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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2025 EVENTS
Wags for Support
Woofers Dog Lounge
12 Nellbern Rd, Moorabbin
We raised over $2,700 thanks to our generous doggy community and supporters.
Thanks to everyone who donated, supported, attended and promoted this event.
Special shout out to the team at Woofers Dog Lounge and Melbourne Dog Trainers for hosting us free of charge and providing their amazing staff on the day.
Other major supporters were Oakleigh Central Vet, KONG, Willow’s Pantry, Frontier Pet Foods Lincraft, La Doggie Vita and The Paw Grocer.
Run (or Walk) Melbourne
Sunday, 13 July
Melbourne
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
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 separate weekly therapeutic support groups for those with a Metastatic diagnosis, 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 or those too unwell to travel in person 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
Create a page in tribute to a loved one, so friends and family can honour their memory with a gift to Thursday Girls
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
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Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nations as the Traditional Owners of the unceded on which we 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.