Breast cancer support groups can provide a safe, judgment-free community for patients and survivors to connect with others. Here's how to find yours.
BCSM's founders say they would love to help other patients start or expand similar communities. Patients with very aggressive kinds of cancer, such as ovarian or brain tumors, often aren't healthy enough to form the sorts of advocacy groups that exist in breast cancer, Staley says. Often, ...
Seeking Support on Facebook: A Content Analysis of Breast Cancer Groups Social network sites have been growing in popularity across broad segments of Internet users, and are a convenient means to exchange information and suppor... JL Bender,MC Jimenez-Marroquin,AR Jadad - 《Journal of Medical ...
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Some people with cancer benefit from taking anxiety medication alone or along with therapy. This type of medicine can ease fear, muscle tightness, trouble sleeping, and other symptoms. Certain antidepressants can help treat anxiety disorders, too. If you’re taking the hormonal therapy tamoxifen as...
Using a newly developed self-administered questionnaire it was examined whether breast cancer patients involved in self-help groups differ from non-members with respect to their level of knowledge on disease, prevention and after-care. Moreover we considered the influence of age and education on ...
However, systematic and routine breast self-examinations have not been shown to help find early breast cancer any better than general familiarity with one’s breasts. Many doctors now make the more general recommendation that women pay attention to their breasts and report any changes in their ...
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Although treatments for breast cancer have come a long way over the past few generations, researchers are still puzzling over some tough questions.
Breast cancer (BC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in women under the age of 40 years worldwide. In addition, the incidence of breast cancer in young women (BCYW) has been rising. Young women are not the focus of screening programs an