Increasing numbers of women are having mastectomies these days. Whether it’s women with large and/or scattered tumors, women who want to slash their risk of recurrence in the same breast, or women who have both breasts removed when one is cancerous, mastectomies are on the rise. In addition, about one-third of women with mutant BRCA genes... Read more
Fellow blogger Laurie Kingston recently posted a tribute to Andrea Collins Smith—a.k.a. Punk Rock Mommy—that I read with a great deal of trepidation. I find reading about young mothers who die of breast cancer akin to looking into the noonday sun: I can force my face upwards, but inevitably cover my eyes, unable to bear the harsh... Read more
No Evidence Breast Self-Exams Cut Cancer Deaths
Thus read the headline in yesterday’s Washington Post. Yet another study, this one by the Nordic Cochrane Center (an independent research and information center in Denmark) confirms a 2003 study of breast self-exams and their relation to breast cancer deaths.
Bottom line:... Read more
What’s it like to walk in a cancer fund-raiser? Let me show you.
It’s 6 a.m. on a gray July morning, the sun trying to break through the river-bottom fog at the local middle school. Some of the 3,000+ cyclists, set to ride anywhere from 25 to 100 miles, are hitting the road early. These are the hard-core... Read more
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