The Empty Cup Runneth Over

The Stupid Cancer Blog posts some great stuff but I don’t know how many people read it so I will occasionally link to the articles from their site.
Having survived a July, 2000 diagnosis of a stage I, left multi-focal invasive breast cancer, Cindy Papale decided to embark on writing a book to educate young women [...]

Joe Biden and breast cancer

I’ve been doing some reading about Joe Biden because to be honest, I didn’t know too much about him. Turns out that he authored the Violence Against Women Act and has a strong  background in breast cancer.

A lesson to learn

There was research released last week that got headlines:
Women who have a positive outlook may decrease their chances of developing breast cancer.
If you have not had breast cancer, or another cancer for that matter you could certainly be excused for thinking that this is fantastic news. I mean really, you’re a happy person, [...]

Breast cancer research - Radiation

Radiation
Patients with a rare type of breast cancer may benefit from receiving radiation therapy in addition to surgery to prevent recurrence, according to a study in the July issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.  (more…)

Mayo clinic website

I’ve added www.Mayoclinic.com to the resource section of the blogroll.
This is a really good site, clearly written for any variety of illness, diagnoses, etc.  The find it fast section is particularly helpful.

Cheap drug hope for breast cancer

Via the BBC: /news.bbc.co.uk
A combination of two inexpensive existing drugs may offer a new way to treat breast cancer, according to UK and Finnish researchers.

The common chemotherapy drug and a brittle bone medicine almost completely stopped the growth of tumours in mice.
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute said the combination cost a twentieth of [...]

Clomid

Although there is no research that I have seen that links fertility treatments involving hormones to breast cancer, many of the young women that I have spoken to (including myself) suspect that our Clomid use may have contributed to our cancer. Now there is research that shows that the drug is no more effective in [...]

Christina Applegate news

From ABC news at www.abcnews.go.com
A month after being diagnosed with breast cancer, actress Christina Applegate, 36, is “100 percent” cancer-free, she told “Good Morning America’s” Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview
“I’m clear. Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean,” the star of ABC TV’s “Samantha Who?” said. “It did not spread — they got everything out, [...]

The journal DUH!

My husband and I will occasionally steal this line from an old Saturday Night Live sketch.  “This month in the journal DUH! researchers have reported….”  Well this one seems like it is definitely from that journal.  Not to mention that a quarter of a million people living with anything should get things moving. Approximately 25 [...]

Help a stranger

If you’ve had cancer than you know this feeling.  You’re going about another regular day and then SLAM!     Cancer right in your face.  It kicks the crap out of you.
My friend Dorothy has been fighting breast cancer on and off for four years now. She was initially diagnosed and completed her treatment and then, while [...]