It’s a Marathon

Guest Blog

Stage 4 cancer. Hope lives, even as we run the marathon.  While metastatic breast cancer can and does kill quickly, for many of us this disease is a marathon. When I was first diagnosed over six years ago with a particularly aggressive type of the disease, I had some...

Bone-only Metastasis in IBC and non-IBC Patients

General, Physician Resources

An interesting article is included below regarding bone-only metastasis in inflammatory and non-inflammatory breast cancer patients. The Clinical Breast Cancer  bi-monthly journal published this online August 15, 2014. The clinical course of bone metastasis in...

Who is Heather?

General

Rare? I am Heather The David and Heather Ryan FamilyI got the call, “…she will not last much longer, I just wanted you to know”.  The drive from Friendswood, Texas to Tuscaloosa, Alabama is long, 9+ hours.  I got there as quickly as I could, but it was too late.   I...

My Wish

General

Engrossed in an article I was writing, I looked up and said “What?” My daughter, Veronica, was standing there, laughing and repeating what I missed, rushing to speak, “1,2,3,4 make a wish! . . . 1,2,3,4 make a wish! Oh you missed it. You are supposed to make a wish...

Inflammatory Breast Cancer Course

Patient Resources

Course Overview Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare but aggressive form of breast cancer. Although it accounts for 2-6% of all breast cancers, the 5-year overall survival rate is only 40% while the 5-year overall survival rate for all types of breast cancer combined...