Breast Cancer Expert Cancer Vixen shares Breast Cancer management news and commentary at MyBreastCancerNetwork.com. The HealthCentral Network, Inc. (www.HealthCentral.com) is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659 http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659 http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/96007/fight Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:27:00 -0500 Cancer Vixen In case you were asleep and not keeping up with the news, or just keeping tabs on the tabloids, The United States Preventive Services Task Force said Monday that women should start regular breast cancer screening at age 50, not 40, and that doctors should stop teaching women to examine their breasts on a regular basis.   Women of America, we must fight!   As a breast cancer survivor, and a cartoonista/activista (yes I am) who wrote... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/96007/fight http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/88815/blogging Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:26:00 -0400 Cancer Vixen September 29th 2009 I'm here at jfK, with some Delta pilots.   A benefit for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, where the Foundation Babes, including The Patron Saint of Breast Cancer Evelyn Lauder fly to Washington DC with Melissa Etheridge and her fans!   Everyone here works for Delta, and most of them are survivors, including JR, who is second from the right. He is the only male breast cancer survivor at... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/88815/blogging http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/66130/twitter Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:40:00 -0400 Cancer Vixen So, I signed up for Twitter and was totally cool about talking to anyone and everyone... until, lo and behold, I noticed that BREASTCANCER IS FOLLOWING ME??? WTF???   I was like, maybe I should be doing Facebook, which I blew off!!?   Then I was talking to my beloved groovy perfect-score-on-her-SATs genius producer Sarah Park, who laughed and said it was her. She is the helper/moderator for @BreastCancer on Twitter and is... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/66130/twitter http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/65309/emmy Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:08:00 -0400 Cancer Vixen Last night, WABC TV in New York won an Emmy for "Breast Cancer: New Thinking & New Therapies," which aired in October 2007. Jeelu Billimoria, Senior Producer, Emmy Winner, was kind enough to let me share the video with you (Check back soon for the video/link!!!).   THANK YOU JEELU!!! (I'm in the video, before I lost 20 lbs - weight gain is a BACKSIDE effect of TAMOXIFIEND!)   Btw, if you Vixens would like diet tips,... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/65309/emmy http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/63504/cancervixen Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:18:00 -0400 Cancer Vixen My amazing MyBreastCancerNetwork.com producer, Sarah, told me I have to get with the program and get on Twitter.   On Twitter, I met the daughter of a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient (Hi, Laura/@GoldyMom)!!!   Here are my first two tweets (from last night) discussing the Housewives of New York and a special meal cooked at the American Cancer Society's Hope Lodge.       Come find ME on Twitter. I'm... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/63504/cancervixen http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/61821/soy-anara Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:07:00 -0500 Cancer Vixen Over the weekend, a woman at the young survivors conference (the 9th Annual Conference for Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer) asked an oncologist from Dana Farber about soy. His response was that you'd have to eat "a ton" of it for the soy to have an effect on your cancer. Gee, thanks for the awesomely unspecific answer, doc! Here's my own personal SOY story: When I was diagnosed with b.c., I went to a highly regarded much... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/61821/soy-anara http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/60277/apples Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:34:00 -0500 Cancer Vixen Hello Darling Vixens! It's time for a tasty update. According to Rui Hai Liu, a Cornell researcher who published SIX STUDIES on breast cancer and diet in the past year, an apple a day can keep the breast doctor away!   http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/139365.php* Now, isn't that a DELICIOUS fact?   And apples are everywhere, you don't have to climb Mount FUJI to find them. (Although the cardio would be good for your... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/60277/apples http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/59822/breast-write Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:25:00 -0500 Cancer Vixen A lot of books have been written about personal experiences with breast cancer, and I say: keep 'em coming! The healing power of words cannot be underestimated. Mary Ann Guiliano, my nurse at St. Vincent's calls it "objective journaling." I didn't know it was even a term when I was writing as I went through breast cancer, but it really helped me take the experience off myself (or get it off my chest) and onto the page! Better on the page... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/59822/breast-write http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/51098/cancer-bitch Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:46:00 -0500 Cancer Vixen 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 too, getting her dog Lupa, (a pit bull she adopted from the ASPCA) tested prompts Julia to get a mammogram for the first time. (Look for Yours... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/51098/cancer-bitch http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/46614/interviewed Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:47:00 -0400 Cancer Vixen   On October 1, the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I talked to the co-creator of the Pink Ribbon, the Founder of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, The Patron Saint of Breast Cancer herself, Evelyn Lauder.Evelyn Lauder: You're the first blogger I interviewed with.Marisa Acocella Marchetto: Really? Well, I hope it's good for you! Here we go. Evelyn, what made you start the BCRF?EL: I was looking for an existing charity to... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/26659/46614/interviewed