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Don ’t Believe These 3 Myths About Living With Cancer
When people find out that I have stage 4 terminal breast cancer, they have varied reactions. Some are saddened and compassionate, some are concerned and curious, and others, because of their own fears, need to find an explanation — a way to feel in control.
This often leads to myths about living with cancer that can be insulting to those of us who are battling the disease.
Let’s examine the truth behind three of these myths:
Myth #1: If you are a positive person with a great attitude, you won’t get cancer.
My father, mother, and niece all battled cancer. My parents were anything but people who gave in or gave up. Th...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - March 8, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Nutrition Risk Factors treatment 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
Is Moving On After Cancer A Myth?
I am approachingmy ten year anniversary of the ten year mark after my breast cancer diagnosis. Am I supposed to celebrate? I think so but I am not sure how much of a celebration it is. It doesn ' t mean I can say it is gone for good. It just means that in the ten years since I was diagnosed with breast cancer and I am still here.Now I do know that is a good thing. But am I supposed to celebrate? But I don ' t feel like celebrating. I am not sure that I should celebrate. I certainly won ' t be having a party.The last ten years have been a growing time for me emotionally (and for my waistline). I have had many new experience...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 29, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: living with cancer Source Type: blogs
Waiting for Cancer Research
After 12 years (how the heck did that happen?) of breast cancer coping, I have actually seen some cancer research go from new or in clinical trials to become standard of care. This includes length of hormonal treatment for breast cancer patients. But it does not include many, many others.Some cancer ' breakthroughs ' are still in trials, or have vanished because they didn ' t work. They provide us cancer people with instant elation at the possibilities it hints at, followed by deflation as we realize it is years or decades in the future.An example of this is this news that at UVA they are working to find a wayto stop tripl...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 4, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer treatment cancer research clinical trials waiting Source Type: blogs
Breast Cancer the Socially Acceptable Cancer
A breast cancer diagnosis is no fun. Actually any cancer diagnosis is no fun. We all know that. But maybe because of all the ' awareness ' , it is now more socially acceptable than other forms of cancer. Isn ' t that just weird? I think so.Meanwhile, a woman in New Zealand was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer andshe wonders if breast cancer would be better because of the stigma surrounding smoking and lung cancer.I think lung cancer is the only cancer which is regarded as ' self inflicted ' . Face it, as normal human beings we associate lung cancer with smoking. But not all smokers get lung cancer and not all lung...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 12, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer bonds cancer stigma lung cancer support Source Type: blogs
Cancer again....
Did you know that if you have cancer once you have a 3.5-36.9% chance of getting an unrelated second cancer (been there, done that). And that 70% of cancer people have a comorbid condition which requires better medical care for the rest of their life. So maybe you smoked and got one cancer, 15 years later you find you have lung cancer, eve though you quit smoking at your first diagnosis.No I don ' t make this stuff up. Someone finally did a study on people who have cancer once and rates of developing a new cancer. They found out lots of interesting things:Many people who have cancer once do not take steps to redu...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 28, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer awareness cancer detection cancer risk 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
Sharing Your Cancer Diagnosis – guest post
For a lot of us this problem presents itself right at a time when you really have too many other things to worry about: you are newly diagnosed with cancer. Who to tell? When to tell them? For Dee, today’s guest blogger, the problem was magnified by the extra sensitivity surrounding her diagnosis of vaginal cancer. Dee just started her blog in January at WHAT kind of cancer?
Please give her a visit.
Sharing your diagnosis….to tell, or not to tell
Having a cancer diagnosis, particularly a vaginal cancer diagnosis, brings with it the awkward position of either having to tell people what’s going on...
Source: Being Cancer Network - March 23, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Newly diagnosed Acceptance Anxiety Vaginal cancer Source Type: blogs
Cancer on our Calendar – guest post
A dreary wet Monday after a gorgeous sunny Sunday. Being it is the second week of March though, I can’t complain. Crocous have been in bloom for weeks now. Tulips starting to bud. Trees and bushes too. It really feels like Spring. But this evening I must return to work at the clinic where it is still a cold winter for some.
