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Pink Ribbon Nonprofit organization launches a tear-off notepad for breast clinics to guide the breast cancer care process 

“Your Breast Cancer Care Journey.” That’s the name of the new tear-off notepad that Pink Ribbon is launching for breast clinics. A visual step-by-step guide helps doctors and patients organize the treatment process and personalize it as needed with notes. They will be put into use starting this week.
A healthcare provider discusses the breast cancer care plan with a patient using a tear-off notepad.

When a breast cancer diagnosis is made, a complex journey begins, filled with medical terms and various stages of treatment. To support communication between doctors and patients in the exam room, Pink Ribbon is introducing the notepad “Your Breast Cancer Care Journey.”

The concept is as simple as it is effective: during the consultation, the healthcare provider goes over the various steps with the patient. The doctor can make notes directly on the sheet, indicate specific treatments, or cross them out or add them. This creates a personalized, visual, chronological overview on the spot—from diagnosis to follow-up. After the consultation, the patient takes the personalized sheet home.

A Roadmap from Diagnosis to Aftercare 

The tear-off pad clearly outlines the entire process, including:

  • additional imaging and biopsy 
  • Multidisciplinary Oncology Consultation (MOC) 
  • surgery and any necessary reconstruction 
  • chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy, or hormone therapy 
  • Follow-up and regular checks 

To make the information even more accessible, the back of each page provides additional, easy-to-understand explanations of the most common medical terms and treatments. This gives patients and their families the opportunity to review the information at home, at their own pace, and discuss it with their loved ones.

Broad expertise and distribution 

The project was launched on the initiative of Lieven Uvin, who, together with Pink Ribbon , laid the groundwork for the concept. He is also responsible for the logistical distribution to the breast clinics. To ensure medical accuracy, the nonprofit organization drew on the expertise of physician and medical journalist Marleen Finoulst, supported by the Board of Directors and the team at Pink Ribbon.

The notepads are currently being proactively distributed to breast clinics in Flanders.

Below, you can download the various tear-off notepads in different languages:

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