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Why You Need to Know Your Breast Density
Breast density is an essential facet of women’s health that often isn’t as widely understood or discussed as it should be. I have to admit, as a woman who was always health vigilant and went for regular mammograms, I was unfamiliar…
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When it Comes to Breast Cancer Survival Rates is Five Years Enough?
According to data from the Canadian Cancer Society and the American Cancer Society, the five-year breast cancer survival rate for women diagnosed with breast cancer is just around 90%. It means that of women diagnosed with breast cancer, 89% of us…
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My Journey to DIEP Flap
A guest post by Victoria McGlone One of the first things that crossed my mind as soon as I heard the dreaded four words “you have breast cancer” at the age of 37 was “I want a double mastectomy and I…
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Canada’s Task Force Disappoints Canadian Women and Experts with Refusal to Change Screening Guidelines
Last week, the Canadian Task Force on Preventative Health Care announced that it would be standing firm on its guidance that breast screening in Canada begin at age 50. In a symbolic gesture and a small win for those who vehemently…
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Types and Sub-Types of Breast Cancer
Before my diagnosis with breast cancer, the disease was for me — as it is for most people — a single thing. Very quickly after learning I had cancer, I discovered there are many types and sub-types of breast cancer, and…