I attended this year’s Susan G Komen for the Cure®, Breast Cancer Issues conference in Portland, Oregon. This conference addressed risk reduction, treatment options and survivorship. It was a great, well organized, and well attended conference. The 3 sessions had 5 lectures to chose, all very interesting, resulting in a difficult choice. Luckily the notes…
DetailsIt is so easy to say to some one “How are you” and to answer, “Well, How about you?”This conversational banality does not fare well with doctors or as a patient. If you don’t feel well and are ill, it is an art to describe your symptoms intelligently. Most of us don’t have experience in…
DetailsA new word in the lexicon of breast cancer and ovarian cancer is “Previvor”. A previvor is a person who does not have cancer yet, but is at a higher, elevated risk to get cancer. Previvors are demonstrated in those women who test positive for the BRCA gene mutation. BRCA gene mutation means higher…
DetailsHave you been approached by your neighbor Girl Scout yet? Have you seen the Girl Scouts out side your grocery store? Do the words ‘Thin Mints’ bring a desire to buy for you? It is Girl Scout Cookie Season, 2009. I have my money ready. Prepare yourself for the impact of a down economy…
DetailsMy menopausal eyes are now 100% in corrective lenses With Bifocals!My eyes are too dry to wear my contacts. They stick to my eyeballs and no amount of drops is helping me get them out easily. I get very anxious when I can not remove my contact lenses. I am frustrated with having to whip…
DetailsIs it the new administration? Is it the poor economy and unemployment increases? What ever it is, volunteerism is a great thing to do. If you feel you have more time on your hands than usual and want to get involved there are a slew of agencies ready to use your skills. Don’t just think…
DetailsNew analysis from this 5 year old study is making news according to the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. http://www.sabcs.org/. Taking HRT, estrogen and progesterone pills, increases the chance of breast cancer. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/whi/ The good news of the analysis is that if you stop taking HRT, your chance for breast cancer decreases!So like life, no…
DetailsAs we age or watch our parents age, various subjects come to mind. One such thought is becoming an organ donor? I know it sounds morbid and may have some religious barriers to overcome, but read on. Last year a friend’s adult nephew had a heart transplant. While recouping he met a woman who also…
DetailsEating cruciferous vegetables, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower can help protect women against breast cancer. UCSB professors, Wilson, Jordan and Azarenko have shown “how the healing powers of these vegetables work at the cellular level”. http://www.ucsb.edu/. Their paper was published in the December Journal of Carcinogenesis. http://www.carcinogenesis.com/. So much has already been written about the virtues…
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