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December (23)
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Post Mastectomy Clothing
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Major Advances in 2012
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2011
January (30)
Poetry by Jo Shapcott
Too Much Optimism?
Depression and Cancer
New Drug from the Sea
PTSD after Breast Cancer
FIghting Spirit
Free Teleconference re Recen...
Limiting Lymphedema
Loaded Language
Vitamin Supplements
Node Negative and Micromets
National Breast Cancer Coali...
Exemestane (Aromasin) can be...
Living with Advanced Disease
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Full Body Scanners and Prost...
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DIY Gene Tests
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Positive Clinical Trials
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New Blood Test for Cancer
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February (25)
Komen and Pink and Law Suits
Returning to Work
LBBC Forums
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Long Term Impact of Breast C...
Nutritional Advice
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Worrying about Money
Implant Risks Downplayed?
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More on Lymph Nodes
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March (32)
MRI as Effective Screening?
Returning to Work
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Maine Update
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Value of Clinical Trials
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Many Tests and Clinical Tria...
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April (31)
Hypnosis
Guidelines for CAM
Evening of Gratitude
Prophylactic Bilateral Maste...
The End of Breast Cancer
Alzheimer's Disease and Canc...
Post Traumatic Growth
Talking with your Children
Get Your Body Back
Breast Cancer in Zimbabwe
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Role of the PCP during Cance...
Prophylactic Bilateral Maste...
New Survivorship Website
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Breast Cancer Genetics
Teleconferences re Survivors...
Radiation and Second Cancers
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Women with Advanced Cancer L...
Value of Fresh Foods
May (29)
Breast Cancer and Sex
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Two Stress Reduction Techniq...
Access to Medical Records
New App to Organize your Car...
Drugs and Profits
Genome for ER Positive Breas...
Blessings for your Day
Celebration of Life
AIs and Body Mass
Fatigue after Cancer
Longterm Follow Up
Unspoken Truths: An Essay
Alkaline Diets and Cancer
Chicago Event 6/4
Multivitamins and Breast Can...
Fertility after Cancer
Today: A Rare Personal Entry
Anti VEGF therapies
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Child Custody Case
Site for Young Women
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ChemoBrain or ChemoFog
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Triple Negative Update
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June (31)
My Lifeline: free website an...
FDA Avastin Hearings This We...
Free Teleconference re Fear
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Lymphedema Five Years After
Meditation for Hot Flashes
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Education and Survival
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You Look Great and Other Lie...
Custody Case Goes Viral
PARP Inhibitors
Value of Zometa
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Flaxseed Does Not Help Hot F...
Duration of Chemotherapy in ...
Aspirin and Survival
ASCO starts today
Depression and Survival in S...
Medical Marijuana
July (27)
Fat Transfer during Reconstr...
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Hormone Thwarts Early Menopa...
Herb Fails to Help Hot Flash...
Free Teleconference re Legal...
Use of Alternative Therapies
Incidence of Breast Cancer i...
Problems After Treatment
Treatment and Work (or Not)
Anxiety after Treatment
Komen and PInk (Again)
LBBC Fall Conference
Patrolling Cancer's Borderla...
New Podcasts from Cancer.Net...
Testing Doctors for People S...
Ten Good Things about Having...
The Good Short Life
More Possible Value of Aspir...
Anxierty and Depression
Short Surgery Waits Safe
Pinkwashing
Improving After Treatment Ca...
National Breast Cancer Coali...
CMF revisited
Milestones
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Beat Cancer Playlist
August (31)
Breast Reconstruction
Fighting Words
Chemo During Stage IV Cancer
Herbal Supplements and Chemo...
Soy No Help with Bone Loss, ...
Enlisting the Immune System
Sex Workshop
Genetics, Genomics, and Risk
Beauty During Cancer
Sex and Cancer
Care Package Ideas
Insomnia and Cancer
More re Alcohol Intake and B...
