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Cancer awareness
I received an email the other day reminding me about getting regular cancer screenings and awareness. I don't think I need much more awareness. I am plenty aware. And I get regular cancer screenings. And more than the average bear. I don't need any more awareness. I would prefer unawareness personally.But with my medical history, they need to be sure they haven't left a molecule unscreened for potential cancer cooties.If you need any cancer awareness I'm happy to give some away.
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 13, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer screening cancer awareness Source Type: blogs
Festivities During Breast Cancer Treatment
A dear aunt travelled across the country to come to my wedding years ago. She was recovering from radiation treatment for breast cancer. She was lively and engaged, but it was clear that there were times when she was fatigued. During those times she would slip away and we would find her lying on a couch or bed quietly resting. I was grateful that she came, but at the time I didn’t realize the extraordinary effort it took for her to attend the wedding.
Holidays and major life events still come with the same family expectations when someone is battling breast cancer. Just this past weekend Easter dinner or Passover had t...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - April 4, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Breast cancer treatment radiation Source Type: blogs
Just say no to cancer
This is the attitude we should all take. We should say no to cancer. Its not going to run my life.Or through this link. At my first diagnosis I said 'What the hell is going on with me?' and decades later had unresolved issues. You may call me a slow learner compared to Gloria Borges. It too me to my second round to be a bit more proactive.Repeat after me: cancer will not suck the life out of me!
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - April 10, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: resistance quality of life cancer bonds Source Type: blogs
Cancer treatment in stealth mode
I find this fascinating. Stealth mode makes me think of spies, CIA, cold war, KGB, NSA, guerrilla warfare, covert operation and all that.I found an article on Smithsonian.com, The War on Cancer Goes Stealth, which explains in detail what exactly they are doing - tricking cells, sneaking past the sentries, etc. I know it needs more testing and many researchers will be busy with this for a long time but treatments targeting individual cancer cells so patients can avoid chemotherapy and enjoy a good quality of life.Here is a TED talk explaining it more with links to more talks on it here. This intrigues me to no end. And conv...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - April 2, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer research medical research Source Type: blogs
To Wig Or Not To Wig – a cancer question – Guest Post
Another new breast cancer blog, this one from Sonia Convery who is now cancer-free two years afetr diagnosis. She writes at courage grace and humor | surviving and thriving after cancer WIG OR NO WIG –THAT WAS THE QUESTION (subtitle: … Continue reading →
Source: Being Cancer Network - April 16, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Living with Cancer Source Type: blogs
Breast cancer risk reduction
There is a new trend in women who are deemed to be at high risk for breast cancer to have a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy. A mastectomy is not minor surgery and comes with its own set of risks. Women who then want reconstruction can be faced with months of additional surgery as well as the issue of implant replacement later in life. Other side effects can linger such as lymphedema for a lifetime.A new government task force (who is spending our money on these things) announced that high risk women should consider taking either tamoxifen or raloxifene to reduce their risk. While the drugs carry their own risks, the...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - April 22, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer risk breast cancer treatment Source Type: blogs
What is so 'feel good' about cancer?
