Weekly Round Up
Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blogs which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve… Continue reading
Category Archive: Younger Women and Breast Cancer
Conference for Young Women Affected By Breast Cancer
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
Annual Conference for Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer
I am all packed and ready for the 11th Annual Conference for Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer, which takes place this weekend, in Orlando, FL. This will be my second time attending… Continue reading
Meet Breast Cancer Woman
Today’s guest post comes from Christina Dowling Olachia, a 37 year old mother of two wonderful, precocious boys, a wife and a breast cancer survivor. Christina’s stage 2B, Triple Negative Breast Cancer came on January 27,… Continue reading
Menstrual cycle affects mammogram sensitivity
Now here is some interesting and useful advice for us. Try to schedule your screening mammogram during the first week of your menstrual cycle. It might make breast cancer screening more accurate for… Continue reading
Are we too biased toward prophylactic mastectomy?
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
Determining fertility after cancer
As soon as I had finished the last of my cancer treatment, I was anxious to get some tests done to see what damage had been done to my reproductive system and what… Continue reading
From Cancer to Motherhood
Today’s guest post is a subject very close to my heart. Special thanks to Dr Sonja Kristiansen MD, a board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist Infertility (REI) specialist, for providing us with her expert advice.… Continue reading
Safe to breast-feed after breast cancer treatment
Women who have survived breast cancer should not be denied the opportunity to breast-feed their children, say researchers who presented the results of a new study at the 35th Congress of the European… Continue reading
