OMG! A Cancer Conference for Young Adults - Registration Open!!

Hey everyone! It’s official! Registration is now open for our Young Adult Cancer Conference in Syracuse!

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REGISTER NOW!

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As a note, registration will close on Thursday April 24, 2008.Let me know if you have any questions/issues - Dan (yacscny@yahoo.com)

Mark Your Calendars for the 1st Annual Central New York Young Adult Cancer Survivor Conference

I am pleased to announce the 1st Annual Central New York Young Adult Cancer Survivors Conference. This event is being established and supported by the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society of Central NY, i2y, YACS-CNY, and other Central NY organizations.

This FREE conference will be for ALL cancer types, not just blood cancers, and is for young adult cancer survivors aged 18 - 40. There will be presentations, discussion groups, information booths, food, and other useful activities for educating young adult survivors and their caregivers. Our special guest and key note speaker will be Matthew Zachery (the Founder and Executive Director of I’m Too Young for This (i2y)). This is a great chance to learn something new and network with other local young adult cancer survivors.

When: Saturday May 3, 2008
Where: Onondaga Community College (OCC) Syracuse, NY

For more info check out the conference site: http://cnyyoungsurvivors.wordpress.com/

Our First Get Together

All - Due to location difficulties, attendance, etc. this event is being canceled until after the new year.  An updated post will be made here when the time and place is decided.   Please let me know if any preferences.  - Dan  

Time: Cancelled

Place: We are working with a couple places right and will post back here soon. If you know restaurants, coffee shops, or pubs that could host (or if you have a preference) please post a comment or send an email.

RSVP: If you plan on attending please post a comment here to let me know how many people to expect.

A YACS Plug :-)

Trisha Torrey over at Every Patient’s Advocate gave us a little plug on her blog last week. Thanks Trisha!!

Trisha is from Baldwinsville, writes for the Syracuse Post Standard (as well as other papers and web sites), and has a series of web sites centered around being an advocate for every patient (hence the name). Check out all the great resources and information she has pulled together over at Every Patient’s Advocate. You can also check out her list of sites and blog here.

- Dan

Hello!

Are you a cancer survivor living in Central New York and between the ages of 18 and 40? If so, read on.

A new social group is forming in central New York for young adults (ages 18-40). This group is the Young Adult Cancer Survivors of Central New York.

My name is Dan and I, like you, am a young adult cancer survivor living in Central New York. Central New York is a great place to live and work with all sorts of support and care for those dealing with cancer. Unfortunately one thing that is missing is a fun social environment to meet and interact with other young adult cancer survivors.  In the past we have only interacted in treatment centers, online, at fundraising events, or via the occasional phone call.

We need to add to these great services and interactions by working together to change our local cancer community into one that is more social and less isolated.  I have talked to many people that had no idea there were so many young adult survivors in CNY.  Many of these people are survivors themselves and have felt isolated during their treatments.According to the National Cancer Institute 1 in 10 cancer survivors is under 40 and since there are over 10 million cancer survivors in the U.S. that means there are 1 million people under 40 in the U.S. that can call themselves cancer survivors.  With numbers like that there have to be quite a few of us here in CNY, not to mention all of our supporters.

So, what we can do about this? Let’s use the power of the internet to help build our cancer community locally. Young Adult Cancer Survivors of CNY is a social group for young adults with cancer (and their supporters of course) in the Central NY area. We are trying to focus on the social and living side of being a survivor. That being said, by building this community of survivors in our local area we can find the support we all need, in yet another way. Through meet-ups and other social events we can all see that we are definitely not alone in this journey.

We are currently in the process of expanding our website to provide information to everyone interested in this group. The site includes ways to connect with others locally, online discussion forums, links to both local and national resources, and we have space for whatever else you want to see.

If you are interested in joining up or finding out more before we get everything posted please drop me a note. Heck write a comment just for the fun of it!

I hope to hear from you soon!
Dan