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On Not Blogging About Breast Cancer
You might have noticed that I haven ' t been blogging about breast cancer recently. Why? Because my brain has been filled with non-breast cancer issues that take up the entire health section of it.My brain is full of knee, RA, fibromyalgia, and other health issues. Like why can ' t I stop taking a couple of medications (a couple of serious conversations are upcoming)? Or why can ' t my hands and feet hurt less even though I am taking all these meds to make them stop hurting? Or when will my knee be all better and get back to normal? And why did I manage to get so tired yesterday when all I did was go to a yarn store (and s...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 15, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: blogging breast cancer knee surgery Source Type: blogs
Cancer Friends
For the past two days I have spent time with different cancer friends. I call them cancer friends because I met them all through cancer situations - one group from my old support group and two others I met at different cancer retreats.What was the gist of all our conversations? Our health and our numbers of ailments. We all have ailments we are coping with. Some of us have new or potential ailments which bring us concern. Some of the ailments are side effects of our cancer treatments. We do not all have cancer concerns right now but that always lurk in the background. And we all know it will never go away.We shared test re...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 28, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer bonds cancer support friends Source Type: blogs
Aggressive Breast Cancer In Younger Women
Younger women with breast cancer always seem to (my tiny non-medical mind) be either very late stage and/or aggressive and require more aggressive treatment. And somenew research may explain why." Researchers at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom found that women aged 15 –39 who had early-onset breast cancer possessed specific gene variations that were associated with increased disease progression.Lead study author Dr. William Tapper — from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton — and team say that their results not only shed light on why younger women with breast cancer have l...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 18, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer cancer research genes Source Type: blogs
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
I have found there are two key conferences to follow to keep up with the latest cancer news annually. First of all, each June there is the annualASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncologists) conference held around the country. As oncologists come together and the outcome produces a slew of new research news for all types of cancer translated into normal English.Second, is the annualSan Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium held in early/mid-December each year in San Antonio TX. That was just held and so much news was just released. There was so much new news that you should go read it all yourself if you want to stay up on the...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 21, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer cancer research cancer treatment learning medical research Source Type: blogs
The Young Adult Ignored Cancer Patients
This is one of my pet peeves. Children with cancer have their mature, sane parents advocating for them. Adults with cancer can advocate for themselves.The young adults - 15 to 30s - often don ' t find the same support or resources. First they are still trying to figure out who they are and what they will do with their life. Second, they are learning to be independent and should be focusing on their education and careers, not going to chemotherapy. There is hope now that online resources can help fill the gaps for the patients and maybe for the doctors as well." In addition, they will probably go on to live long lives and t...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 22, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer bonds cancer treatment side effects young cancer patients Source Type: blogs
Cancer Cure?
No there is not a cancer cure. We need to keep remembering that. We are told by our doctors that there is no evidence of disease or some thing along those lines - which just boils down to " we are not capable of finding it yet " . If your doctor tells you that you are cured, please find a new one asap.In this day and ageshould there be a new definition of cured of cancer? I ' m not sure. I have friends who tell me they are cured. I try to figure out what they are talking about. Seriously, where did this cured business come from? I want to question their position on this but in some ways do not want to know." Upon completio...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 7, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: being a patient cancer bonds cancer cure cancer treatment lies Source Type: blogs
New Breast Cancer Research Found A Factor that Doubles Death Risk
Isn ' t that a warm fuzzy feeling? Now I want toask my oncologist if I have this factor. But first let me see if I can explain it. This is the precis:" Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that the risk of death from breast cancer is twice as high for patients with high heterogeneity of the estrogen receptor within the same tumour as compared to patients with low heterogeneity. The study, which is published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, also shows that the higher risk of death over a span of 25 years is independent of other known tumour markers and also holds true for Luminal A ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 21, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer treatment cancer research cancer risk hormone receptor status Source Type: blogs
More ' Uplifting ' News on Breast Cancer Recurrences
