About Thursday Girls

Thursday Girls is a not-for-profit organisation, a mutual aid group established to facilitate mutual support for women living and dying with metastatic breast cancer.

This is achieved by taking into account their physical, psychosocial, emotional and relevant informational needs – primarily through a therapeutic group experience and through close supportive relationships and communication between the members. Support for their families is offered to supplement the help provided.

Thursday Girls comprises a warm, supportive and inclusive community of women who are living with advanced breast cancer, and a group for their partners. This cancer is incurable, but due to ongoing improvement in treatment options, many women are able to live satisfying, productive lives for many years. The Thursday Girls program includes a weekly therapeutic support group for women, and a similar group for their partners. The groups have two main functions: to share information and create meaningful relationships with people in similar situations, and getting in touch with associated difficult feelings, dilemmas and challenges.