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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…
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Why I Wrote My Book Flat Please, Hold the Shame
The entire AskEllyn brand began with my book FLAT PLEASE. Here’s the story behind the story. I was shattered when I received my diagnosis of breast cancer. It was something that happened to other women, not to me. In the four…
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Flat Fashion and Icons I Admire
When I found out I would be having a mastectomy and made the decision to have an aesthetic flat closure (AFC), I surveyed my wardrobe with trepidation. How much would I still be able to wear post-surgery? What did flat fashion…
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Interested in Women’s Health and Patient Advocacy? Here are Two Books I Highly Recommend
I love to read and I’m a voracious reader. I mostly love fiction and can always get behind a good boddice ripper or beach read, I am from time to time drawn to non-fiction works to expand my rapidly shrivelling 59-year-old…