Young B-Mail: A Breast Cancer Mailing List for Young Women

Would you like to talk to someone who is in a similar situation to you?
Try joining Young B-Mail

Young B-Mail is an Email support group for young women affected by breast cancer.  There is no age restriction for Young B-Mail.  Younger women with breast cancer often have special issues to deal with during and after cancer treatment.  Issues like fertility, talking to young children about cancer and working during treatment if you want to are all particular challenges for young women.

If you are facing young women’s issues, join Young B-Mail and talk to other women in the same situation.

Young B-Mail was developed with funds by the Best Breast Ball 2006.  The Ball raised over $100,000 for projects specifically for young women facing breast cancer.  The Best Breast Ball and B-Mail is supported by Greg and Debbie Castle, a young couple affected by breast cancer. 

Greg and Debbie Castle

• Greg is a physiotherapist in private practice at Westmead.  He has just completed Masters of Sports Physiotherapy.
• His wife, Debbie, was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2004.
• Greg has been heavily involved with raising awareness and funds for breast cancer - organising the Best Breast Ball.  The Ball in 2005 raised $40,000 for the NSW Breast Cancer Institute and this year's raised over $100,000 most of which went towards Public Forum 2006.

Read more about Greg and Debbie in our 2006 Venus newsletter.

Discussion - Opinion - Information

Many people want to share their experiences with breast cancer, or seek support from others who have traveled the same road. Young B-Mail provides the vehicle for global sharing, discussion and support about the topic of breast cancer. BreastNet™ established B-Mail, a Breast Cancer Email Support Service, to act as a distribution facility for comments, questions and information on breast cancer or related topics. Young B-Mail is an extension of this concept.

What our B-Mail subscribers have to say...

"I received so much support from this B-Mail network and now it is my turn to give back. Life does get back to normal..."

"The support from this site, although anonymous is a godsend, at times it is hard to tell the family how you are...the friends on this site UNDERSTAND silently"

Benefits of Joining Young B-Mail

• Rapid distribution of your questions and comments to a wide, international breast cancer community
• Regular information on the areas of interest, information and experiences of the breast cancer community
• Regular Young B-Mail email from other BreastNet users
• Update on additions to BreastNet
• Information on other breast cancer internet resources
• Email access to a network of people with interests in breast cancer

The Costs?

NONE. There is no cost to subscribe, unsubscribe or contribute to Young B-Mail.

Details

You can subscribe or unsubscribe to Young B-Mail at any time at no cost. The Young B-Mail Server collects submitted mail and posts it to all subscribers 4 times a day. We will review the regularity of this distribution based upon the wishes of subscribers.

Young B-Mail is an unmediated List Server, i.e. anything you submit is automatically B-mailed to all other subscribers. This will be reviewed depending upon usage and the content of posted articles. BreastNet editors reserve the right to delete any message deemed offensive or unrelated to breast cancer. Commercial postings will not be accepted.

Security

Your Email address will not be released to other subscribers, the Westmead Breast Cancer Institute or any other organisation or individual. Your Email address will only be posted to other subscribers if you post a letter to Young B-Mail.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe

You can subscribe or unsubscribe at any time by posting an Email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

To Subscribe to Young B-Mail, leave the subject line blank and type this text into the main body of the message:
subscribe Young B-Mail
(Do not include a signature with this message.)
You will receive an Email confirming your subscription and providing details about posting.

To Unsubscribe to Young B-Mail, leave the subject line blank and type this text into the main body of the message:
unsubscribe Young B-Mail
(Do not include a signature with this message.)
You will receive a final message from Young B-Mail confirming your deletion from the mailing list.

NOTE:
Young B-Mail is a bulletin board to support women and their families with breast cancer. The Westmead Breast Cancer Institute is hosting this service but cannot be responsible for e-mails which contain malicious viruses. Please ensure you have updated anti-virus software on your own system.

NOTE:
Some people are receiving an error message referring to an unknown command "this" when attempting to subscribe or unsubscribe to Young B-Mail using Outlook Express. To overcome this problem, in Outlook Express go to Tools/ Options/ Send and set the Mail Sending Format to plain text.

Posting to Young B-mail

Once you have subscribed to Young B-Mail you can post your questions, comments etc. at any time. Simply e-mail your message to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The message will automatically be distributed to all Young B-Mail subscribers (including you) within 24 hours.

Questions and Comments

For more information, or if you would like to comment on Young B-Mail, e-mail the editor .

Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 February 2010 13:26