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Breast Cancer in Women Over 70: Treatment Decisions

While you’re much more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer as an older woman than you are when you’re under 60, treatment advice often focuses on middle-aged or younger women. Older women undergoing surgery, and making choices about radiation and chemotherapy, have different challenges – first in learning all they can abut... Read moreChevron
posted 06/22/2011, comments (0)|
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Know Thy Treatment!

I just had an "interesting" experience that I hope you all can learn from.  On Friday, I went in for a Faslodex injection.  After waiting around, getting the shot and coming home (after a little shopping and having lunch), I got a telephone call from the treatment nurse saying she had accidently only given me half the dose my oncologist... Read moreChevron
posted 10/25/2010, comment (1)|
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Guide to Treatment: Surgery, Chemo, Radiation, and Recurrence Prevention Drugs

Breast cancer isn’t so bad – it’s the treatment that’s tough!Many of us have had that thought as we’ve made our way through breast cancer treatment. Surgery, radiation, chemo, and long-term drugs all have their own challenges.   If you’ve chosen to treat your breast cancer, you can’t avoid the rough... Read moreChevron
posted 10/14/2010, comments (0)|
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Exercising during Breast Cancer Treatment

Cancer feels like walking down a long, dark path, doesn’t it? You can’t see where you’re going. You don’t know where the path leads. Like any dark place, it’s scary.And you just want to sit down, pull a blanket over your head, and make it all stop.Uh-uh; not an option.The worst thing you can do during cancer treatment... Read moreChevron
posted 04/12/2010, comments (13)|
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New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

As you’re probably well aware, the U.S. Preventive Task Force released new breast cancer screening guidelines last November. And the ensuing furor highlighted a huge issue, one that will only become more and more prominent as America’s health-care delivery system makes its way down the rocky path to reality.Evidence-based medicine.... Read moreChevron
posted 02/02/2010, comments (2)|
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