Breast Cancer Research When Dr. Susan Love, author of The Breast Book, writes about recent research she’s learned, breast cancer bloggers take notice. Dr. Love’s recent report on research at the American Association of Cancer Research 2014 is one example. In her post she notes that research is moving toward finding ways to add to the...
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Prostate Cancer Impacts 1 in 6 Men in the US According to Kevin Loughlin, Urologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, “If prostate cancer survivors were a city, it would be the 4th largest in the US.” Alarming as this statement is, the lifetime risk of dying from prostate cancer is only 3%. That means that most men who are diagnosed with...
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Please Don’t Say This Facing mastectomy many breast cancer patients still hear something like this: “well at least you get a free boob job out of this.” Let’s straighten this out right now. Breast reconstruction following breast cancer surgery is not a boob job. A boob job, commonly done to augment or at times reduce the size of breasts, is a...
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“Keep Calm And Carry On:” Really? “The shock of that day you hear the words, ‘you have cancer’ never leaves you and your sense of certainty in life and in your body can be hard to recapture after a diagnosis of cancer.”-Marie Ennis-O’Connor After Surgery, Chemo, Radiation This is the time when feeling sick is supposed to be over. ...
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Blood Needs and Chemotherapy The Red Cross provides a wealth of information about donating blood. Often when in chemotherapy, people with cancer need blood or plasma. So when friends ask what they can do to help, one suggestion is to give blood. The need is great. According to the Red Cross Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. More than...
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