by Marnie | Oct 24, 2012 | Breast Cancer Surgery, Latissimus Dorsi Flap Surgery |
Deciding upon which type of reconstruction surgery to have after losing part of your breast, or all of it, or both of them, to breast cancer is often very difficult, so I decided to devote all of my blog posts this week to a discussion of the various types of...
by Marnie | Oct 23, 2012 | Breast Cancer Surgery, DIEP Flap |
Deciding upon which type of reconstruction surgery to have after losing part of your breast (or all of it) to breast cancer is often very difficult, so I decided to devote all of my blog posts this week to a discussion of the various types of reconstruction surgery...
by Marnie | Oct 22, 2012 | Breast Cancer Surgery, TRAM flap |
Deciding upon which type of reconstruction surgery to have after losing part of your breast (or all of it) to breast cancer is often very difficult, so I decided to devote all of my blog posts this week to a discussion of the various types of reconstruction surgery...
by Marnie | Oct 18, 2012 | Aromatase Inhibitors, Breast Cancer and Nutrition, Breast Cancer Risk Reduction, Vitamin D |
Image source: rgbstock.com and alex bruda Why Vitamin D Is So Important Because of the fact that women with breast cancer are generally deficient in vitamin D – and this is the time of year when we start to get deficiencies, when sunlight is less...
by Marnie | Oct 17, 2012 | Essential Oil Benefits, Keeping Abreast of the News |
More Migraines, Fewer Tumors? A 2010 research study made its way onto my desk today that I thought was worth sharing. Published in January 2010 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and titled Migraine History and Breast Cancer Risk Among Postmenopausal Women, the study...
by Marnie | Oct 16, 2012 | Breast Cancer Surgery, Lycium Barbarum |
Tips For Surgery – Useful Items to Take With You Getting ready for surgery, particularly if it’s your first time, can be nerve wracking. It is completely normal to feel anxious before surgery. Doing things like getting friends and family to help...
by Marnie | Oct 13, 2012 | Breast Cancer and Nutrition, Breast Cancer Metastasis, Medicinal Mushrooms |
Image source: stock.xchng and 13dede There is quite a buzz in the cancer community about the benefit of mushrooms for cancer patients. See my recent post Medicinal Mushrooms: Fungi That Fight Cancer Cells. Today I will share even more information on this topic, so...
by Marnie | Oct 10, 2012 | Anxiety, Breast Cancer and Sleep, Breast Cancer Risk Reduction, Essential Oil Benefits |
Image source: Michelle Meiklejohn / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Want To Sleep Better? Following on yesterday’s article about EMF radiation, I am getting quite a few inquiries from my readers saying “HELP ME SLEEP!” or “how can I sleep better?”...
by Marnie | Oct 6, 2012 | Breast Cancer and Chemotherapy, Chemosensitivity Testing |
Further to my post of August 14, 2012 about chemosensitivity testing, I found a company that does chemosensitivity testing here in the USA. The name of the company is Rational Therapeutics. On July 13, 2011, Dr Robert Nagourney wrote an article titled “Why I Do...
by Marnie | Oct 4, 2012 | Breast Cancer Action, Breast Cancer and Beauty, Breast Cancer Risk Reduction, Pinkwashing, Xenoestrogens and Estrogen Dominance |
Pinktober and Pinkwashing You know, I used to love the month of October. I loved the colors of the autumn leaves and how they crunch under your feet (well I still do, but read on), my son’s birthday falls in October, the heat of the summer is gone, Halloween...
