Hope Lives! Breast Cancer Support Center is a small, local center in Colorado which serves a local population of breast cancer patients. Mary Golden, executive director of the center, says that the center does not receive funding from the pink ribbon campaign. Rather, the campaign symbolizes hope for breast cancer survivors. A lot of support, massage, hand-holding, and therapy goes into creating a breast cancer survivor. The women who come to the center talk about amputation, breast tattooing, nipple piercing, implants, nausea, drugs, and the fear of cancer coming back. The center offers yoga, healing touch, nutrition counseling, peer support, and a big sister program. What the center seems to offer the most of though is love. What a wonderful place for people facing such intense fear, such illness, such pain. If you are in Colorado and you have breast cancer, please call.