Today’s breast cancer blogger hails from the UK. Yvonne has been penning her posts for a little over a year now. I decided to include her “About me” profile as it is such a succinct and well written introduction to writing about cancer. You can find Yvonne at time...
Source: Being Cancer Network - March 12, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Breast cancer Source Type: blogs
This is a blog about cancer after all
I realize this is a blog about cancer and living with a cancer diagnosis. but sometimes I don't blog about cancer. Well, I do have lots of other ailments to blog about. And I try to ignore cancer so I'm not living in cancerland where its all cancer all the time. But it does loom in the background of my life often. Well, almost constantly. Its hard to make it go away. I am ignoring it. I have one of 'those' appointments coming up that I am really trying to ignore. Its one of the appointments where there are negotiations, watchful waiting and discussions on what to do next.I have no new cancer research to write about now. I ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 28, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: appointments pain cancer attitude Source Type: blogs
When Cancer Comes Home
Yesterday was National Cancer Day. Now who thought of that? We have President’s Day, Memorial Day and Martin Luther King Day. It makes sense to honor heroes and leaders, but a whole day to acknowledge the enemy? That is just plain ridiculous!
There is no greater enemy to the United States than cancer. It claims more American lives than any war and shakes millions of American homes to the core every year. Cancer consumes billions of American health-care dollars, it uses up valuable resources and it steals our peace. The day is meant by promoters to raise awareness and debunk cancer myths but that is something we should ...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - February 5, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Breast cancer diagnosis Breast cancer recurrence national cancer day survivng cancer Source Type: blogs
Genetic Testing is Breast Cancer Prevention
If you have battled breast cancer and have a family, the greatest fear – even more than recurrence - is that one of your children will develop the disease. A breast cancer diagnosis is brutal on any family when it affects just one member, the thought of other loved ones being ravaged by cancer is an additional burden. My family knows this fear we have tested positive for BRCA2. Besides myself, my loved ones have a very high risk of developing the disease.
Despite all the billions of dollars raised and spent on breast cancer research, the best defense we have against the disease is prevention and early detection. That is...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - March 25, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Health insurance concerns Healthcare cost of breast cancer Source Type: blogs
Further proof that thyroid cancer is not a good cancer
Robert Ebert died the other day of cancer. He had both papillary thyroid cancer and salivary gland cancer. I do not know which cancer was the one that got him in the end and does it really matter?People go around saying thyroid cancer is a good cancer. Its not. It kills people.
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - April 5, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: thyroid cancer Source Type: blogs
book review - But Hope is Longer: Navigating the Country of Breast Cancer*
“I felt like a snake having to shed its old skin... I mourned each layer of myself as I imagined it loosening and separating from me before I sloughed it off and watched it fall to the ground: my resilient good health, my identity, my hopes for a vibrant future. The shedding of each successive layer left me even more naked, raw and vulnerable. At that point, I had no sense that there was any regeneration underway or that there would be anything to replace the parts of myself I was losing.”-Tamara Levine, ButHope is Longer: Navigating the Country of Breast Cancer.Being diagnosed with breast cancer changes you, irrevocab...
Source: Not just about cancer - April 11, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: complementary treatment breast cancer book review health care books good stuff Source Type: blogs
Misconceptions about breast cancer risk
Last night we had dinner with a friend who's mother had breast cancer more than 15 years ago. She was talking about her concern about getting breast cancer. I think both her grandmothers and a couple aunts had breast cancer. Several of them had bilateral mastectomies. This is dating back decades to the 1970s and earlier.She has not been tested for the BRCA genes because it would require her mother to be tested and she didn't want to put her mother through that. That was probably 15 years ago and she hadn't asked since. She was very concerned and sounded like she was sure she would get breast cancer.I asked her a couple que...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - April 21, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: genetics cancer risk cancer diagnosis stress Source Type: blogs
