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3 Traits That Can Help You Beat Breast Cancer
I often contemplate the traits that help people overcome adversity. I especially love to talk to people who have beat breast cancer and tell their stories like triumphant warriors. For a while I attributed their power to optimism, now I know better. Years before I was diagnosed with breast cancer, my cousin told me that she couldn’t get cancer because she is an upbeat and optimistic person. I am sure she thought I was lacking in her optimistic spirit when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. She may have overlooked the fact that although we come from the same genetic line that tested positive for the BRCA 2 genetic mutati...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - August 19, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer beat breast cancer breast cancer survivor breast cancer tips survive breast cancer Source Type: blogs

For Cancer Patients, It's Not Just About What's Now But Also What's Next--And We Can Help Answer That Question
Here's an insightful comment from me: Social media has gripped our world, the way we live, the way we interact, what we know and influences what we do. (OK, stop laughing: I'm not a Luddite, but needed somewhere to start this conversation.) At times, I wonder where all those folks (usually young folks) find all that interesting stuff they send to each other on a such a constant basis that it seems their smartphones are a direct extension of their fingertips. So much to say right now! I can't imagine there being that much that is so important that people walk down the street mesmerized by those things. But maybe that is jus...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - March 6, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Medications Research Survivors Treatment Source Type: blogs

The human cost of breast cancer screening
This article originally appeared in Forbes. Image credit: Shutterstock.com Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 18, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs

Poor Quality Sleep: A Silent Source of Disability in Breast Cancer
The post below ran on Huffington Post Healthy Living on May 13. It is authored by Hrayr Attarian, MD, FACCP, FAASM, Member of the Society for Women’s Health Rearch Network on Sleep and Associate Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University, Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Research Lab for the Society for Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Network on Sleep. Poor quality sleep is a major contributor to reduced quality of life and can have a negative impact on mood and energy, cognition, metabolic and immunological function, as well as lead to weight gain [3]. Sleep-related complaints are quite common in women with b...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs

Starting a New Years Journey
Instead of a resolution for the New Year, I have decided to start a new journey. I am thinking of it as a wellness journey. The point of this journey in 2013 is to lead me to a more balanced and satisfying life. The ultimate goal is to reach a place where I live my life fulfilling my needs. I tend to only sporadically focus on my needs while trying to fulfill all that is required of me as a mother, wife and daughter. That doesn’t include a demanding work schedule and other life challenges that frequently come my way. If I can reach a destination that provides for me, then I will surely do better at providing for others. ...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - January 3, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: depression breast cancer New Year Source Type: blogs

Breast Cancer Retrospective
Before my breast cancer diagnosis, I was aware of breast cancer around me. A co-worker ' s mother, another co-worker ' s wife, my parent ' s neighbor, and more. But it never really touched me because no one I knew personally was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a disease of older women. I also felt because I had previously had cancer that sometimes people expected me to be more sympathetic to other ' s cancer diagnoses. I did feel some guilt because of this.I never expected to be diagnosed with another cancer. I felt I already had my share of cancer with thyroid cancer. I didn ' t ' deserve ' any more. Because I had a ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - August 18, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: acceptance anger breast cancer denial depression grief Source Type: blogs

Blogging About Breast Cancer – A New Therapy?
It has been a tough year with my mom passing away in June and recently another member of the family has had serious health problems. It has helped me a lot to share thoughts and feelings with friends and family through social media while I was dealing with the loss of my mom and now this recent development. The more people I talk to about tweeting and face book, the more I realize how supportive social media can be. Blogging about breast cancer can be therapy.  I benefitted all these years from blogging about my experience with breast cancer. I definitely find that sharing openly on the web helps keeps me sane about my th...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - August 27, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer blogging breast cancer therapy social media Source Type: blogs

Be Honest, Be Grateful: 5 Tips for Staying Positive When Cancer Comes Calling
A cancer diagnosis often wells up emotions of fear, anger and depression. These are completely normal.  I felt mostly anger after finding out that breast cancer had come back after almost ten years cancer free. I am determined however to battle cancer with the best attitude I can. For me this is part of being triumphant. I used some of the time in the hospital to develop principles that would help me have the best attitude and make the most of this new breast cancer diagnosis. These are my principals and so far they have been successful. I have been able to sustain a pretty good attitude – I’m winning! 1)      Be...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - February 18, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Best Attitude Cancer Diagnosis Source Type: blogs

