Category Archive: Younger Women and Breast Cancer

Weekly Round Up: Cancer Platitudes and Pet Peeves Edition

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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

Weekly Round Up Is Back!

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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

She never even had a chance to hold her child

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I am heartsore to have turned to Laurel’s blog today and learned of her death. Another beautiful, vibrant, young woman taken from us. Earlier this year, Laurel was a guest contributor to a… Continue reading

Wrapping Up Infertility Week

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  It’s time to wrap up this special week of guest posts with deep gratitude to Justine, Laurel, Sharon, Stacey, Catherine and Chloe for generously taking part.  In each of their heartfelt stories,… Continue reading

Chloë’s Story: Fertility and the Single Girl

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I’ll be honest from the outset. I’m single, with no children, and I’m 40 in June, and I accept that this current absence of love for another person affects the way I view… Continue reading

Catherine’s Story: The Children of my Daydreams

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  Years ago, and I mean nearly ten years ago, my husband – then boyfriend – and I would lay in bed on a Saturday morning and not get out till about noon.… Continue reading

New Hope for Fertility Preservation In Breast Cancer Patients

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Good news for young women with a diagnosis of breast cancer. Adding a hormone-suppressing drug to chemotherapy helps avert premature menopause in hormone-insensitive breast cancer patients, according to a recent clinical trial that some… Continue reading

What Are The Issues Facing Younger Women With Breast Cancer?

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Being diagnosed with breast cancer at any age is an overwhelming and frightening experience, but being diagnosed with breast cancer when you are a younger woman brings its own unique challenges. Facing a… Continue reading

My Breast Cancer Story

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Click here to watch video  I really enjoyed the experience of live streaming a talk on my experience of breast cancer for the GE Healthcare Breast Cancer Mosaic. The video is a bit… Continue reading

Breast Cancer: 9 Years On

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It seems incredible to me that it is nine years since my diagnosis of breast cancer.  When I first started this blog I used to mark my “cancerversary” each year, but I no… Continue reading