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Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Should Include A Mammogram
Improving their health is at or near the top of most people’s lists of New Year’s resolutions. We vow to exercise more, eat or drink less, or all of the above. One of the best things we can do for...
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Zero Is Not Nothing: Don’t Apologize for DCIS
If there’s one thing women are really good at, it’s apologizing. I think some of it is simply expressing empathy, as in “I’m sorry you’re having a bad day at work.” But ever since I was diagnosed with...
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Do Patient Empowerment & Squeamishness Mix?
Patient empowerment is all the rage lately. While I distrust the way the “e” word sometimes verges on ideology, I’m all for learning what’s happening when we get that front row seat to medicine thanks...
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Finding Your Stillness
When you’re first diagnosed with breast cancer, your mind starts spinning like a caffeinated hamster on a wheel. When I was trying to decide between a mastectomy and radiation for my ductal carcinoma...
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Breast Cancer Is Not Just About You
In honor of last night’s Twitter #bcsm chat, which focused on how cancer affects caregivers/family members, I’m rerunning a post I originally ran last year. If you’re on Twitter and haven’t checked out...
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3 Words to Banish: Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
2011 was full of news on the breast cancer front. One item that resonated with me was discussion of a new gene test that could pinpoint which women would be most likely to benefit from radiation for...
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Do Patient Empowerment & Squeamishness Mix?
This post originally ran a year ago. I dusted it off because I was looking up medical terms online last night and encountered some photos that brought the old squeamishness back. -Jackie Patient...
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Reverting to Form
I’m a fraud. Well, not in the sense of identity theft or anything like that. But for the past several months I’ve been worried that something’s wrong with me and I haven’t shared it with this wonderful...
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Residency
I’m starting my first day of residency for an MFA in poetry writing through the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and it’s all breast cancer’s fault. I guess I should explain. I started pursuing my...
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Should We Rename DCIS?
Ductal carcinoma in situ was all over the news this week, after the Journal of the American Medical Association published “Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment in Cancer, An Opportunity for Improvement.”...
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