It’s A Cancer Thing!

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Holiday gatherings can sometimes be difficult when you are ill, but not looking ill, it can be really confusing to family and friends. It’s a Cancer thing!  In a support group that I moderate, many of the ladies found Christmas gatherings difficult, so I shared...

Trying to feel “normal”

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F.D.A. Approves a New Drug for Advanced Breast Cancer

Patient Resources

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new type of drug that combines the widely used breast cancer medicine Herceptin with a powerful toxin to more effectively kill cancer cells while potentially reducing side effects.  The drug, which will be called Kadcyla but...

Professional Oncology Education with Naoto Ueno, MD

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Naoto Ueno, MD., is Professor and Executive Director of Morgan Welch Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Program and Clinic. He has assembled a series of professional education programs to share with us some of the latest information of this unique and complex...

The Other Side of the Ribbon

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  On this date, five years ago, I was told “Mrs. Arnold, we are sorry but it is most likely too late.”  This came after four months of hearing “Mrs. Arnold, there is nothing seriously wrong”.  What a jump, a mind stretching leap from “not to worry”, to “oh my,...