(Un) Common Knowledge Transcript
By Patricia Prijatel on April 3rd, 2013 Categories: Day-to-Day Matters, Symptoms & DiagnosisBelow is an edited version of the webinar I presented through the Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Foundation October 16, 2012. You can still get the actual webinar on the Foundation’s site. It was based on questions sent in from women with TNBC.
I was diagnosed with hormone negative breast cancer in 2006, and I’ve been studying this disease since then, reading research papers, interviewing experts and …
Mothers, Daughters, Grandmothers, Sisters, Aunts & Girlfriends: The Link of Hope
By Patricia San Pedro on March 20th, 2013 Categories: The Breast Cancer Journey“The woman is the foundation on which nations are built. She is the heart of her nation. If that heart is weak, the people are weak. If her heart is strong and her mind is clear, then the nation is strong and knows its purpose. The woman is the center of everything.”
Art Solomon
Ojibwe elder and spiritual leader
For the People: Teachings on the …
Yoga and Healing – A Personal Journey
By Michelle Didner on March 4th, 2013 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyI woke up on my 38th birthday to the cool, green walls of a hospital room in Stamford, Connecticut. Just a week earlier, I was on holiday with my husband and 2-year-old son on Block Island. I stood, on my mobile phone, outside the town bookshop as my doctor explained that I needed to be back in Stamford immediately to meet with a surgeon. …
The Mammography Debate
By Dr. Marisa Weiss on February 19th, 2013 Categories: NewsConfused by all the fighting over the value of mammography? There’s been an active — even fierce — debate about the value of mammography, especially since the November 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations to change screening guidelines to every other year starting at age 50. Breastcancer.org has been a strong proponent of the current guidelines of annual mammography starting at age 40 for …
The Places You’ll Go (After a Diagnosis)
By Jean Kane on February 15th, 2013 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyI’m sorry to say so
but, sadly, it’s true
that Bang-ups
and Hang-ups
can happen to you
– from Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go
I love traveling to new places, beaches, mountains, cities, historic sites — they’re all enchanting to me. But the journey I navigated this last year was a far cry from any other I have ever taken.
I was diagnosed …
