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  • Good Deeds, Good Science: Hope & Heroes Children’s Cancer Fund

    Heroes filed for a 501(c)(3), giving this charity an official stamp.   According to Jeremy Shatan, the acting Executive Director of Hope & Heroes, the clinic sees about 100-150 new patients each year and about 5,000 – 7,000 total patient visits.  This number includes patients who are currently receiving treatment as well as those who have recovered but are still being monitored. The money donated to Hope & Heroes Children’s Cancer Fu…

    Authored by on April 25, 2012

  • From spiders to breast cancer: Leslie Brunetta talks candidly about her cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up

    ks because they were in one of those toddler constant-viral stages, and I really missed them. The Taxol seems to be much less harsh than the AC regimen, so a lot of these side effects started to ease off a bit by the second 8 weeks, which was certainly a relief. I was lucky that I didn’t really have mouth sores or some of the other side effects. Some of this is, I think, just because besides the cancer I don’t have any other health issues. So…

    Authored by on January 31, 2012

  • Breast cancer screening and treatment, especially in younger women

    …recommend starting age 40 for most women. If you have higher or lower risk than average this will vary. #SCCAbcUW Medicine News Mammograms can decrease rate of death from breast cancer, especially true in those women over age 50 #SCCAbc http://1.usa.gov/puQ0NcWendySueSwanson MD RT @seattlecca: T4 Q2: What else can a woman do other than a #mammogram to screen for #breastcancer? #SCCAbcUW Medicine News RT @jrgralow: #SCCAbc Topic 4: Younger women…

    Authored by on October 17, 2012

  • Think pink? I’d rather raise a stink

    s. presents deeply moving and beautiful expressions  from women with breast cancer, along with intensely personal  statements that provide a window into their hearts and minds.”  Claymon died of breast cancer in 2000. She was 61. Prevention is also a primary concern for the Athena Breast Health Network, a partnership of the five University of California medical centers that collects personalized data on breast cancer patients to optimize trea…

    Authored by on October 8, 2012

  • HPV and cervical cancer don’t care what month it is

    …ed against those two strains are, therefore, anti-cancer vaccines. Without a successful viral infection, viral DNA can’t disrupt your DNA. That’s what the HPV vaccine achieves against the two strains responsible for  about 70% of cervical cancers. Recent high-profile people have made claims about negative effects of this vaccine, claims that have been  thoroughly debunked. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as always offers  accura…

    Authored by on February 1, 2012

  • Colon Cancer Awareness Month: Get your ass screened. We mean it.

    …. They come in three types: tubular, tubulovillous, and villous. The larger the size, the greater the cancer risk. Mine was large and on its way to becoming cancer. According to my GI doctor, I’d’ve been dead in another 5 years had I not had that colonoscopy and appropriate intervention.  In other words, if I’d waited until the recommended age for a first colon cancer screening–age 50–I’d have already been dead for s…

    Authored by on March 7, 2012

  • Is the bar high enough for screening breast ultrasounds for breast cancer?

    …ve dense breasts and lobbying to roll out all sorts of imaging studies quickly, no matter how well they have been studied, it would not be worth posting. Dense breasts are worrisome to women, especially young women (in their 40s particularly) because they have proved a risk factor for developing breast cancer. Doing ultrasound on every woman with dense breasts, though, who has no symptoms, and a normal mammogram potentially encompasses as many a…

    Authored by on September 21, 2012

  • The real scandal: science denialism at Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

    …p them. Then there are cancers that fall somewhere in between the two extremes. These are the ones most likely to be helped by screening mammography, and they’re the lives that mammography saves. How many? For women age 50 to 70, routine screening mammography decreases mortality by 15 to 20% (numbers are lower for younger women). One thousand women in their 50′s have to be screened for 10 years for a single life to be saved. So let’s recap. Getti…

    Authored by on February 11, 2012

  • Good Deeds, Good Science: Breast Cancer Research and Education

    …lified by Susan’s “Going HOME!” post. Unfortunately, Susan and Rachel are not anomalies. They are but two of the approximately 40,000 women (in US alone) projected to lose the battle in 2012.  Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 women. These odds put someone you know – your wife, mother, sister, girlfriend, aunt, daughter, friend, cousin, neighbor, co-worker – at risk. In the “Goodbye” post written by Susan Niebur’s husband Curt (Wh…

    Authored by on February 7, 2012

  • On this Father’s Day, let’s remember the allofathers, too

    …e United States have come to expect on weekends, particularly when we work salaried weekday jobs that ostensibly promise weekends off. That means that on top of the anxiety associated with stacking 20 or 30 extra hours onto a 40-hour work week to meet a tough deadline, my husband and my children’s father also feels angst about this inability to be a part of our family time. These are first-world problems, I realize, but that doesn’t m…

    Authored by on June 16, 2012

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