Normally poetry is not my preferred method of expressing myself, but this slam-poetry style post still runs through my head whenever I, or anyone I know, is subjected to a public reminder that we are not safe.Street harassmentis a pernicious problem for people who do not identify as mascul...
“Breast cancer has impacted my family since before I was born - my great grandmother, grandmother and mother all passed away from breast cancer. My mother lost her battle at only 42, when I was only 21-years old,” said Ashley Dedmon, a patient advocate for Myriad’s MyRisk with Risk...
We know the mammogram is the gold standard when it comes to finding breast cancer early. But what can we do in our daily lives to lower our risk? Obesity and alcohol can change risk factor for breast cancer Obesity and alcohol are two of the big risk factors for breast cancer that ...
she feels like her naturally energetic self again. “Being so sick, not being able to be the active, motivated, outspoken person that I am, had made me lose all will to live. If I had listened to the specialists I was seeing and done nothing about my implants, I know I wouldn’t ...
Nearly all had a second mammogram, called a diagnostic mammogram, after the screening scan. From there, many went on to have additional scans and even biopsies to remove a bit of tissue for examination to determine if they had cancer. Those who went on to have a biopsy paid the ...
This helped the researchers to identify how the machine was representing various features — as if they were asking a hypothetical cancer-spotting neural network, 'What part of this mammogram have you decided is a marker of cancer risk?”
While raising three teenagers, and after having a routine mammogram, I learned that I had an early-stage form of breast cancer called DCIS. I was given the option to receive radiation, which would result in a severely deformed breast, or to have a mastectomy. I chose the latter. I though...