Sometimes I wish they would stop researching breast cancer so we stop getting such ' good ' news. New research was meant to look at whether some hormone receptor positive breast cancer patientscould stop taking tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors such as Femara, Aromasin, or Arimidex. However they found instead that ER/PR+ breast cancers can ' smolder ' (their word, not mine) for twenty years or more, before recurring.Aromatase inhibitors and tamoxifen inhibit the production of estrogen which feeds these ER/PR+ breast cancers. The longer you are on the medication, the longer you are protected from a recurrence. However, some...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 3, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer treatment cancer research frustration Source Type: blogs
Brachytherapy for Breast Cancer Follow Up
Back in 2007, when I was diagnosed and treated for my breast cancer, I heard about this new technique for the radiation portion of treatment,brachytherapy. I was jealous. It was not offered at my hospital. The big thing I liked was that it took so much less time for treatment.Breast cancer treatment takes a LONG time. I was diagnosed at the end of May, after two surgeries that went into July, I finished chemo in December, and needed one more surgery (don ' t ask). I was then facing 7 weeks of radiation. I just wanted to be done. Since brachytherapy wasn ' t available I had the standard radiation treatment. I couldn ' t eve...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 11, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer treatment cancer research radiation Source Type: blogs
Treatment Resistance Breast Cancer
Most breast cancers are hormone receptor positive or (ER+) and are treated with multiple therapies including chemotherapy and hormone therapies including tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors. But the problem is then that after they metastasize, a third of them become resistance to treatment and will cause your demise." Such endocrine therapies, including tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitor drugs, can prevent recurrence of early breast cancer, and can slow the progression of metastatic disease. However, in about one-third of patients with metastatic ER-positive breast cancer, treatment with endocrine therapies leads ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 15, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer treatment cancer research clinical trials metastatic cancer Source Type: blogs
Comparing Prognostic Breast Cancer Tests
Back in the late 2000 ' s, I heard about the new Oncotype Dx test that was just coming available for women who had early stage breast cancer and could help in the decision making process - whether to chemotherapy or not. The test was supposed to tell your risk of recurrence. That was great news (of course I was not eligible because of my medical history...) and many women found their risk and made the big chemotherapy decision.New research has looked at the results of these tests and compared them. They looked at these four tests: Oncotype Dx Recurrence Score, PAM50-based Prosigna Risk of Recurrence Score (ROR), Breast Can...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 16, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer treatment cancer recurrence test results Source Type: blogs
Hidden Scars from Breast Cancer
Yes there are lots of hidden scars in breast cancer. I have discussed the emotional side a lot - which boils down to PTSD for some. But there is also the physical side. Every time you look at your body and see your cancer scars, you are reminded of your cancer misadventure. Its only a scar that will fade over time but its still there.Back in 1984, I found my first breast lump. Due to the limitations of surgery at the time, I had to have an excisional biopsy. And because of my medical history (three years after thyroid cancer) they had to be sure. (And if you are trying to calculate my age, I am still only 37). So I h...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 6, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer treatment lumpectomy progress scars surgery Source Type: blogs
Coping with Other ' s Cancer
When you are diagnosed with cancer, you are faced with the World of Oncology. Inside that world lies the answers to your questions and how to keep you alive. As you go through diagnosis and treatment, you get to educate yourself on your illness and what ' s involved in getting through it.Oncologists have to go to medical school to learn all this crap. Us patients get the express pass and learn it much faster and more intimately. Doctor ' s say ' may cause nausea and hair loss ' . We know it means we will watch our hair fall out as we shop for a wig and try to keep something in our stomachs. We learn what the truth really i...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 24, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer diagnosis cancer information cancer treatment coping Source Type: blogs
Can Breast Cancer return in a Reconstructed Breast?
Some women are scared to consider breast reconstruction after a mastectomy because they think it will increase the risk of the breast cancer coming back. This is a common misconception. Thankfully, it's not the case.
Breast cancer can come back even after a mastectomy. However, the risk of the cancer returning (ie a "recurrence") after a mastectomy is very low and is the same whether you have breast reconstruction or not. Studies have compared patients with similar stage breast cancers and found no difference in recurrence between patients undergoing mastectomy alone (without reconstruction) and those having skin-sparing...
Source: Breast Cancer Reconstruction Blog - June 4, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer breast cancer recurrence breast reconstruction reconstructed breast Source Type: blogs
With Stage 4 Breast Cancer, ‘ Pinktober ’ Awareness Just Isn ’ t Enough
The worst thing about living with metastatic breast cancer during Pinktober is seeing most of the attention placed on disease awareness and prevention.
We who have been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer are given little hope beyond continued treatment, and we’re slowly losing faith that a cure is coming.
So I am so encouraged by organizations like the Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance (MBC Alliance) that are dedicated to helping people with this terminal disease. This organization, whose members are dedicated to giving hope and making life better for us, brings together nonprofits, patients, advocates, and ph...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - October 26, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
