Thank you for reading part one. If you shared about your diagnosis day, thank you. Below, I’m sharing part two about the day I first heard the words, you have cancer, and about my first meeting with oncologist #1. Note: This post is a slightly edited excerpt from my memoir, Cancer Was Not a Gift & …
Hereditary cancer
Cancer & the Domino Effect A cancer diagnosis sets off a domino effect like none other. In my case (if I don’t count my mother’s diagnosis), the first domino toppled on Easter 2010. My cancer domino effect was set in motion. Easter was when the chest pain started. Chest pain led to wait and see. …
Gene patenting is in the news once again. This issue isn’t going away any time soon. In my opinion, this debate boils down to one simple question. Should one company, in this case, Myriad Genetics, be allowed to patent human genes when lives are at stake? It seems as if there is a simple answer here …
I read somewhere (unfortunately, I threw out the magazine where I read this in one of my rare cleaning-out moments of the New Year) that a typical cancer diagnosis eats up about a year of a person’s life by the time all is said and done. Really? Is that all? What is a typical cancer …
This post tells the story about the day I found out I am BRCA2 positive. When you think about the major tests you’ve taken in your life, which ones come to mind? Is it your driver’s license test(s), your ACT/SAT tests, a big test you aced, or failed, in high school or college? Or is …