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Preparing for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
September 12, 2022
Categories: Breast Cancer, Business, Custom Breast Prosthesis, Legislation, Let Her Decide
It’s mid-September, and that means it’s time to start preparing your shop for Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) in October. Whether it be sponsoring or participating in events and fundraisers in your local community or making yourself the go-to source for information in your community by posting Breast Cancer Awareness Month-related posts, take advantage of this opportunity to ask for support of the legislation that affects your patients and your business, including the Breast Cancer
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Spread the Word about Custom Breast Prosthesis During Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October 8, 2021
Categories: Breast Cancer, Custom Breast Prosthesis, Legislation
It's already mid-October, and your shop is probably decked out in pink with a flurry of activity from women shopping for their Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) shirts, pins, and gear. As people rush to run in a 5k benefit or ask what they can do to help further the cause, now is a great time to ask people to support the legislation that affects your patients and your business, including the Breast Cancer Patient Equity Act and the Lymphedema Treatment Act. Over 3.8 million women in the
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Breast Cancer Patient Equity Act Update: Advocacy in October
September 8, 2021
Categories: Breast Cancer, Custom Breast Prosthesis, Legislation, Let Her Decide
August of Action is officially over, and we are all prepping for the busy season, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. During the month of August, Essentially Women hosted a virtual fly-in to discuss the Breast Cancer Patient Equity Act with EW members, Senators, and Representatives from several different states. Overall, we had 12 EW members reach out to EW and VGM Government Relations to schedule meetings with their members of Congress. Nine
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Chu & Walorski Re-Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Expand Coverage for Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors
May 11, 2021
Categories: Breast Cancer, Custom Breast Prosthesis, Essential News, Legislation, Legislative, Let Her Decide
May 11, 2021 WASHINGTON — U.S. Representatives Judy Chu (CA-27) and Jackie Walorski (IN-2) today re-introduced legislation to ensure breast cancer patients and survivors who have experienced a mastectomy are able to access custom breast prosthetics under Medicare. The Breast Cancer Patient Equity Act would provide coverage for custom fabricated breast prostheses, the only human body part not currently covered by Medicare, to the more than 144,000 women who undergo mastectomies annually. “Breast
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Nominations are now being accepted for the Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women (ACBCYW)
January 6, 2021
Categories: Breast Cancer
By: Nikki Jensen, Vice President, Essentially Women The Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women (ACBCYW) is now accepting nominations to create educational initiatives for young women diagnosed with breast cancer. These initiatives are intended to provide advice and guidance to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS and Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Guidance may be in the form of public and
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Member Spotlight: Brittney Gray with Revamped Beauty
January 5, 2021
Categories: Breast Cancer, Business, Compression, Lymphedema
By: Brittney Gray, Founder and Owner, Revamped Beauty Revamped Beauty is a 501c3 public charitable organization in Birmingham, Alabama. Our mission is to empower men and women to live their most beautiful lives in the face of a breast cancer diagnosis by providing access to specialized medical equipment and services. Revamped Beauty works in our community to spread awareness of the obstacles that patients endure after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. We focus on providing resources that help
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Member Spotlight: Celebrating Strong Women During Breast Cancer Awareness Month
December 3, 2020
Categories: Breast Cancer, Essential Advantage, Essential News
October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we celebrated by hosting a podcast and interviewing Lori Miller, manager at Naturally Yours, an Essentially Women member in Illinois, as well as Jamie Lee, who is not only a breast cancer survivor but a business owner, a model who has walked the runway, and a force to be reckoned with. We wanted to highlight the strong, amazing women who impact this industry every day and who have not only conquered breast cancer, but have dominated it. You can listen
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It’s Time to Reengage with the Breast Cancer Patient Equity Act
May 29, 2020
Categories: Breast Cancer, Custom Breast Prosthesis, Essential News, Let Her Decide
Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, Washington, D.C. and progress on many legislative issues came to a halt. The country is beginning to open back up and non-emergent surgeries are taking place again. Because of COVID-19, now more than ever women will be looking for lower risk and non-surgical options after a mastectomy. It is incredibly important that breast cancer survivors have all the reconstruction options available to them after mastectomy surgery, whether that be surgical reconstruction,
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Cure Today: Cancer Death Rates Dropped More in States That Expanded Medicaid Under Affordable Care Act
May 18, 2020
Categories: Breast Cancer, Essential News
Cure Today recently published an article that highlighted the results of a nationwide study presented during a 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program press briefing.These results revealed that the death rate from cancer dropped more in states that expanded Medicaid coverage than those that didn’t following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. According to Cure Today, authors of this study say it was the first of its kind to examine cancer mortality in the wake of
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We Need Your Help! Let Her Decide Congressional Call-In Day April 15
March 19, 2020
Categories: Breast Cancer, Custom Breast Prosthesis, Essential News, Event, Legislation, Let Her Decide
The House of Representatives and Senate are both in session on April 15, 2020. Let’s make our voices heard and call our senators and representatives asking them to sign on to support S. 562/H.R. 1370, the Breast Cancer Patient Equity Act. The breast is one of the only body parts not covered by Medicare as a custom prosthetic replacement! Women deserve to make the choice for themselves. Please note, the call-in day that was scheduled on April 1, 2020 will now take place April 15, 2020 due