The lottery winner

From the Daily Mail.
Breast cancer survivor wins £2.5m on lottery… but insists: ‘I’d rather have kept my health’
A year ago Tracy Foster was in the grip of despair as she battled breast cancer. Now, after two operations and gruelling courses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy the killer disease is in remission.
And the divorced mother-of-two’s change in [...]

Beat the Heat

As you read this I am in Manchester Tennessee enjoying Bonnaroo.  If you look up the weather in Manchester rightnow you’ll see what has inspired this post.  Even living in North Carolina can’t prepare me for the heat because I don’t generally spend 4 days, 24 hours per day outside in June.  Another drink of [...]

Mouse cancer

I have heard all kinds of theories on what causes people to get breast cancer. Some have made sense, some have been told to me with good intentions but bad science, if any science at all. Most survivors have gone through the phase of looking at every research study and wondering if that’s why they [...]

Prophylactic Mastectomy and Inherited Breast Cancer

Hereditary Breast Cancer — A High Cost To Patient And Health Care Provider Alike

NewsRx.com April 24, 2008
Some women who carry the BRCA gene mutation, which predisposes to breast cancer, may choose to have a prophylactic mastectomy rather than undertake lifetime surveillance, a Dutch scientist will tell the 6th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-6) today (Wednesday [...]