While I turn often to New York magazine when I need advice on where to eat or shop or what museum to visit when I’m on my way to Manhattan, I don’t often find the cover stories as compelling as the one in this week’s issue. The theme is “The Survivor Monologues: Life After Diagnosis.” The cover art itself, 143 cancer patients and... Read more
An alarming new study shows that for the first time in decades, fewer women are getting mammograms to screen for breast cancer. According to a study by the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the overall rate of women having mammograms fell four percent between 2000 and 2005. The biggest drop--6.8... Read more
Ever since my breast cancer experience in 1996, when I started spending lots of time with medical professionals, I have become fascinated by how doctors think about their profession and their patients. There is such a wide variation, I have found, in bedside manner and people skills, from compassionate to arrogant. Thus, any magazine... Read more
One of the side effects of living through breast cancer, I have found, is that your doctors often tend to regard some of the side effects of your treatment, ranging from weight gain to chemo brain, as trivial. Their attitude often may be summed up as, “you’re lucky to be alive, so stop complaining about being fat, or having a bad... Read more