you don’t come out just once. You come out to your family, your friends, your jobs, your doctors, strangers. It’s the same with cancer for me, so I may as well do it once, as publicly as I can. We all experience hard stuff. I believe in sharing it so we can learn from ea...
I was very eager to get it out of me. I was stage 2. I did it this way thinking that I did not need chemotherapy, but afterward it came back that I need chemotherapy. I am not sure what has caused the TRAM to fail; whether I am eating smaller portions than I ever have or if...
Hello. Few weeks ago I had mastectomy. Although I was terrified, procedure went well, thank God. The day when I woke up after operation I will celebrate as my new birthday. After denial stage when doctors told me that I will lose my breast due to cancer, and fear for my life, nightm...
Jolie, who lives with Hollywood star Brad Pitt, says in anarticle for the New York Timesthat her mother fought cancer for 10 years before her death. She writes: "My doctors estimated that I had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is diff...
Whole breast radiation is usually given five days a week for three to six weeks. Partial breast radiation can take one to two weeks. Increasingly, notes Mayo Clinic, doctors are recommending accelerated treatment schedules (known as hypofractionated treatment); this involves higher doses of radiation...
you don’t come out just once. You come out to your family, your friends, your jobs, your doctors, strangers. It’s the same with cancer for me, so I may as well do it once, as publicly as I can. We all experience hard stuff. I believe in sharing it so we can learn from ea...