Support for those diagnosed with breast cancer
Breast cancer knowledge, wisdom and advice by survivors for survivors
Support for those diagnosed with breast cancer
Breast cancer knowledge, wisdom and advice by survivors for survivors
We like to say in cancerland that it is the shittiest club with the best of members. You do meet some tremendous humans through this experience. However, the hard part in all of this is that it’s cancer after all. And sometimes people die. This was one of these weeks. Today’s blog is about the …
I had four rounds of chemotherapy over a 12-week timeframe as part of my breast cancer treatment plan. Like Catherine, the Princess of Wales, it was deemed to be preventative. After surgery, pathology showed that the cancer had snuck into two of my left side sentinel nodes and showed signs it was on the move …
As part of my treatment for breast cancer I had 15 rounds of radiation, administered daily. It was the third and final leg of my cancer treatment plan, which also included a double mastectomy surgery and 12 weeks of chemotherapy. I saw a line recently that referred to radiation as the crumb catcher of cancer …