Tag Archive: breast cancer

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How to make the breast cancer journey easier

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Today’s post is written by Patricia Walling,  a graduate student working toward her Masters in Conservation Biology. She has both professional and volunteer experience in a hospital environment and currently resides in Washington… Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Mental Focus

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  The start of this new year of blogging has brought some terrific guest bloggers my way and due to the number of submissions, I have had to keep some in reserve and time… Continue reading →

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Friday Round-Up

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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 →

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It’s a Junior Mint Kinda Day

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Yes, I know I often start off the intro to my guest blog posts by saying it is an honor to have the opportunity to publish these stories, but truly today it is a particularly delightful honor… Continue reading →

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Weekly Round-Up

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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 →

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Friday Round-Up

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Welcome to the first round-up of a New Year. So what has the blogosphere been writing about this past week? Philippa from Feisty Blue Gecko has been writing about that fear of recurrence… Continue reading →

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The Yoga Mat – Its Place in my Cancer Care

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I had been hearing wonderful things from a friend about her yoga teacher, and when she told me that Sighle had been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, I got in touch and asked her if you… Continue reading →

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The Well Trodden Path

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UPDATE: The following post was written by Rachel Moro Cheetham, a beloved member of the breast cancer blogging community. It is with great sadness that I update this with the news that Rachel… Continue reading →

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Understanding a sentinel lymph node biopsy

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When breast cancer spreads, it often appears first in the sentinel node–the first node to which the tumor drains. I had a full axillary clearance when diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 – no… Continue reading →

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MRI screening for women with history of breast cancer

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Women with a personal history of breast cancer should consider annual screening with MRI in addition to mammography, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North… Continue reading →