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Enjoy your Coffee and Fight Breast Cancer
I started drinking coffee because of breast cancer. After treatment I knew my brain wasn’t functioning quite as acutely as before the diagnosis, so coffee gave me the added ability to focus. I later learned that coffee was helping to address the effects of chemo brain. Now there are other reasons for breast cancer survivors to drink coffee. A study out of Sweden this month finds that women who are on the drug Tamoxifen and drink at least two cups of coffee a day have a reduced risk of recurrence of the disease.
This was a pretty extensive study of 600 women over a 5 year period. CBS reported this wethat researchers found...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - May 2, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
others ' eloquent voices
I was actually doing much better between when I blogged last time and when I went in for CyberKnife radiation last Thursday. I was walking and eating (and had even been out for dinner once and gone to book club). I was still needing to rest a lot but I could see the improvement in every day. And that was heartening. CyberKnife was a major setback. I remember that it was last time, too (so much so that I never really wrote about it - just wanted to move on). That ' s just how it goes for me, I guess. I had brain swelling, headache, nausea, loss of balance, fatigue (yet little sleep) and a very odd taste in my mouth.I s...
Source: Not just about cancer - June 8, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: activism brain metastasis breast cancer cancer blog chronic illness community cyber knife good stuff metastatic radiation show and tell surgery writing Source Type: blogs
others' eloquent voices
I was actually doing much better between when I blogged last time and when I went in for CyberKnife radiation last Thursday. I was walking and eating (and had even been out for dinner once and gone to book club). I was still needing to rest a lot but I could see the improvement in every day. And that was heartening.CyberKnife was a major setback. I remember that it was last time, too (so much so that I never really wrote about it - just wanted to move on). That's just how it goes for me, I guess. I had brain swelling, headache, nausea, loss of balance, fatigue (yet little sleep) and a very odd taste in my mouth.I still do....
Source: Not just about cancer - June 8, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: activism brain metastasis breast cancer cancer blog chronic illness community cyber knife good stuff metastatic radiation show and tell surgery writing Source Type: blogs
That other emotion with cancer
Survivor guilt often hits cancer patients later one. We are diagnosed and are hit with the why me mentality. Then as we come to accept and adapt to our cancer diagnosis, we tend to meet others who are also dealing with their cancer diagnosis. Then sometimes they are not so lucky and don't make it. Then we are faced with survivor guilt.I can sympathize with this. I had thyroid cancer in 1981.When I returned to school shortly after that I lived in a dorm on a coed floor. That year the school had a mural painting contest on each floor. On the other side of the floor was an artistic student, in fact his father was an art profe...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 18, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: survivorship guilt death cancer bonds Source Type: blogs
A Connection Between the Zika Virus and Curing Brain Cancer?
Not long ago, Zika virus was dominating headlines. A new infection was hardly ever heard about before then, yet is now affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Latin America, causing disfiguration and microcephalia in new-born babies. Microcephalia is caused by severe delayed and abnormal development of the brain, resulting in the range of intellectual disability, dwarfism, poor motor functions and speech. With no cure or even preventive vaccination available, many women in the most affected regions were reportedly considering postponing any planned pregnancies.
The virus was actually discovered back in 1947 in Zika fo...
Source: World of Psychology - October 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Brain and Behavior Brain Blogger Health-related Publishers Research brain cancer Delivery glioblastoma Immune System microcephalia Pregnancy Sexual Contact stem cells Zika virus Source Type: blogs
national metastatic breast cancer awareness day: my statement
Here is the statement I made at today's press conference (see below for details). Thanks so much to Dr. Hedy Fry for introducing the Private Members' Bill and especially to the Canadian Breast Cancer Network for being a tireless advocate for women living with metastasis."Cate Edwards, daughter of the late Elizabeth Edwards has said, 'Before my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, I assumed breast cancer patients fell into two categories: survivors and those who lost the battle.' Before my own diagnosis, I would have said the same thing.I learned I had breast cancer in 2006, when I was 38 years old, with two little ki...
Source: Not just about cancer - May 1, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: brain metastasis breast cancer cancer blog community good stuff identity news show and tell Source Type: blogs
How do you envision your cancer?
