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Navigating Weight Loss and a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Guest blog by Jenny Borgfjord Being a Loser Ain’t All Bad When I first embarked on my weight loss journey with the Livy Method on April 24, 2023, I had no idea how much it would transform my life during one…
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Hope and Answers for Women Facing Menopause After Cancer
Some of us never have the opportunity to enter menopause naturally. For young women like Dani Binnington, diagnosed with breast cancer, menopause is an immediate thing. Thrust upon them as a result of surgery, cancer treatments and risk reduction therapies. Dani…
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Why I Chose a Double Mastectomy and Why Research Can Work Against Us
One breast or two? New research coming out of Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital Research and Innovation Institute, challenges the perceived benefits of bilateral (double) mastectomy for patients with unilateral breast cancer. The research, published in JAMA Oncology, followed 108,084 breast cancer…
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We’re Flat. Not Crazy.
I was fortunate on my journey to flat. I had a supportive surgeon. A supportive family and friends group who understood it was my decision and my body. But today, I am incensed after reading a post by a woman on…
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Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Surgery, Breast cancer treatment, Patient Advocacy, Supporting a loved one
I’m a First Nations Woman with Breast Cancer. I Believe There is a Place for all Forms of Medicine
Guest post by Sharon Laronde I am First Nations Anishinaabe. I belong to the Nipissing First Nations in North Bay, Canada. I’m Ojibwe on my mom’s side and Algonquin Mohawk on my dad’s side, so a bit of a mix. I’m…
