Did you read the recent headlines about the newly released study concluding that even after women (in the study) completed five years of hormone therapy, their recurrence risk continued for twenty years and likely beyond? The implication is that women diagnosed with early stage, hormone-positive breast cancer and who are taking hormone-blocking drugs, should strongly …
Survivorship
Breast cancer treatment’s collateral damage — let’s talk about it. Yes, let’s. This post has been sitting in my draft folder for a while. Sometimes, I hesitate to write about breast cancer treatment’s collateral damage (aka cancer crap fallout) that goes on and on and on following a cancer diagnosis. Notice I say, following a …
Seven years since my cancer diagnosis. Seven years since the day the shit hit the fan. Seven years since I started this blog. Seven years since the family and I sat around brainstorming what the heck to call it. Seven years. It’s even hard for me to believe seven years have passed. But there it …
Some things are black and white. Not much room for doubt or debate. Though not everyone agrees, which is fine, as far as I’m concerned, cancer sucks. Period. As I have mentioned many times, the great life lessons a person is supposed to garner following a cancer diagnosis escape me. I have had no epiphany. …
Does National Cancer Survivors Day Sound Too Celebratory? The first Sunday in June is designated as National Cancer Survivors Day®. I’ve never been a fan of this particular designated day. You can read why here and here. In a nutshell, it sounds too celebratory to my liking, and also because it excludes those with metastatic disease. …