I'm working on this one. I haven't come up with much. There was a recent article in the New York Times about our feel good, pinkification war on breast cancer that has never done much for me. There is also that year 2020 breast cancer deadline which I find just stupid. Seriously in 7 years there will be a cure? We have come a fair distance in the past seven years but that doesn't seem to have us in a position to be done in the next 7. Some pretty little blue bird of happiness will have to drop something off unexpectedly that will do the trick, get through FDA testing and all that, and then drug companies will still gouge t...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 4, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: pinkification satisfaction cancer research Source Type: blogs
The post cancer life
Life after a cancer diagnosis is never the same as before. They (this is the proverbial them) tell you that you will reach a new normal - whatever that is.Some people turn their diagnosis into a turning point in their life where they start eating organic food, take better care of themselves, and appreciate the little things in life.I can say that while I used to exercise regularly. Now I even belong to a gym - it maybe one for dilapidated people - but I even go to it three times a week. And attempt to go for a walk one time a week. I am pretty sure I reach the minimum suggested exercise requirements. I am also attempting p...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 8, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: exercise post cancer Source Type: blogs
The breast cancer treatment gap
Technology is advancing along in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. We now have a genetic test which allows patients to find out if they have a genetic mutation which puts them at high risk of the disease. But then we have the gap - if you have the mutation you get two options:cut off healthy body parts essentialyor spend the rest of your life in constant monitoring through mammograms and MRIs.Neither of those are particularly good are they? If you have a mastectomy and an oophorectomy (ovary removal) as Angelina Jolie is, you put yourself instantly into forced menopause at a young age which causes its own set o...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 16, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer diagnosis cancer treatment breast cancer Source Type: blogs
More on the breast cancer treatment gap
A few weeks ago I blogged about the breast cancer treatment gap where women who are told they are BRCA positive only have surgical options to lower their risk of breast or ovarian cancer. It turns out this is growing in significance because of genetic testing progress.This started when Angelina Jolie announced she had a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy because she was BRCA positive. Unless you have been living under a rock you couldn't have missed that story in the news recently.While many people are supportive of her decision, some are not. Here is an article on the other side of the issue - which shows how some people a...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 29, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: insurance costs genetics cancer risk breast cancer Source Type: blogs
Gonna Fly Now – guest cancer blog
Here is the first in our new Spring class of cancer bloggers. Mysti was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer just last October. She lives in Texas with her two sons and husband. She has a spunky writing style. He … Continue reading →
Source: Being Cancer Network - June 6, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Ovarian cancer Source Type: blogs
A cancer database
The proverbial 'they' always talk about cancer patients and success stories either in generalities full of percentages with lots of big words - 37% of patients with diagnosis A tend to show positive responses to treatment protocol Q while 82% show positive responses to protocol ZB37. Then you hear stories about individuals who had this outcome or that one.But what if it could all be consolidated into a big pie where it could be dissected and analyzed? Then the data could be better understand and prognoses could be better predicted. Patients might even handle treatment better. Who would have thunk? Individualized medi...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 7, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer information cancer research Source Type: blogs
Festivities During Breast Cancer Treatment
A dear aunt travelled across the country to come to my wedding years ago. She was recovering from radiation treatment for breast cancer. She was lively and engaged, but it was clear that there were times when she was fatigued. During those times she would slip away and we would find her lying on a couch or bed quietly resting. I was grateful that she came, but at the time I didn’t realize the extraordinary effort it took for her to attend the wedding.
Holidays and major life events still come with the same family expectations when someone is battling breast cancer. Just this past weekend Easter dinner or Passover had t...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - April 4, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
Spiraling cancer costs
I find the costs of all medical care, particularly end of life care and cancer care, to be increasing exponentially. Researchers come up with new medications based on smaller and smaller groups of patients. Drug manufacturers charge more and more in an effort to 'recoup' their research costs.Doctors understand this financial burden and are more and more beginning to take action and have discussions on this. I found this article very interesting and worth the read or the view (both in video and text).One point that they made is that new drugs may help 20% of a population but if all are treated with the drug in an effort to ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 12, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: doctors cancer treatment medical costs Source Type: blogs
I had a cancer and I still have
- days when cancer never crosses my mind
- a wiggle in my walk
- a sex life
- good, equitable relationships with the people that I love
- days when I forget how lucky I am and get hooked on the things in my life that aren’t quite how I would like them to be
- moments when the hurt that the experience of cancer has caused to the people I love feels overwhelmingly unfair
- nights when I dream that the cancer never went away
- a sense of myself that is not attached to the disease
- puckery little scars that sometimes seem to mock me when I put one of my lovely bras on (and I only have lovely bras these days)
- a drop of...
Source: Bah! to cancer - July 12, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Musings Recovery From Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