Vitamin D Reduces AI Pains
Teleconference: Managing Fea...
Pink Bad for Business?
Fad Foods and Breast Cancer
Music Lowers Anxiety
Hot Chemotherapy Bath
Dating after Cancer
Importance of Exercise
Terrific Fall Conference
Era of Hope Conference
A Shameful Situation
Living with Lymphedema
Tests and Procedures
Avoiding Lymphedema
Scheduling of Chemotherapy a...
Elective Mastectomies
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September (28)
Coping with Peripheral Neuro...
DES/Breast Cancer Link ?
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Obesity and Breast Cancer Li...
Timing of Chemotherapy
Issues for Survivors, Patric...
Cancer Language in the Press
Provocative Questions
Cognitive Dysfunction and AI...
Big Business of Breast Cance...
Five Years After Surgery
Talking About Your Illness
Predicting Lymphedema Risk
Breast Density
Met Breast Cancer Conference
Use it or Lose it
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After Treatment: Moving On
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Labor Day
Caring for the Neediest
Breast Implant Safety
NBCC and Project LEAD
Breast Reconstruction Resour...
October (31)
Cancer Screening
Who Most Benefits from AIs?
40 Years of Research: A Repo...
Susan Love: Wishful Thinking
Letrozole vs. Tamoxifen
Just a Nice Story
Cell Phones and Cancer
Who I am: Time to Repeat (du...
New Interesting site
Dating After Cancer
Cancer and the Environment
More (Anti) Pink
Getting Dumped after Cancer
Supplements during Treatment
Flax Seed and Breast Cancer
Aspirin and Cancer
Cancer Imaging
Lesbians and Breast Cancer
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awa...
Scars
Surgery Choices for Young Wo...
Adjuvant Chemotherapy Regime...
Radiation and Possible Lung ...
Cancer Related Fatigue
Shortages of Chemo Drugs
Fitness and Exercise
Our Maine Cottage
Breast Reconstruction
Airport Pat Downs
Seeing Red Over the Pink
31 Truths About Breast Cance...
November (30)
San Antonio Breast Conferenc...
Reporting of Clinical Trials
Exercise and Lymphedema
Care After Breast Cancer
Cancer and the Holidays
Words: "Cancer" or "Weird Ce...
Thanksgiving
Avastin and Insurance Covera...
Fatigue after Chemotherapy
Risk Factors for Lymphedema
Honey as a Memory Boost
Avastin Approval Withdrawn
Treatment and Your Heart
Chemo Brain IS Real
More Depression for Some
SUrvivor Needs
Breast Cancer Statistics
Personalized Medicine
Preventing Lymphedema
Rejoice
A Totally Different Prosthes...
Smoking and Drinking (Still)
Alcohol and DNA Damage
Alcohol and Elevated Risk
ASCO and Cancer Research
Thinking about Work
Avastin Again
Support Groups
Myths about Breast Cancer
Clinical Trials
December (32)
Meditation/Mindfulness
Cardiac Damage from Treatmen...
Progress in Genomics
Highlights from San Antonio
Oral Bone Drugs and Breast C...
AIs and Aches and Pains
Managing Early Menopause
Christmas Eve
Bioethics and Cancer
French Breast Implants
Personalized Medicine and Co...
Science and Surgical Choices
Depression and Anxiety
Holiday Event for Young Surv...
Risk of Jaw Infections with ...
Unemployment after Breast Ca...
Tamoxifen vs Letrozole
Cancer and the Environment
Adjuvant Use of Bone Drugs
Prophylactic Contralateral M...
Starch and Breast Cancer
Testing for Mutations
Disparities in Care
Your Healthcare Team
Hopeful Treatment Advances
Sexuality after Breast Cance...
Mastectomies in the News
Neuro-Cognitive Effects of T...
Survivorship Resource
Trends in Reconstruction
Relieving Hot Flashes
Breast Surgery in Advanced D...
2010
January (35)
Stress NOT Associated with B...
