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posted 06/23/2008, comments (2)

Chemotherapy in the Long Run: Treatment for BC Mets

Before I first started chemotherapy, in 2006, I attended an orientation session, in which, among other things, we were told that if we threw up on our clothes after treatment, we were to bring them in to the cancer centre to be incinerated. Chemotherapy is toxic, scary stuff. Now, as I wrote earlier in the week, not... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/16/2008, comments (4)

Dealing with Breast Cancer Recurrence: Chemotherapy the Second Time Around

I first went through chemotherapy from March to June of 2006. I did just six rounds, and it was about the hardest thing I have ever had to endure. I remember saying at the time, “I have to get through this and it has to work because I am never doing this again.” Well, I did end up having to do it again, just six... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/09/2008, comments (0)

Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer: Talking to My Kids, Part 1

Two things I have learned as a parent with cancer: Keeping the lines of communication open, in a way that is appropriate for the age and personality of your child, is extremely important Kids are extremely resilient. When it comes to talking to kids about cancer, I do not believe that there is a ‘one size... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/06/2008, comments (0)

Metastasis: The First Few Weeks After a Diagnosis of Metastatic Breast Cancer

It’s what every woman who has ever been diagnosed with breast cancer fears the most. I learned that I had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in November of 2006. I will never forget how my knees buckled as the nurse called me in for my appointment. I was in too much pain not to know what I was about to hear. And I... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/04/2008, comments (7)

Living with Metastasis

“Metastasis.” I think of myself as someone with a pretty good vocabulary, yet before I was diagnosed with breast cancer, it was a word I had never heard. Breast cancer has become metastatic when the cancer has spread (in the case of breast cancer, this is usually, but not always, the bones, lungs, liver or brain).... Read more Chevron

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