Women with breast cancer have for a few days a tool more than support for. Coinciding with the celebration of World Cancer Day, on February 4, the Cadiz Association of Women with Breast Cancer (Agamama) launched a new digital platform, called Trust space, “with the objective of accompany to anyone who is going through a process of breast cancer and help them feel better “, in the words of the coordinator of Agamama, Mª Paz Ríos.
The idea of this platform, according to Ríos, is that “it is something useful: that a woman with breast cancer, in this time of confinement, has a space of trust where she can consult how they have lived the different stages of the disease other women who have already overcome it. “
So, Trust space –Which can be downloaded to the mobile phone– offers several videos in which women who have had the disease tell your experience; there are also written testimonies of relatives of patients. In addition, it introduces some of the professionals who treat breast cancer at the Puerta del Mar Hospital in Cádiz and those who care for patients in Agamama, who, through videos, offer advice on the different treatments that a woman with this pathology undergoes, advice to deal with the process emotionally and also on physical care. There is another section with videos dedicated to image care for increase self-esteem.
Mª Paz Ríos comments that the platform has been launched with these contents, but will be expanding with new ones, because they want it to be “something alive.” It affirms that these contents will also be disseminated through social networks.
It should be noted that the platform has a section called Tell us your story, through which the person who wishes can contact Agamama “and we will help her in whatever she needs.”
The coordinator of the association relates that this project arose from the covid-19 pandemic. In the entity, they saw that could not interrupt the services they offer because women with breast cancer needed them. So, they thought that both psychological care and physical activity could do them through video calls or phone calls.
It indicates that, in addition, the University of Cádiz proposed to the entity to carry out a emotional wellness workshop for women with breast cancer, which they finally carried out in October and the association has continued to do so subsequently.
“We saw that the patients adapted well to telematic care and we realized that what is really important is keep in touch, even if not physically; we discovered that there is other possibilities that we had not contemplated until the covid has arrived, “says Mª Paz Ríos.
Just when they were at that moment, he contacted Agamama the Kiabi Foundation, who met the entity through a worker who had suffered the disease. They asked if they had any national projects to start and, thanks to the collaboration of a volunteer, it occurred to them to present Trust space, which was chosen to allocate the funds of the campaign October Pink by Kiabi.
In this way, the platform is open “to all women with breast cancer in Spain who need us to accompany them at this time “, expresses Mª Paz Ríos, who points out that with the creation of Trust space, “the idea was to do an Agamama in ‘network’ and put our experience of more than 20 years available to any woman who needs it and to her family members. “
The entity’s coordinator highlights that more than 20 people are part of this platform, between professionals and women who have experienced breast cancer.
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