Moderate Drinking and Recurr...
PARP Inhibitors: Possible Go...
Karma as Balm?
Tying Scarves
Zometa and the AIs
Pink
Depression and Anxiety over ...
Node Dissection and Micromet...
More on Exercise
Benefit of Soy?
Pathways to Recovery
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Follow Up Care
Questions to Ask re Clinical...
Laugh, Laugh, Laugh
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Vit D and Aromatase Inhibito...
Art and Science and Decision...
Sharsheret: A Resource for J...
Quality Care
Over Treatment?
The Rusty Tin Lining
Do Surgeons Consult with Oth...
Program on Mammography Guide...
Single with Breast Cancer
Exercise, Tea, and Depressio...
New Exercise Program at BIDM...
Teleconference Tomorrow
Taxanes in Adjuvant Treatmen...
Depressing Exercise Report
Oops re below
Extra Benefits of Acupunctur...
Happy New Year
February (30)
YSC/LBBC Conference
Acupuncture for Hot Flashes
Mindfulness and Meditation
Nutrition Guidelines
Breast MRI and Early Detecti...
Value of Naps
Top Ten Facts
Obesity and Prognosis
The Language of Cancer
Adventures
Aspirin
Bras and Cancer
Another (Male) Perspective
How Much do Patients Underst...
How to Tell Your Children
Switching from Arimidex to F...
Chemo and Serious Cognitive ...
Teleconference re Menopausal...
Neoadjuvant Therapy for Her2...
Body Mass and Prognosis
Body Mass and Prognosis
Tamoxifen and Paxil
Insomnia and Chemotherapy
Breast MRI Guidelines
Choices for BRCA1 and BRCA2 ...
Follow Up after Treatment
Zometa and AIs
Hats
How to Help
Grouchy is OK
March (31)
Radiation after Mastectomy
Husbands and Purses
Estimate of Recurrence Risk
Different Perspectives
Religion and Coping
Seeing Things Differently
Fertility after Breast Cance...
Employment After Cancer
Stress Generation
Health Care Reform AT LAST
Questions to Ask
Acai Juice
Cancer Successes
Conference for Women with Ad...
Cancer and Language
Exercise Benefits (Again)
Choosing Your Doctors
After Cancer Short Video
Oncotype Tests Not Well Expl...
Support Groups
PTSD and Cancer
Underweight and Increased Ri...
Sex and Wellbutrin
An Anniversary
Radiation after Mastectomy
Weight Gain and Hot Flashes
Soy and Breast Cancer
Cancer and the Law: Importan...
Personalized Cancer Treatmen...
PTSD After Cancer
Practice-Changing News
April (30)
Multi vitamins and Breast Ca...
More Imaging
I'm Still Here: Stage IV 17 ...
New Chemo Combo
Fried Food for the Cure?
Prognosis for 10+ Positive N...
Progress Towards Blood Test
Understanding ER/PR Testing
Your Grandmother and Your Ri...
Coping with Tests
Cognitive Function Femara vs...
Finding a Clinical Trial
Classic Erma Bombeck
Follow Up 101: An Interview
Weight Gain in Turkey
Self-Advocacy
The Healthcare Team
Fear of Recurrence
Cancer Myths
Improving Survival
Herbal Medicines
SSRIs and Tamoxifen
Fruits, Vegetables = No Risk...
Possible Value of Bisphospho...
Value of Aspirin: IMPORTANT
Second Breast Cancer
Unrealistic Media Reports
Breast Feeding and Breast Ca...
Project LEAD in Boston
Pregnancy after Breast Cance...
May (30)
Sexuality and Cancer
Avastin Helpful in Treatment...
Shark Cartilage is No Help
Hair
Managing Neuropathy
Shifts in Standards of Care
Chemo Brain
Celebration of Life
Free Teleconference on Treat...
Value of Yoga
Twice Yearly Mammograms?
Fatigue and Radiation Therap...
