Ready for some light reading? Looking for conversational icebreakers for the waiting room? Want to be ready when your colleagues, who think you now know EVERYTHING about breast cancer, ask you a question? Take a look at these 25 fast facts. But don’t worry—there’s no quiz afterwards. You’ve already passed the cancer... Read more
One year ago, when President-elect Barack Obama spoke to supporters in Nashua, New Hampshire after losing that state’s first-in-the-nation Democratic primary to Sen. Hillary Clinton, little did I realize that the stirring speech I heard on that cold New Hampshire night would go down in history. That its closing words would become a national... Read more
Readers, please see Maimah Karmo’s post on the proposed shutdown of New York’s Adelphi Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program. Then come back here for my open letter to New York Governor David Paterson.
Dear Governor Paterson:Hey, I know it’s tough being Governor right now. Especially Governor of New York.... Read more
I’m a breast cancer survivor. Have been, for 7 years now. I walked out of the hospital after my final radiation treatment on Feb. 14, 2002, and my cancer hasn’t reappeared. No telling if it will; in general terms, a woman with my diagnosis isn’t considered “cured” till she’s been cancer-free for 20 years. But if... Read more
Seven years ago, after I learned the lumpectomy I’d gone through hadn’t gotten rid the cancer in my right breast, I was told a mastectomy was necessary. At the same time, my surgeon, Kim Grafton, recommended I speak with the plastic surgery team at our cancer center about a TRAM flap breast reconstruction.
With totally inappropriate... Read more
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