No need in breast forms?

galena

For a while I search where to donate several ptactically unused breast forms 38 b/c.

I am sending e-mails to Cancer Treatment Centers of America, other organizations- no reply. Everybody accepts only money as donations. Can not find anybody. May be there is a need in other countries?

Can not believe that I will have to throw them away.

mthomp2020

If you go down a little further in this forum, there's a topic that reads "A home for unused breast forms".  There's a woman here that collects them and sends them out to people who need them.  Here's the link to the thread:

http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/82/topic/601087

OOPS!  Never mind!  I just checked and you already posted on that thread!

hymil

Okay there was a thread a few weeks back on the uk sister-forum about this. Not sure if I can do it but will try.

www.breastcancercare.org.uk > community > forums > Living with BC > after treatment has finished > Unwanted breast prosthesis Topic started by Sax Lady on Weds 21 Oct 2009

See especially the reply from Poppy the moderator.

Sorry i can/t do it more elegantly than that Im not a technowizz at the best of times and its after midnight over here. I hpe that gives you enough to find it Good luck

lvtwoqlt

Galena, I asked the shop where I purchased mine and they have a special project where they accept these slightly used forms and give them to women who don't have insurance to cover their breast forms.

Sheila

otter

You might try the local (or regional) office of the American Cancer Society. 

When I was shopping around for a wig just prior to losing my hair from chemo, I went to an ACS office near where I was being treated.  They not only had wigs I could try on and keep, but also several breast forms that had been donated.  I think the breast forms were outdated styles that had been given to the ACS by a local mastectomy supply store.  The ACS folks gave me one, which I took home but never wore.  (I found out it was the stick-on kind, which I didn't want.)  So, I took it back to them a month later, and they accepted it, no questions asked.

At least you could give them a call.  They might take a slightly-used breast form if it looks like new and you still have the original packaging for it. 

otter