When you go to the hospital or cancer center for treatment, do you ever get the sinking feeling that the folks there aren't... quite... sure exactly who you are?
When you went for surgery, did the prep nurse mistakenly ask you to reach down and sign your healthy left breast, instead of the right one, where the tumor was? During chemo, did you hope like crazy the chemo nurse wasn't overworked and stressed enough to pick up the wrong bag of chemicals and pump 'em into your arm?
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Personalized medicine actually has two meanings. The first, and probably the one most familiar to us in San Francisco, is the trend to have... Read more »
My name is Doug Haberstroh, and this is the story of my wife Keri. Shortly after we were married, Keri was diagnosed with breast cancer.... Read more »
Cancer Vixen (a.k.a. Marisa Acocella Marchetto), a fellow blogger here on MyBreastCancerNetwork.com recently wrote a post that left some of... Read more »
It’s long been known that the denser a woman’s breast, the more difficult it is for a standard mammogram to pick up a tumor. On a... Read more »
Do you have dense breasts? Only your radiologist knows for sure. And that could be an increasingly important piece of information, as... Read more »
If you’ve just learned that you have breast cancer, you may be encountering some of the most anxious moments of your life. Although research has... Read more »
My technician recently told me, just before sending me gliding through an MRI tube, that MRI scans were once an uncommon breast exam. He performed... Read more »
Background Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a relatively rare type of breast cancer grows in the lymph vessels of the skin of the breast. Because... Read more »
Q. I had breast cancer in the past, and I’m really scared of it coming back. What can you tell me about recurrent breast cancer?A. Recur... Read more »
Q. I’ve been diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer. What can you tell me about it, and what my treatment might be like?A. Inflammatory breast... Read more »
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