If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know how much I support research efforts regarding all things cancer related. Answers will only come through research. I also support small-scale research efforts whenever I can such as the one I’m about to tell you about. Rebecca Hogue is conducting a study to determine …
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I am pleased to feature a guest post written by Kim Pelak, Ph.D. Dr. Pelak is an old friend of dear daughter’s. Dear daughter and I have known Kim since she was in fourth grade (yours truly was one of her Girl Scout leaders) and even back then she was interested in genetics. We all …
In my previous post, I tried to navigate my way through the topic of mammography and the debate surrounding it by sharing some of my personal experience with mammography, an anecdotal account. Though anecdotal accounts are interesting and perhaps even useful, they are not based on scientific evidence or scientific anything.
Recently I was contacted by a young woman, a doctoral candidate in health communication at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She asked me to assist her in finding participants for her research project which is focusing on breast cancer survivorship and sexual health. How could I say no?
Remembering loved ones who have died always matters. Marking time since they’ve been gone matters too, at least it does to me. I believe doing so honors them. On March 6, 2008 my mother died from metastatic breast cancer. It’s now been six years. Today, and every day, I remember. Today, once again, I “mark …