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… Continue reading
Are you looking for a new job after cancer treatment? Perhaps you left your last employment after your diagnosis, or maybe you are still in your current job but want a fresh start… Continue reading
“In a society which is much more inclined to help you hide your pain rather than to grow through it, is necessary to make a very conscious effort to mourn.” – Henri Nouwen Grief… Continue reading
Normal Day Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.Let me not pass you by in quest of some… Continue reading
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 […]
The Thing Is to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When… Continue reading
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
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
I debated posting this research as the aim of this blog is not to scare anyone, but to offer hope and evidence-based research on best practice. However, the fact remains that re-occurence of… Continue reading
I have just been viewing some photographs of the Irish Cancer Society’s Garden of Hope. Over 5000 daffodils with messages of support, rememberence and love were planted in the Phoenix Park, Dublin to mark Daffodil… Continue reading
Jade Goody passed away in her sleep this morning at home in Essex. In the past few months, Jade’s story and her decision to die in the public eye has been criticised, villified, admired… Continue reading
This Sunday, 22 March, is Mother’s Day and breast cancer survivor, Julie-Anne Dineen whose single, Do You Believe tops the Irish charts, has expressed a special Mother’s Day wish. Julie-Anne hopes her single will… Continue reading
I really admire the Young Survival Coalition and the work they do. Although they are based in the USA, I made full use of their online resources when I was looking for answers… Continue reading
For women with recurrent breast cancer, the treatment the doctor chooses is usually based on the properties of their original breast cancer. A group from Toronto has recently completed the world’s first study… Continue reading
Letrozole significantly prolongs disease-free survival (DFS) and time to distant recurrence compared with tamoxifen for postmenopausal women with endocrine-responsive breast cancer, researchers stated at the St. Gallen Oncology Conferences: Primary Therapy of Early… Continue reading
The following report appears in British Journal of Cancer and provides more evidence of the important role of Specialist Breast Centres. Radiographers can help examine screening mammograms, say Dutch researchers who believe their… Continue reading
EastEnders star Wendy Richard, who lost her battle with cancer last month, urged those undergoing cancer treatment to never give up in a moving documentary. The documentary, Wendy Richard: To Tell You The Truth,… Continue reading
A NEW WEAPON in the war against cancer could be found in humans if a new research project bears out. The work is being undertaken by Irish woman Lydia Lynch, who was recently… Continue reading
