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posted 11/23/2009, comments (4)

WE MUST FIGHT

In case you were asleep and not keeping up with the news, or just keeping tabs on the tabloids, The United States Preventive Services Task Force said Monday that women should start regular breast cancer screening at age 50, not 40, and that doctors should stop teaching women to examine their breasts on a regular basis. Women of America,... Read more Chevron

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posted 11/17/2009, comments (22)

New BC Screening Guidelines: Roundup (updated)

By now the news of the new breast cancer screening guidelines issued by the U.S.Preventive Services Task Force* is out and sides have been chosen. Several prominent breast cancer organizations have come out for the guidelines, while several others are outraged. So what are the recommendations exactly? From the U.S. Department of Health... Read more Chevron

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posted 11/04/2009, comment (1)

Young women and breast health -- support the EARLY Act

I am happy to see the community debating the EARLY Act on this site. Approximately 36,000 new breast cancer cases are diagnosed in US women under the age of 50 each year -- more than the total number of cervical and ovarian cancers diagnosed annually. Even still, too many young women are told not to worry about breast cancer. The EARLY Act... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/17/2009, comments (12)

MRI Today, no reading it until Monday! Arrrgh.

Whatever was int he IV made me vomit. But I did it, I actually got through the MRI without fidgetting or moving. I actually fell asleep towards the end of it. So now, I will wait to meet my surgeon, Dr. Chen and her team. They will tell me what the MRI shows, and then they will do the genetic test BRCA1/BRCA2. I guess with all that info... Read more Chevron

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posted 07/23/2009, comment (1)

Help When You Need it

Sometimes things happen in your life that you can't explain, like me getting breast cancer at 32...then with four words, "you have breast cancer", watching it all fall apart. Nearly three years ago, I was in your shoes. I too, got that call that changed my life and turned my life upside down. "what the heck?" I thought. "Why is... Read more Chevron

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