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Comparing autism advocacy and the breast cancer experience
A guest blog by Christine Jenkins On May 27, 2022, I found out my breast cancer had returned. Learning to advocate for myself, after learning late in life I was autistic, has given me the strength, self-awareness, and tools to stand…
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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…