breast cancer treatment

All cancer tumors start small and end up bigger. This is logic that is clear as day.  Tumors don't show up 3 cm across out of nowhere. A...

There is always more research going on - especially cancer research. Especially breast cancer research. I swear sometimes the world is full ...

In years gone by, doctors were regarded as gods. They knew all, were not to be questioned and patients should obey unquestioningly. Those da...

It doesn't matter how many years out it is but a visit to the oncologist always is uncomfortable. Its unsettling. Its alarming. Its dist...

Recently it was announced in a draft proposal that the UK's NHS would not cover faslodex to treat estrogen positive metastatic breast ca...

I never realized how important starting cancer treatment quickly was. I remember my surgeon telling me at one point I had plenty of time to ...

Another little bitty oopsie. Many women after a mastectomy for breast cancer get implants to make them more even again. Then there are the h...

[ A breast cancer tumor imaged with a technique that highlights aspects of its microenvironment. NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE/UNIV. OF CHICAGO ...

I often wonder in cancer treatment, which is worse - treatment or complications? I think complications win that one. To me complications mea...

As I near a decade (how the hell did that happen?) since I was diagnosed, I have noticed how much breast cancer treatment has changed in the...

(So my plan is coming together and my life goes back to reflecting on breast cancer crap.) Earlier this week, the FDA approved a new medicat...

Who knew math class would be so important later in life? Here's the problem: You get a cancer diagnosis and your doctor starts spouting ...

We hear all about good doctors and not so good ones. But every so often we hear about the one's you really do not want. Yesterday someon...

I had heard about these when I was in chemo - cooling caps to prevent hair loss . They were knew and being tested and not really available. ...

So I didn't know (or maybe I kind of knew and was pretending I didn't) that some cancer cells go hide in your body to come out later...

All of us 'lucky' people with hormone positive breast cancer, get the 'benefit' of being able to take hormone therapy or aro...

I now know many women, dozens, probably more like hundreds, who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Sadly not all are still with us. The...

Several organizations have posted their latest information on the status of breast cancer in the US in 2018. I just found this overview wit...

I constantly read articles on the advent of new cancer treatments. I think they are wonderful. But they are not always instituted. In 2014, ...

What good is a treatment if it could kill you in the end? A new study (because we all need more research) shows that more than half of breas...