Information and opinions on MyBreastCancerNetwork from Sarah http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362 en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/ http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/25741/question-kick Tue Apr 22 17:59:52 -0400 2008 Sarah HealthCentral and MyBreastCancerNetwork.com are excited to report that our new Ask a Question tool has launched! Ask a Question is a separate area where you can ask and answer fellow users' questions. You can access the new feature on any page through the purple "Ask a Question" widget and the new "Ask" drop down in the top navigation.    Here's how it works: Ask your question by typing directly into the widget. You'll be... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/25741/question-kick http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/23925/pretty Wed Apr 02 10:38:00 -0400 2008 Sarah Early yesterday morning, I got an email from one of the heads of my company (big, burly guy) saying I had to listen to this radio broadcast about breast cancer and young women.   It's the NPR interview of Jessica Queller, the author of Pretty is What Changes, a book that came out yesterday and chronicles Jessica's decision to have a prophylactic or "just in case" (or before you have breast cancer) double mastectomy, after she learned she... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/23925/pretty http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/21996/dame-smith Tue Mar 18 14:47:00 -0400 2008 Sarah Maggie Smith, the actress who plays Harry Potter's teacher at Hogwarts (Professor McGonagall, the woman with the witch's hat), is battling breast cancer.  Just announced today. http://tinyurl.com/29pvyb   http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/21996/dame-smith http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/19037/cancer-site Fri Jan 11 10:11:00 -0500 2008 Sarah Folks, just wanted to make sure you knew about some great improvements to the way MyBreastCancerNetwork.com looks and feels.  You might have noticed:   - Less clutter, better links to more relevant articles   - Clearer, easier to use navigation   - Easier to read layout and format   - Better organized index pages  - Ability to rate articles   I'd... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/19037/cancer-site http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/17013/risk-women Wed Nov 28 11:04:00 -0500 2007 Sarah  Breast cancer is in the headlines today, focusing on new changes to the popular National Cancer Institute online breast cancer risk assessment tool to better estimate risk for Black women.  The NCI calculator uses such factors as current age, age when first child was born, and family history of breast cancer to estimate the likelihood of having breast cancer in the next five years. Here's a snippet from the NYT's AP... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/17013/risk-women http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/16983/usa-talk Tue Nov 27 16:43:00 -0500 2007 Sarah    The Kimmie Cares dolls were featured today in USA Today. The dolls, which come in several ethnic categories, present a tangible, visual way for children to learn about how cancer treatment can affect a parent's appearance. Each cancer learning doll, which comes with an illustrated book, costs $39.99.  For free resources on how to discuss breast cancer with your children, check out the following: The First 48... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/16983/usa-talk http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/16006/ew-icky Wed Nov 07 10:51:00 -0500 2007 Sarah Check out this gross-out breast cancer study and its icky results -- from today's EurekAlert. File under "environmental causes of breast cancer" and "NASTY."   Extracts of catfish caught in polluted waters cause breast cancer cells to multiply (Click on the link to see the full press release) WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 7 - Exposing estrogen-sensitive breast cancer cells to extracts of channel catfish caught... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/16006/ew-icky http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/14847/taxol-breast Thu Oct 11 13:16:00 -0400 2007 Sarah A widely prescribed chemotherapy drug, Taxol (generic name: paclitaxel), has been found to be ineffective at treating HER-2 negative breast cancer, the most common form of breast cancer; HER-2 positive tumors occur in only about 20 percent of breast cancer cases.  Here's the abstract from today's New England Journal of Medicine.   Also check out the Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report:  "The... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/14847/taxol-breast http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/14544/funky-lisa Thu Oct 04 15:51:00 -0400 2007 Sarah From the Funky Winkerbean Web site: "For the first time in a comic strip, Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk has depicted the death of a young wife and mother from the recurrence of breast cancer. Lisa Moore, a major character who is battling breast cancer for a second time, succumbs to the disease on Oct. 4, 2007, leaving behind her husband, Les, and their five year-old daughter, Summer.   As a result of Batiuk's... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/14544/funky-lisa http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/13614/wsj-legal Thu Sep 13 18:44:00 -0400 2007 Sarah A front page story in today's Wall Street Journal, by reporter John Carreyrou (john.carreyrou@wsj.com), profiles an uninsured breast cancer patient named Shirley Loewe and her four-year ordeal with the U.S. health care system. Shirley, who had inflammatory breast cancer, a rare, aggressive form, was not diagnosed until she walked into a Texas emergency room with a tumor nearly four inches in diameter. It was June 2003. Shirley's tumor... http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/6362/13614/wsj-legal