Thursday Girls
Advanced Breast Cancer Therapy & Support Groups for Melbourne and Regional Victoria.
Free, weekly, professionally led therapeutic support groups for those individuals living with advanced breast cancer throughout Victoria. All ages are welcome. Face to face in Box Hill and online sessions on Zoom.
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Run Melbourne 2025 - 13 July
Join our 2025 Run Melbourne team. Last year, we had a great day walking and running together and raised more than $8,000, which directly supported our members in receiving free, weekly counselling services. Join an existing team or start your own and help us reach our goal of $10,000 this year!
Our costs have increased significantly since last year, and we really need your help.
“… the group is about connecting and supporting each other. I feel that the main purpose for the group is to get women together that UNDERSTAND each other and what each individual is going through. There are only a selective amount of people who fully understand.”
— M, Thursday Girl
2024 Events
Thursday Girls
Annual Fundraiser Dinner
A big thank you to everyone who joined us for our annual fundraiser dinner in October.
As always, it was a big night of support, stories, some lovely entertainment, and wonderful company.
With your help, we raised $29,262.
Run for Melbourne
A wonderful effort from everyone who participated in and supported Run for Melbourne.
Thursday Girls successfully raised $8,539 this year!
Runners are already planning for next year's event!
Won’t you join us?
Tuxedo Junction
Bunnings Sausage Sizzle
We enjoyed a sunny day outside Bunnings and raised $1,600.
Thanks everyone who stopped by and enjoyed a sausage and a cold drink!
Sue Graham, prior to passing away in 2020, wrote a book for her grandchildren about her cancer. Sue's son Christopher is rewriting the book in different versions, with an illustrator, and will make it available to the cancer community. This is wonderful and exciting news. It is also a fitting tribute to Sue's creativity and vibrancy.
In the meantime, thank you so much to Lloyd and Christopher for consenting to sharing the book in its current form on our website.
Please click on the following link to read this children's book
Thursday Girls
Thursday Girls comprises a warm, supportive and inclusive community of women who are living with advanced breast cancer, and 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 two weekly therapeutic support groups for women, and a similar twice-monthly group for their partners.
The groups have three main functions: to share information, create meaningful relationships with people in similar situations and get in touch with difficult feelings and thoughts, dilemmas and challenges.
One group meets face to face in Box Hill, a suburb in Melbourne’s east. This is a hybrid group, with a Zoom option for women who may be unwell or away.
There is also a group that is only on Zoom. This enables women who live in other parts of Victoria to join remotely.
Metastatic Breast Cancer
Around 3000 women die each year from metastatic breast cancer in Australia.
That’s 1 in 34 women.
Living with
Advanced Breast Cancer
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“In Memorial” Tribute Page for Your Loved One
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About Us
Learn about our Support Group the Thursday Girls and the work we do to support women with advanced Breast Cancer
Our Stories
Read some of the stories of our members and their experiences.
Resources
Find resources including sites that provide more information, tools and links to other support groups
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nations as the Traditional Owners of the unceded lands on which I live and work. We recognise their care of and connection to land, water and community over the past 60,000+ years. We pay respect to their long and proud tradition of story-telling, and to their Elders, who always have, and always will, care for Country, culture and community, today and for future generations.