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Did you know that dogs can get breast cancer?
My dear friend Julia Szabo, who has the pet column in the New York Post, covers the sad fact that yes, dogs can get breast cancer,too.
In her video, Dr. Andrew Kaplan, of City Veterinary Care, will tell you the facts.
There's good news in her to...
As a dog lover and survivor, I really enjoyed that video. Thanks for all that you do. You look great!! Your book Cancer Vixen was on the Genentech Intranet in October 2008 after I spoke to their Legal Dept. about my own breast cancer experience and the book I wrote as a result, Mourning Has Broken.
Jan, that's incredible. I loved the video, too. Thanks for sharing! Please tell us more.
Best,
Sarah
Like Marisa, I was 43 when I was first diagnosed with breast cancer. At the time I was working at Genentech in South San Francisco as a patent attorney, managing six attorneys and a paralegal. Also like Marisa, I was diagnosed with stage I cancer, 1.3 cm tumor and treated with CMF, lumpectomy and radiation. I developed lymphedema a year later and had a recurrence of breast cancer in 2003, still stage I. This time I had more aggressive chemo and a bilateral mastectomy. I took Genentech's drug Herceptin and then wrote a book, Mourning Has Broken: Reflections on Surviving Cancer (2008) about my story. Last September I gave a talk to my colleagues at Genentech about my cancer experience and book. At the talk I mentioned Marisa's Cancer Vixen since I had just completed it. I especially liked her joke about St. Tropez, St. Bart, and St. Vincent's. In October Genentech interviewed me for their intranet, mentioning my book as well as Marisa's. I feel we are all sisters on this journey together. Best, Jan
JAN MY SISTAH!
So glad to hear you're doing swell.
Congrats on your book.
I gave a talk with someone from Genentech in Rome. Me again. Strange how life creates these circles!
Deets:
Nov. 8th - 10:30 am
International Meeting at the Campidoglio, Professor Veronesi chairman, outstanding scientific speakers from Italy and Professor Napoleone Ferrara from Genentech San Francisco as international guest. We kindly ask you to sinthesize in a cartoon the meaning of the National Cancer Day or simply your own personal vision as cancer survivor. You can choose to draw it "live" during the meeting or even before and take the cartoon with you to Italy. We would like to show it to the audience and you will be asked to give a brief speech (5 minutes) to introduce your cartoon or to tell your personal story.
Me again. Strange how life creates these circles!
XO
Marisa
Marisa, yes, my SISTAH! I do know Napoleone very well (he's from Silicy) and his incredible work on a cancer growth factor VEGF. Brava that you could speak with him in Rome. I bet that was fun. It is amazing how life creates these global circles. Kudos on your advocacy. I'm a lymphedema advocate (a river lymph) and love it! Stay well. XXO, Jan
it was an interesting panel.
stay well my sistah, stay well.
pink on earth,
marisa