The current issue of People magazine features Christina Applegate as part of their Most Beautiful 2009 list. The star admits that after being diagnosed with breast cancer last March, she had “a rollercoaster of emotions, but there was a calm about what I had to do.” The Samantha Who? actress, 37, underwent a double mastectomy, followed [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Christina Applegate is most beautiful
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christina applegate, breast cancer, Samantha Who, double mastectomy, People magazine, Most Beautiful 2009, reconstructive surgery on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beauty in Pink
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beauty in Pink, beauty salons Ireland, dublin, Marie Keating Foundation, Nu Essence, pedicure, South Anne Street on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beauty in Pink is a fundraising event by the Marie Keating Foundation running all this week. Participating beauty salons can invite their clients to book a treatment on any given day during Beauty in Pink week and help support the Marie Keating Foundation. Clients have the opportunity to purchase Marie Keating Foundation merchandise or even just [...]
Report claims not enough being done for cancer survivors
Posted in Survivorship, tagged cancer survivorship, Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academies on April 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A report from the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academies documented what almost every cancer survivor already knows: not enough is being done for cancer survivors as they transition out of acute cancer treatment. An important recommendation from this report is to make survivorship a distinct phase of cancer treatment [...]
Doodling
Posted in Cancer and Spirituality, Personal Reflections, Survivorship, tagged art, breast cancer, Carol Ross Edmonston, Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor’s Soul, journalling, meditation, reduce stress and anxiety, SacredDoodles, stresses and anxieties of cancer on April 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are many ways in which we learn to cope with the stresses and anxieties of cancer or indeed any serious disease. Some people find journalling helps, others art or meditation. For Carol Ross Edmonston who survived breast cancer, not once, but twice, the art of doodling gave her the means to creatively learn how [...]
Cancer survival rates rise in Ireland
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Belfast, Cancer incidence, Cancer survival rates in Ireland, EUREKALERT, Irish Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney, mortality, National Cancer Control Programme, National Cancer Registry (NCRI) of Ireland, prostate cancer, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin, rte, treatment and survival in the North and South of Ireland: 1994-2004 on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just as I reported in the last few days that cancer deaths are falling in the UK, an all-Ireland report issued today also shows that survival rates for cancer are continuing to rise, even though the number of cases being diagnosed is increasing. The report entitled Cancer incidence, mortality, treatment and survival in the North and [...]
Mary Robinson to chair LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Doug Ulman, dublin, first female President of Ireland, lance armstrong, Lance Armstrong Foundation, LIVESTRONG, LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit, Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) has announced that Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will serve as Honorary Chairperson of the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit. The Summit, to be held in Dublin, Ireland August 24-26, 2009, is the landmark event of the LIVESTRONG Global [...]
1st ARC Men’s Mini Marathon
Posted in Fundraising, tagged 1st ARC Men’s Mini Marathon, ARC, Cancer support centre, dublin, ireland, may bank holiday weekend, Phoenix Park on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ARC (Aftercare, Research & Counselling) are a registered community based cancer support centre, caring for men and women living with cancer, their family and friends. All of the services are free of charge to all who attend no matter where they live or what hospital they attend. I can testify to the wonderful service they [...]
Breast cancer deaths fall in the UK
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anastrozole, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, breast cancer, Cancer Research UK, chemotherapy, Dr Sarah Cant, Professor Peter Johnson, radiotherapy, Tamoxifen on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The latest figures analysed by Cancer Research UK show that the number of women dying from breast cancer in the UK has fallen to its lowest level since records began. In 2007, 11,990 women in the UK died from breast cancer. In 1971 – the first year statistics were collected – 12,472 women died from [...]
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