March 28, 2007

Does Your Sister Have Breast Cancer?

Filed under: The Menu Mom Chit Chat — christine @ 11:03 pm
 As many of you know, my husband’s aunt passed away from breast cancer last year.  My mother-in-law just sent me this e-mail and I wanted to pass it along.  If you know someone who has a sister with breast cancer, please pass this along.  This is a very important study and we need to get the word out.  My mother-in-law is participating and if you are eligible, I hope you will too. 

Christine 

WE NEED YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER to help us recruit women just like you!  The Sister Study needs a total of 50,000 women by the end of 2007.  We currently have 33,000 women enrolled in the study which means we need to recruit 17,000 more women by the end of this year.  Our most successful method of recruitment is through word of mouth, so this is where you can play a pivotal role today. 

Through your personal participation in the Sister Study, you are making a tremendous contribution to breast cancer research.  But we have another important request.  Please forward this email to other women, friends and family members who may be interested.  Or give them a call or a brochure about the study (call 1-877-474-7837 for brochures).  If each current participant in the Sister Study helps us recruit one other woman this year, we will reach our goal and complete our recruitment phase on time!  Remember, breast cancer affects women from every walk of life, so we need women of all backgrounds, occupations, and ethnic groups to join.

 
For women who have received this email from a Sister Study member: 

 

You may be eligible to join the Sister Study if - 

Ø      Your sister (living, deceased), related to you by blood, had breast cancer

Ø      You are between 35 and 74 years old

Ø      You have never had breast cancer yourself

Ø      You live in the U.S. or Puerto Rico

 

To join today or learn more about the Sister Study, visit the web site www.sisterstudy.org in English or www.estudiodehermanas.org in Spanish.  You may also call 1-877-4SISTER (877-474-7837), English and Spanish. All study materials are available in Spanish.  Deaf/Hard of Hearing call 1-866-TTY-4SIS (866-889-4747).

 

With our gratitude and best wishes, 

The Sister Study Recruitment Team

and

Dale P Sandler PhD

Chief, Epidemiology Branch

Principal Investigator of the Sister Study

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

National Institutes of Health

www.sisterstudy.org

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