It’s with pleasure I share the next #MetsMonday Featured Post, “Dear Breast Cancer ‘Survivor’”, by Margaret Young. There has been continuing discussion of late in the breast cancer blogosphere and on social media about the divisions between early stagers and those with stage 4 disease. Divisions are unavoidable, I suppose. Nonetheless, this particular one I’ve …
Cancer
How much damage has been done “trying to make ugly pretty” during Breast Cancer Awareness Month over the past 30+ years? Here we are heading into yet another Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It sure seems to roll around fast, right? Advocacy work of many through the years has brought about changes to BCAM, or I’d …
Many people, maybe even most, have never heard of Lynch syndrome. Before being thrust into the world of hereditary cancer, I had not. September 26 – October 2, 2021 is National Hereditary Cancer Week. It used to be called National Hereditary Breast & Ovarian Cancer Week or HBOC Week, which honestly, always prompted my brain …
Will you feel better after stopping your aromatase inhibitor medication and if so, when? I mean, is that a loaded question or what? Please remember this blog is never a place to get medical advice. That’s what your care team is for. It is a place to learn, discuss and share experiences and information. You …
Reentry, back to normal, new normal. Where have we heard this sort of terminology before? All this “back to normal, new normal” talk is yet another parallel many of us have noted between the pandemic and cancer worlds. There have been a lot of parallels. I mean, a lot! This does not mean the experiences …