Chemo-BrainFinally, some scientific proof about a condition that many women experience after breast cancer treatment, and note to each other, even though many doctors deny or minimize the significance of this complaint. Chemo-brain is that fuzzy feeling that leaves you confused and forgetful. It's an inability to concentrate and focus on... Read more
It’s that time of year, again.
I’m hosting Thanksgiving at my house, and I’m trying, amid the frenzy of getting the house spiffed up, and the recipes collected, and the shopping lists made, and the errands checked of my list, to slow down long enough to remember what the holiday really stands for. I mean what it stands for, over and above... Read more
Several years ago, I wrote an article for U.S. News and World Report about the large and well-known Harvard study of nurses that is often in the news for its findings about women’s health. So I take a special interest when the study is in the news, as it is again today for its’ latest finding: that the risk of breast cancer, especially the... Read more
A provocative essay in the New York Times by journalist Aliyah Baruchin has me thinking over, once again, a question that I occasionally grapple with: If there’s no family history, but you get breast cancer, especially at an early age--43 for Baruchin, 41 for me--should you be tested for the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation? The question is... Read more
I often go out of my way to avoid movies and tv shows that portray women struggling with breast cancer, but I was taken in by some of the hype surrounding the Lifetime movie “Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, ” which aired last Monday night, and will be on again on Saturday night Oct. 28th.
From what I read, the story was compelling: the... Read more
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