
Hope and Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Now in Paperback
By Patricia Prijatel on October 8th, 2014 Categories: Symptoms & DiagnosisRemember when your doctor told you that you had breast cancer?
“Oh, yes,” you sigh.
And remember when your doctor told you it was an especially aggressive form called triple-negative, or estrogen negative?
“Oh, yes,” you shudder.
I suspect your reaction was like mine — confusion and terror.
Well, I was there eight years ago, and now, look what I have done. I survived. Eight …

(Un) Common Knowledge Transcript
By Patricia Prijatel on April 3rd, 2013 Categories: Day-to-Day MattersBelow 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 …

SABCS: A Recap of Triple-Negative Research
By Patricia Prijatel on December 11th, 2012 Categories: Symptoms & DiagnosisThe best news from the 2013 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium is its emphasis on triple-negative breast cancer. There are so many papers presented on the subject that I can’t keep up. Those of us who have been hanging around this dance for a long time—I was diagnosed in 2006—remember the frustration of seeing and hearing little about this disease from researchers and nothing from …

You CAN Survive Triple-Negative
By Patricia Prijatel on September 28th, 2011 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyTriple-negative breast cancer has caught the attention of major researchers throughout the world, which is a great thing—it means that we are learning more and more about how to prevent and treat this illness. The downside of the research popularity is that the media and medical journals have developed depressing and frightening catch phrases for it, such as deadly, particularly aggressive or, my favorite, a…