Women with a personal history of breast cancer should consider annual screening with MRI in addition to mammography, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The American Cancer Society (ACS) guidelines currently recommend annual screening with breast MRI in women with a known gene mutation [...]
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MRI screening for women with history of breast cancer
Posted in Research, tagged american cancer society, breast cancer, Constance Lehman, Grace Kalish, mammogram, MRI breast screening, Peter Eby, Radiological Society of North America, Robert Gutierrez, seattle cancer care alliance, Sue Peacock, University of Washington Medical Center, Wendy B. DeMartini on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Living in radical amazement
Posted in Inspiration, Inspiring Quotations, tagged Abraham Joshua Heschel, inspirational quote, pictures of snow in Ireland, spirituality on November 30, 2010 | 15 Comments »
This past week we saw the first snowfall of the season in Ireland, and suddenly our ordinary everyday landscape is transformed. We look at everything around us through fresh eyes, marvelling at the newness and the beauty of what yesterday we took for granted. The air is hushed and still all the better to pause [...]
Meat Free Monday
Posted in Recipe, tagged hors d'oeuvres, mushroom nutritional content, Nigel Slater, Nigel's Simple Suppers, starter, stuffed mushrooms on November 29, 2010 | 6 Comments »
One of my favourite TV cookery shows at the moment is Nigel’s Simple Suppers. I love to see how chef Nigel Slater whizzes up everyday store cupboard ingredients into a tasty midweek supper. In last week’s show, he made the most divine supper dish (or could be served as a starter/hors d’oeuvres) from mushrooms, herbs and [...]
What is your pain personality?
Posted in Personal Reflections, Uncategorized, tagged Padmini Mangunta, pain personality, pain quiz on November 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As I am recovering from surgery this week, I was interested to be emailed this quiz on pain personality. It probes our attitude to pain and I was surprised to see my results were as good as they are, considering I am not particularly handling the pain I am in this week very well at [...]
Rosie O’Donnell turns to poetry during her breast cancer scare
Posted in Celebrities on cancer, tagged breast biopsy, breast scare, Rosie O'Donnell on November 27, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Last week talk show host Rosie O’Donnell was given the all-clear from biopsies performed on her, following the finding of two breast lumps. O’Donnell, 48, whose mother died of breast cancer at 39, says she is particularly vigilant due to her family history. While awaiting the results of her tests, Rosie took to writing poetry on her blog: “another MRI a [...]
Friday Round-Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Breast Cancer blog, Breast Cancer Sisterhood, breast prothesis, Chemo babe, DCIS, ductal carcinoma in situ breast cancer, Grateful for cancer, Heidi van Loggerenberg, johannesburg, pam stephan, south africa, TSA, women with cancer on November 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Today I am introducing a new regular feature on the JBBC blog - a weekly round up of the best of the blogs over the past week. Do let me know if you have read or written anything in the blogosphere which you would like me to include and I will be happy to do so. Pam [...]
Poetry Friday
Posted in Inspiration, tagged norman rockwell, Thanksgiving blessing on November 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Thanksgiving I have been trying to read the script cut in these hills- a language carved in the shimmer of stubble and the solid lines of soil, spoken in the thud of apples falling and the rasp of corn stalks finally bare. The pheasants shout it with a rusty creak as they gather [...]
A Different Kind Of Thanksgiving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andy Koehn, Thanksgiving, Thirty Seconds on November 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Please take a few minutes to check out this amazing video by Andy at Thirty Seconds. It is moving and haunting and will stay with you long after the last frame..just have your tissues ready to hand!
Happy Thanksgiving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gratitude, Happy Thanksgiving, Meister Eckhart on November 25, 2010 | 11 Comments »
One of the things I’m grateful for in my life is that I feel part of a wonderful support community through this blog. While we don’t celebrate the day officially here in Ireland, I feel as if I am sharing in something of the spirit of the day thanks to all my American friends who are celebrating Thanksgiving [...]
How to be beautiful
Posted in Inspiration, tagged beauty, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Inspiration on November 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not [...]
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