I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started this post, deleted it, re-started it, pondered over whether I should publish it or not, and then pondered some more about whether it’s appropriate for October and so on. In other words, I’ve over-thought it. A lot. Finally, I said to myself, just publish the darn …
Advocacy
I am excited to share a guest post for National Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) Week from my friend and fellow advocate, Amy Byer Shainman. Some of you are familiar with Amy’s tremendous advocacy work and some of you are just learning about it today. Today is National Previvor Day, so it the perfect …
PSA time! Did you know your skin is your body’s largest organ? May is Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month. If you think skin cancer isn’t a big deal, think again. Speaking from experience here. Yep. Another cancer. Another specialist. Another scar. NOTE: Since this post was published, I’ve been diagnosed with my second skin …
A series my friend the Cancer Curmudgeon wrote titled, “The Disease Olympics,” gave me the nudge I needed to finish writing this post. Check out Part 1 of her series and then follow the links to Parts 2 and 3. All are well worth a read. I’ve been sitting on my thoughts for this post …
When I read that headline (title of this post) recently, I thought, really? What planet was that clinical trial done on? As I thought more about the content of the article (because you cannot go by headlines, as we all know), I decided I needed to write a “rebuttal” of sorts. Of course, my response here isn’t …