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Light up a Life

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Pictured above is Cian Kelly (8), Tallaght, Co Dublin, at the Light Up A Life ceremony of remembrance at Our Lady’s Hospice and Care Services, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, last night. Light up a Life… Continue reading →

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Coping with neuropathy

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Unfortunately for many of us, neuropathy is a possible side effect of some common breast cancer treatments, including chemotherapy with taxane medicines like paclitaxel (Taxol) and docetaxel (Taxotere). What is Neuropathy? It is experienced as… Continue reading →

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The outlook is positive for breast cancer in Ireland

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Thanks to vastly improved access to the right care at the right time for women with possible symptoms referred to the eight designated cancer centres, advances in treatments, and a national roll-out of the BreastCheck programme for women without symptoms, the picture for breast cancer in Ireland is far more positive than before.

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Updates from San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference

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I look forward each year to hearing about the latest studies to emerge from the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference – an international scientific symposium for interaction and exchange among basic scientists… Continue reading →

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Adversity is like a strong wind

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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~ Arthur Golden

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Friday Round-Up

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which… Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday

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Rememberance And you wait, keep waiting for that one thing which would infinitely enrich your life: the powerful, uniquely uncommon, the awakening of dormant stones, depths that would reveal you to yourself. In… Continue reading →

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Latest research on treatment of DCIS

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Women with the most common type of non-invasive breast cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are significantly less likely to develop invasive disease if they are given radiotherapy after surgery, and the effect… Continue reading →

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How to Build Resilience – Dedicated to the Memory of Elizabeth Edwards

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   To mark World Mental Health Week, back in October,  I asked some of my favourite bloggers to write a guest post on the theme of Building Resilience.  I want to repost one of… Continue reading →

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Are we too biased toward prophylactic mastectomy?

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I have no idea what it must be like to have to make the decision to undergo a prophylactic mastectomy, the name given to the  surgery that may be done to remove one… Continue reading →