Happy Birthday To Me
Today is my birthday. I feel I did a lot of my celebrating 11 days ago on my cancerversary, but can’t help also remembering that birthday I spent in 2004 in hospital just… Continue reading
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Support Breast Health Day
European Breast Health Day takes place on 15th October and women are being urged to do do something active to mark the day. You can do this by organising an “Exercise Event” in… Continue reading
Fertility hope for younger women with breast cancer
At the risk of repeating myself ad infinitum on the subject, regular readers will know of my distress over the effect of chemotherapy on my fertility as a young woman with cancer, and… Continue reading
Breast cancer survivor honoured
Kristin Hallenga, received a Pride of Britain award this week for launching a breast cancer awareness campaign, Coppa Feel, while undergoing treatment for the disease. After receiving her award, the 23-year-old said: “That was just wow!… Continue reading
More women choose contralateral prophylactic mastectomy
The number of women with cancer in one breast who opt to have the other breast preventively removed — known as a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy — more than doubled from 1995 through 2005… Continue reading
Moving towards targeted cancer treatment
Scientists are close to discovering how breast cells become cancerous it emerged yesterday. Dr Paul Edwards from Cambridge University has identified a gene called NRG1 which is linked to more than half of… Continue reading
Scientists on brink of cancer treatment revolution
Cancer treatment will be dramatically transformed in the near future as a number of research projects reach fruition. Sir David Lane, chief scientist at Cancer Research UK, revealed this week that teams are… Continue reading
9 things you should know about breast cancer
Yesterday I attended the launch by Europa Donna Ireland (EDI) of a leaflet highlighting the 9 things every woman in Ireland should know about breast cancer. It is the first time a… Continue reading
Would you take a pill to erase bad memories?
This was the question I pondered today as I read about a drug which has been developed to erase painful memories. If you have seen the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless… Continue reading
Virtual cancer model developed
Researchers at UK’s Dundee University have been given more than £1.5m to come up with a model that can measure the shape and speed of cancer. The university has long pioneered the use… Continue reading
