RETHINK BREAST CANCER CANADA

1. Metastatic breast cancer program – provide patient education resources and support for young people with metastatic breast cancer. Engages the broader breast cancer community and public in education and awareness campaigns to increase understanding and involvement in metastatic issues. 2. Rethink Real Talk patient education program – educate and empowers the community through variety of content formats—documentaries videos live-stream interviews or speaker panels with healthcare professionals blog posts including articles infographics patient stories and interviews. The program provides important information advice and tips on facing breast cancer from experts and people who have experienced it. 3. Rethink Breast Cancer Network – online and live resource for people with breast cancer to connect ask questions and seek or provide peer-to-peer support. 2 000 members. Members are periodically given advocacy opportunities through this Network. 4. Virtual Support Group – Hosted weekly for young people with breast cancer. Sessions are facilitated by a trauma-informed professional with a Master of Social Work and help participants unpack and cope with feelings they experience with a breast cancer diagnosis. Rethink hosts an average of 80 each year. 5. Improving Patient Outcomes Advocacy program – brings the patient voice and values to conversations and interactions with decision makers to improve access to treatment and care. While focused on health system change the program empowers breast cancer patients to self-advocate and actively participate in treatment planning. 6. Research Program – Rethink collaborates with many leading breast cancer researchers across Canada provide letters of support and act as a patient perspective advisor on grants such as the Reducing the bUrden of Breast cancer in Young women (RUBY) Study and promoting opportunities for the community to participate in clinical trials. Rethink also bring the patient perspective to grants to improve the care and outcomes for people in Canada from underserved populations including those living with metastatic breast cancer those diagnosed at a younger age racialized communities and new-immigrant communities. 7. Give-A-Care – is range of products designed by and developed for young people with breast cancer to help ease the physical side-effects of treatment. 8.Patient Advisors Engagement - group of 15 patient advisors. They are involved with informing and shaping the work of R

1. Peer Support Group – Rethink launched Mentoring Matters in F2024 which provides training for peer mentors to facilitate and lead virtual peer support groups. This program covers a variety of topics and provides patients with a safe-space to share their experiences and learn from each other. This program will be scaled to offer 30 sessions each year. 2. Enhanced Website – Rethink recently launched a new website with enhanced accessibility features and translation to ensure broader access. This website also has improved navigation capabilities to improve the users ability to find relevant information and connect them with appropriate resources. 3. In-Person Educational Events – With increased demand from the breast cancer community for education as it relates to body image sex intimacy and managing menopause symptoms Rethink hosted the first in-person 'Sex + Body' events in Toronto in 2023. This program will expand to Vancouver in 2024 and a lengthier more comprehensive event in Toronto