Weekly Round-Up

T 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 I’ve wanted to share with you. Don’t forget if you have written a post which you would like readers to see, just […]

Poetry Friday

The Butterfly Effect For Marie Ennis O’Connor So close and still Quietly far away From the company Who chose you The day you heard The word we all Heard. Echoes In a canyon… Continue reading →

How Do You Support A Friend With Cancer?

I’m looking for your tips and suggestions on how best to help a friend with cancer, for an article I’m writing on this topic.  As individuals with our own experience of cancer are… Continue reading →

A-Z of Blogging: H is for Hair #AtoZChallenge

26 posts. 26 days. 26 letters of the alphabet, one blog post beginning with each letter. H is for Hair I started this blog a few years after my breast cancer diagnosis and… Continue reading →

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Young Women and Breast Cancer

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Young women can and do get breast cancer. I was 35 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer.  While breast cancer in young women accounts for a relatively small percentage of all diagnosed… Continue reading →

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The pearl quotation

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“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life….The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded,… Continue reading →

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Breast cancer risk assessment and prevention must start earlier

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A recent study of risk factors for breast cancer in young women suggests risk assessment and prevention, using techniques that avoid radiation, such as MRI, should start much earlier in life. The study… Continue reading →

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After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger

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After Cancer Treatment, Heal Faster, Better, Stronger, has been written by a doctor who is both a breast cancer survivor and a cancer rehabilitation specialist. Julie Silver was diagnosed at age 36, at… Continue reading →

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Can facebook give you cancer?

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This  provocative, headline grabbing piece of “journalism”  appeared in today’s Daily Mail online.  If you take the time to read through the piece, you will quickly see it for what it is… a… Continue reading →

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Menopause drug greatly increases risk of cancer recurrence

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WOMEN with a history of breast cancer are being urged to avoid taking a menopause drug now known to greatly increase the risk of the cancer returning. Results of a study published yesterday… Continue reading →

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Switching to aromatase inhibitor may lower risk of recurrence

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A recent study, presented at the prestigious 31st Annual  San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, has found that women who switched to an aromatase inhibitor (AI) after two to three years of Tamoxifen lowered… Continue reading →

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Online service to streamline cancer referral process

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From yesterday’s Irish Examiner: AN electronic online service funded by the Health Service Executive is to be used to streamline the cancer referral process between GPs and hospitals, Ireland’s cancer control chief said yesterday.… Continue reading →

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Cancer tests go up after Goody diagnosis

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From today’s Guardian Newspaper: Cervical cancer specialists are putting a rise in demand for screening down to a  “Jade Goody effect” after the reality television star revealed at the weekend that she was… Continue reading →

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Cancer Support Conference, 27th – 28th February 2009

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The Irish Cancer Society is holding a conference which will be of interest to anyone with a history of cancer or who is going through cancer treatment (and their spouses and partners). Issues… Continue reading →