Weinberg Library
The library has over 200 books to lend to anyone concerned about breast cancer. 

 

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