Category Archive: Patient Empowerment

Melissa Etheridge promotes breast cancer awareness

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Singer, Melissa Etheridge, who was diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago, is promoting a month-long breast cancer awareness program at the Hard Rock Cafe. Melissa maintains that she is healthier now than… Continue reading

New social network for women touched by HER2+ breast cancer

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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion. Barry Lopez As regular readers know, I don’t need any convincing when it comes to the… Continue reading

More research needed to help DCIS

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So back to business again this morning and today I am highlighting a recent medical story which recommends that more research is needed to indicate which DCIS patients are candidates for less invasive surgery. This is something… Continue reading

Do you know what your body is telling you?

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As cancer survivors, I reckon we are all very tuned into what our bodies are telling us. Perhaps  too tuned in at times, when every slight ache and twinge can lead to fears… Continue reading

Your life in YOUR hands

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Your Life in your Hands is a title of a book by Dr Jane Plant, dealing with the choices she made in her own breast cancer treatment. From the moment I read the… Continue reading