Emotional Distress: It’s Inevitable When You Have Metastatic Breast Cancer
This has been a tough couple of months. I’m finding it a challenge to figure out how to have purpose and direction while living with an incurable disease. In fact, the biggest problem has been how to plan for the rest of my life when there might not be a “rest of my life.” For the most part, the cancer is under control. I have been fortunate to be asymptomatic, with only a few bouts of intolerable pain to deal with. The source of that pain was recently discovered on a CT scan, when the report showed that a fractured rib was healing. Until the doctor read that to me, I had no idea that I had fractured a rib. So be...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - June 29, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs

Emotional Distress: It ’s Inevitable When You Have Metastatic Breast Cancer
This has been a tough couple of months. I’m finding it a challenge to figure out how to have purpose and direction while living with an incurable disease. In fact, the biggest problem has been how to plan for the rest of my life when there might not be a “rest of my life.” For the most part, the cancer is under control. I have been fortunate to be asymptomatic, with only a few bouts of intolerable pain to deal with. The source of that pain was recently discovered on a CT scan, when the report showed that a fractured rib was healing. Until the doctor read that to me, I had no idea that I had fractured a rib. So be...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - June 29, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs

Why I Don ' t Blog About Breast Cancer As Much Any More
I have been pondering this one for a long time, years. I used to blog about my breast cancer crap (and if it ' s cancer, it is crap) all the time. I mean, ALL the time. Because breast cancer was the center of my life. I was going through treatment and coping with diagnosis and all the fun stuff going along with it.So since I got through treatment and moved on to other ailments, I have not blogged about breast cancer as much. I have thought a lot about this. I have even considered renaming my blog.After a lot of thought, I have decided the reason I don ' t blog about breast cancer is that I am trying to bury all thoughts of...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 29, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: blogging breast cancer coping Source Type: blogs

Dark Thoughts That Come With Metastatic Breast Cancer
There are a lot of dark, foreboding moments when you are living with metastatic breast cancer. There is no way to describe the feeling that comes over you when you are hit with the realization that you have this incurable disease, and death is stalking you. I am pretty good at overcoming the doom and gloom, but frankly, there are some deep, dark thoughts that occasionally invade my mind. I Think About Dying There are those moments when I really understand that death is imminent. There is no cure at this time; this cancer could kill me. I am constantly thinking about the fabulous women who have already died from breast canc...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - February 9, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer living with people Source Type: blogs

Your Brain On Cancer
Once you enter cancerland, your brain takes detours all the time. Where do these detours go? BAD PLACES!" Is that a zit? No, of course not. Its a tumor. Must be skin cancer. "" A headache? No, a brain tumor. Dead in 3 months. "" Is that a swollen lymph node? Quick, leukemia or lymphoma, which one? "As you can easily see you brain with cancer goes down the wrong roads. Usually in the middle of the night. Or when your are stuck in traffic by yourself.You start making little deals with yourself. " I ' ll wait a month and see if its still a problem. No, a month? No three weeks. Wait, two weeks. Maybe ten days. Do I have any bl...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 11, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer detection fear of cancer living with cancer stress Source Type: blogs

TBT: Getting Diagnosed with Cervical Cancer
In honor of it being Cervical Cancer Awareness Month today’s TBT post is one we ran as part of a series back in 2014. January is Cervical Cancer Month. According to the CDC, in 2010 11,818 women in the United States were diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3,939 women died from the disease. And while these statistics are disheartening, once the leading cause of death in women, cervical cancer has rapidly declined over the past 40 years.  The decline in cases can be attributed to preventative medicine: more women are getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer. Throughout t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer TBT Women's Health Source Type: blogs

Cancer and family planning: A guy’s perspective.
For my book Everything Changes, I interviewed a young adult cancer survivor whose body could no longer produce eggs nor carry a child.  When she met her husband, he was set on having children with his genetic material.  So, they found an egg donor and hired a separate woman as a surrogate who carried the children.  They now have twins, the surrogate is in their lives as an aunt, and while the survivor loves her children, she still has some residual emotional challenges about how they were conceived. What interests me as much as the decisions cancer survivors make in response to their complex family planning needs is the...
Source: Everything Changes - February 19, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kairol Rosenthal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs