by Marnie | Sep 3, 2012 | Coping, Time Managing Tips |
Time Managing Tips When You’re Going Through Breast Cancer One of the things that people who are going through breast cancer really have problems with is time management. Take a normally busy life and turn it upside down with trips to the doctor, trips to the...
by Marnie | Aug 24, 2012 | Brachytherapy and IORT, Breast Cancer and Radiation, Essential Oil Benefits |
I recently discovered that there are two new-ish therapies available as breast cancer treatments that were not available when I had breast cancer in 2004, known as brachytherapy and intra-operative radiation therapy, or IORT. They are interesting, but do not come...
by Marnie | Aug 22, 2012 | Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Found a Breast Lump?, Types of Breast Cancer |
The Difference Between DCIS, LCIS, ILC, IBC, Paget’s Disease & Phyllodes Tumors Some of my subscribers have voiced a little confusion in past weeks over the various types of breast cancer and exactly how they differ, prompting me to write this article and...
by Marnie | Aug 15, 2012 | Breast Cancer and Chemotherapy, Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Breast Cancer Metastasis, Keeping Abreast of the News |
In June of this year, the results of a new study were released by Duke Cancer Institute for a breast cancer drug known as T-DM1 which is made by Genentech, a unit of Roche, who sponsored the trial. I didn’t write an article about it at the time because I wanted...
by Marnie | Aug 14, 2012 | Breast Cancer and Chemotherapy, Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Chemosensitivity Testing, Uncategorized |
Here in America, if you are contemplating chemotherapy, you may or may not be offered the chemosensitivity test. In Germany, chemosensitivity tests are routinely conducted in order to determine which chemotherapy drugs should be utilized for a specific cancer patient....