When I was in chemo, I would think of the chemo drugs as Pac Man icons going along eating up all the bad cancer cooties in my system. The cancer itself was some dark looming elephant in the room. Well not an elephant but a big looming grim reaper with the scythe running all over from the good guys.I always thought that on a slide in the lab, they would be big and black. Always ugly, never pretty. Never able to become pretty.It looks like I was wrong."A University of British Columbia professor designed and created 10 dresses inspired by microscopic lab photos of cancer cells and other body systems for a project called "Fash...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 20, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: art cancer cells image Source Type: blogs
After Cancer Coping With The Instant Cancer Bond
So after you get diagnosed with cancer, it seems like everyone you know has cancer because:You have met a lot of other people going through cancer treatment while hanging out at chemo, in support groups, your oncologist ' s waiting room, etc. That part is kind of nice. You find out you aren ' t alone in this cancer business. You have an instant bond with new friends.Then you start hearing about all these other people who are diagnosed with cancer. You feel like you are supposed to be their friend too - because of that cancer bond thing again. Your cancer friends tell you about everyone they know when they are diagnosed wit...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 8, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer bonds cancer diagnosis coping friends guilt Source Type: blogs
Thyroid cancer facts
The Huffington Post brings us Thyroid Cancer: The Five Things You Really Need to Know. One little factoid jumps out: UP 274 percent since 1997. That would make it the fastest growing cancer in the country. But it affects a relatively insignificant number of people - around 60,000 this year - so it doesn't get a lot of attention.Number one to know is it is not the good cancer. There is no good cancer. The term is derogatory and misleading.Number two is that taking a pill every day is not that easy. You need to replace the vital thyroid hormone but if they give you too much you will be hyper and if they give you too li...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - June 2, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer information normal thyroid cancer scars Source Type: blogs
Optimism in the face of cancer
When one is diagnosed with cancer, all sorts of things flash in our brains - rail thin bald people, iv poles, scars, doctors, hospitals, hospices. All sorts of things loom in our future - medical tests, things that pinch, chemotherapy, and ugly hospital gowns with a draft in the back.One of the key players in any cancer journey is the oncologist. Oncologists provide hope, direction, leadership and optimism. They offer treatment protocols to heal us, they provide solutions to treatment side effects, they provide answers to our questions.They do offer optimism as I said. I read this article on an oncologist and his views of ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 16, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer diagnosis cancer treatment optimism oncologist Source Type: blogs
Cancer and the common cold, take 852
I have been known to whine blog about the lack of cure for both the common cold and cancer. I first actually blogged about this in March 2008 (http://carolinemfr.blogspot.com/2008/03/cancer-vs-common-cold.html) if you have been reading along. I mean they both basically suck and neither has a cure.The common cold is just going to make you miserable for a short while; cancer will make you miserable for a longer period and is more likely to put you in your grave.But now some rocket scientist medical researchers said "What if we start treating cancer like the common cold?". To my chemo and fibro fogged brain, this sounds...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 8, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer cure cancer research cancer treatment medical research Source Type: blogs
I really hate it when they change their minds in breast cancer treatment
You know the story. You go through some oh-so-not-fun medical treatment and then you find out afterwards that maybe you didn't really need it. Well they did it again. The announcement was made at the Breast Cancer Symposium in San Antonio yesterday where the focus on less is more. In some ways I am for it.I am against over treatment. I have experienced some of what could be over-treatment for some women with breast cancer and am just as happy to never repeat it. Some of the recommendations are:If a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer which has already spread, is surgery to remove the original tumor really necessary? If a...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 12, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: breast cancer treatment cancer research over treatment Source Type: blogs
Battling Cancer – and Losing My Mind
I have been trying to complete a blog for the past few weeks. My mind won’t focus, I am easily distracted and I have difficulty finding the words I want to use.
The only thing I can attribute this to is chemo brain. In addition to the surreal aspect of being diagnosed and treated for advanced cancer, the impact of the treatment on my cognitive process makes me feel like I am dealing with a disability.
The American Cancer Society quotes doctors as saying chemo brain is “mild cognitive impairment.” But the thought of returning to work as a registered nurse with this debilitating brain condition concerns me more than th...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - April 16, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer chemo brain chemo therapy metastatic breast cancer Source Type: blogs
A new understanding of cancer
I read both these articles recently and sort of jumbled them around in my brain and thought about them. They make a lot of sense. There is current medical research which is focusing on a new cancer classification system based on their genetic make up and not on which part of the body they are found.Think about it. We may call it a head cold or the stomach flu, right? But we know they are different and treat them differently. With cancer, its the same thing. Breast cancer and stomach cancer get different treatments - but they are chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation - which are fairly similar. And then doctors wonder why so...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - August 11, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: breast cancer treatment cancer research progress Source Type: blogs
Life After Breast Cancer Does Suck
Here ' s the truth. "The Secret Suckiness to Life After Breast Cancer" . Go read it. Judith Basya writes the truth. There is no new normal. Cancer lurks for ever. And life on some levels, really does suck after breast cancer. And they never told us about it and we don ' t get to talk about it.Judith raises some good points including this one which resonates with me most:" And why is my situation only to be discussed in therapy, while other people ’s job woes are acceptable dinner-table fodder? "Yes, really? Why don ' t we talk about post breast cancer suckiness in therapy and not at the dinner table? Our family members a...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 2, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer bonds coping friends questions secrets Source Type: blogs
