Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization (briefly known as Breast Cancer Network of Strength), or Y-ME, is a Chicago-based national nonprofit organization with the mission to assure, through information, empowerment and peer support, that no one faces breast cancer alone. Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization does not fund research but does advocate for research.
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization's headquarters is in Chicago, but it has support groups throughout the United States, which provide peer support, educational programs, and coordinate advocacy efforts.
Y-ME's main program is the Y-ME Hotline, the only multilingual 24-hour breast cancer hotline in the country, staffed entirely by trained peer counselors who are breast cancer survivors.
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