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Jennie Nash

posted 08/08/2008, comments (2)

A story about celebrating wellness milestones

October is coming, and for me and hundreds of thousands of women who dutifully went for mammograms during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, that means that the anniversary of our diagnosis is coming up, too. Even if you're still in the throes of treatment, I think it's important to celebrate being alive. Whether you do that by saying a silent prayer... Read more Chevron

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Phyllis Johnson

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posted 06/19/2008, comments (4)

Breast Cancer and the Five Year Mark: The Limitations of Statistics

Everywhere I turn, I see news about marvelous advances in the fight against breast cancer. Nancy Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, writes on the Komen website, "We have come a long way in our fight. Twenty-five years ago, when breast cancer was diagnosed before it spread beyond the breast, the five-year survival rate was... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/05/2008, comments (11)

Survivorship: Cancer’s Next Phase

I need help.No, that’s not it. I want help.I hate to say those words. Hate to even think them. I don’t want to be considered “needy.” I never like to catch myself whining; I think complaining is a waste of time. All of that represents weakness to me, an inability to measure up to the demands of life. I don’t want to... Read more Chevron

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posted 04/07/2008, comments (0)

“Pluck” and the Best of the Health Blogosphere: This Blog Gets It

The Health Central Network is launching a new feature in its weekly newsletter: a “best of the best” health-related blog, harvested from the worldwide blogosphere. If you’ve signed up to receive the free newsletter, you’ll be regularly treated to superb writing on all kinds of health and illness topics. The first post, from... Read more Chevron

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posted 01/28/2008, comment (1)

Breast Cancer Treatment and Care: How Much is Enough?

A recent BBC News story reports on a growing controversy involving breast cancer care guidelines issued by Great Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), and disagreement over those guidelines from the British medical community. So what, you say? What does that have to do with me? Well, it’s food for... Read more Chevron

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