Study on Neuropathic Pain
Get Out and Exercise
Friendship and Cancer
Acupuncture and Hot Flashes
Managing Stress and Anxiety
Fund Raiser and Sex Toys
Schizophrenia and Breast Can...
Drugs to Avoid with Tamoxife...
PTSD and Cancer
Organizing Your Care
The Wig and Me
Personalized Medicine
Be Part of the Cancer Suppor...
Cancer and the Environment
Progress in Cancer Treatment
Plastics, Deodorant, and Bre...
Training your Brain
Fertility after Cancer
June (28)
Exercise (Again!)
Reconstruction Options
Nutrition and the Cancer Sur...
Triple Negative Breast Cance...
Reconstruction and Lymphedem...
Mixed Success with Neuropath...
Sexuality and Intimacy
Tamoxifen and Anti-depressan...
Cardiac Damage from Treatmen...
How Many Summers?
Surgery for Lung Mets?
New Drug for Bones
Obesity and Hormone Therapy
Biology of Breast Cancer
Known Value of Support Group...
Support Groups Improve Survi...
Cancer Progress
How do you recognize bone me...
Tips for taking Xeloda
Benefits of Tai Chi
Breaking News from ASCO
Bone Health and Breast Cance...
Genetic Risk and Lifestyle
More Bilateral Mastectomies
ASCO 2010
Drugs to Avoid with Tamoxife...
Joint Pain from AIs
Family Caregiver Resources
July (30)
Two Video Links
Understanding Statistics
Reclaiming Body Image
What is Radiation Therapy?
Aspirin and Recurrence Risk
Treatment for Inflammatory B...
Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Higher Doses of Arimidex for...
PARP inhibitors
Avastin Not so Helpful
20 Possible Causes of Cancer
Fish Oil and Breast Cancer R...
Blogging
ASCO Endorses Use of AIs
Mastectomy and Neuropathic P...
Managing Fatigue
Pathology Reports
Cognitive Issues/Chemobrain
Full Node Dissection?
Fertility and Cancer Treatme...
Complementary Therapies
Resource and Information Lin...
Aspirin May Reduce Recurrenc...
Younger Women and Hormonal T...
Study Comparing CA to Doceta...
Exercise and Cognition
Returning to Work
Generic Anastrozole (Arimide...
Buffering: A Good Plan or No...
Teleconference re Holocaust ...
August (33)
Stress Reducers
Personality Does NOT Matter
Email Hoaxes
Choosing a Therapist
Misconceptions re Gene Mutat...
Research Standards: CAM vs. ...
Aspirin May Lower Recurrence...
Alcohol and Breast Cancer Ri...
Free Teleconference re Genet...
Recurrence Risk after 5 Year...
Herbs and Supplements (Again...
Fertility after Cancer
Body Image after Cancer
Cancer Myths
Online Cancer Fraud
Words to Ban from Oncology
Risk Predictor for ER Positi...
Risk Predictor for ER Positi...
Complementary Therapies
Complementary Therapies
Her2 neu Testing
Dietary Supplements
Information about Reconstruc...
Information in Legal, Financ...
Information on Insurance and...
Exercise During Treatment
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
Bathing Suit Tips
Managing Weight: Free Teleco...
CT Scans
Social Networks and Survival...
Survey re Breast Reconstruct...
Calcium Intake and Breast Ca...
September (17)
Absence and Africa
Preventive Surgery for Mutat...
Pregnancy after Breast Cance...
More on Chemobrain
Hot Flash Treatments
New Research Committee
Alcohol and Hormone Positive...
Peripheral Neuropathy
PTSD and Cancer
Take the Full Course!
Wonderful Blog about Cancer ...
Exercise and Quality of Life
Teleconference re Breast Can...
Single with Breast Cancer
Apology and a Good Excuse
Alcohol and Recurrence Risk
Evaluating Cancer Informatio...
October (33)
Mammograms
Cancer Sleeper Cells