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posted 07/03/2008, comments (2)

Dance then wherever you may be...

Hi all, hope you are well. I just returned from eight straight days of managing an annual meeting with three or four separate events daily and four or five hours sleep nightly. It's a ton of work, but well worth it to see everyone enjoying themselves and getting a lot of actual work done as an organization. I have to admit... Read more Chevron

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Fran Visco

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posted 07/02/2008, comments (2)

Will Your Plastic Water Bottle Give You Breast Cancer?

Many myths surround breast cancer, as well as other claims that may have something to them. In the latter category is the claim that plastic water bottles cause breast cancer. We have some clues from experiments on animals in laboratory studies on rodents, and certain chemicals found in some plastics; but we do not know if these... Read more Chevron

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Laurie Kingston

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posted 06/30/2008, comments (6)

Living with Metastasis: The Emotional Toll of Breast Cancer (Stage 4) as a Chronic Illness

I have Stage 4 breast cancer. However, I am also in clinical remission, with no sign of cancer in my liver (which was once riddled with tumours). What does this mean? We can assume that there are still cancer cells in my body and that, eventually, we will find new tumors. Until that time, I undergo chemotherapy and... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/29/2008, comments (3)

Is Cancer In Your Future? Would You Want To Know?

If a simple test could tell you, at age 18, whether you were at high risk of developing breast cancer at some point during your lifetime, would you take the test? If you took the test, and the results said yes, you’re at increased risk—what would you do? Change your lifestyle? Your eating habits? Have a double mastectomy?How... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/27/2008, comments (2)

Moving at Survivor Pace

As much as I don’t really mind having had breast cancer, sometimes the long-lasting effects of that harrowing journey make me angry. I mean, I just plain get sick of them. For instance, aching shoulders from a mastectomy and reconstruction followed by NO physical therapy. I guess the doctors didn’t realize, six years ago, that lopping... Read more Chevron

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