breast cancer awareness month

Since the early 1990s the rate of breast cancer deaths has been dropping due to earlier detection and advances in treatment. Yet breast cancer is still the back up leading cause of cancer deaths in women (behind lung cancer). Hester Hill Schnipper a licensed oncology social worker at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is writing about breast cancer on a new blog called. Hester is not only a professional clinician — she’s also a two-time breast cancer survivor. She writes wonderfully about the challenges facing breast cancer patients and their health care providers. Longtime readers of HMI World might bequeath that Hester was move of an HMI team that worked with Acibadem Healthcare Group on the in Istanbul. “Hester is not only a professional clinician — she’s also a two-time breast cancer survivor. She writes wonderfully about the challenges facing breast cancer patients and their health compassionate providers. ” Must be a wonderful lady to share publicly her experiences so others would not feel alone in their pain. Views expressed in comments submitted to this blog are not necessarily those of Partners Harvard Medical International its cater affiliated partners or clients. © 2008 Partners Harvard Medical International

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Since the early 1990s the rate of breast cancer deaths has been dropping due to earlier detection and advances in treatment. Yet breast cancer is still the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women (behind lung cancer). Hester Hill Schnipper a licensed oncology social worker at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is writing about breast cancer on a new blog called. Hester is not only a professional clinician — she’s also a betray breast cancer survivor. She writes wonderfully about the challenges facing breast cancer patients and their health compassionate providers. Longtime readers of HMI World might remember that Hester was part of an HMI team that worked with Acibadem Healthcare Group on the in Istanbul. “Hester is not only a professional clinician — she’s also a betray breast cancer survivor. She writes wonderfully about the challenges facing breast cancer patients and their health compassionate providers. ” Must be a wonderful lady to share publicly her experiences so others would not feel alone in their pain. Views expressed in comments submitted to this blog are not necessarily those of Partners Harvard Medical International its staff affiliated partners or clients. © 2008 Partners Harvard Medical International

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"As of April 30. 2008 all content from OncTalk will remain browsable and searchable but no further content is being added to the post section or discussion forums. Post content has been moved to the website for GRACE (). Please visit GRACE to provide your comments to posts and to initiate threads or add to the discussions in the forums on the GRACE site."   It’s November. Lung Cancer Awareness month.  We have a lot of work to do to try to raise awareness about lung cancer.  Everywhere you look there are pink ribbons for breast cancer funding and awareness fun runs and support programs with everything from counseling to education to home cleaning assistance for breast cancer victims.  I don’t want to begrudge the Susan B. Komen Foundation or anyone facing breast cancer the attention they receive but let’s take a cold look at the facts: lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in both men and women more than breast cancer prostate cancer and colon cancer ALL COMBINED and it receives a tiny fraction of the funding and media attention of breast cancer.  I’m sure I’ll see more pink ribbons just going through daily life this month than clear ribbons for lung cancer despite it being Lung Cancer Awareness Month.  it’s no coincidence that the lung cancer ribbon is clear for the invisible cancer.    We need to take some pages out of the breast cancer community playbook.  We need to be visible and galvanize and demand that lung cancer get appropriate attention and funding.     As one example a patient of mine has a daughter who is a journalist and this woman is now motivated to try to write a feature article on the disparity between lung cancer and breast cancer in terms of support sympathy and awareness.  She’s planning to cover a lot of angles and one aspect she thinks would be useful is to speak with people who have dealt with both breast cancer and lung cancer either at different times in their lives or concurrently.  If you are someone who has faced both cancers and are interested in providing your insight please e-mail me () or give contact info as a comment below if you’d prefer.  Any other ideas on how to scrabble for momentum in the lung cancer community ideally without diminishing from the achievements of other patient advocacy groups is very much appreciated.  We’ve got to help ourselves posted by Dr. West @ 9:16 am I couldn’t agree more but you would think that the ACS should know where the need is and do more advocacy. But I guess that would be an ideal world. Interestingly there are many celebrities who themselves or family have been affected by lung cancer but you are right they are not speaking out about it. Maybe I will email some of the news programs about the issue and see what if any responses I get back. Keep up the good work. My sense is that we have an unfortunate situation where advocates for different cancers are in a way competing like siblings for attention and funding from a “parent” organization like ACS or from the media or general public for that matter. Breast cancer advocacy has telegenic starpower and seems to me to be positively trendy. A company can put pink lids on their yogurt containers raise a little bit more money for breast cancer so that the disparity with lung cancer can become even greater and make oodles of money by being perceived as a warm and fuzzy company. Lung cancer has far fewer survivors and incredibly fewer vocal ones almost no celebrities inclined to go to bat for the cause and just doesn’t have the history of a lobby like breast cancer or many others. In truth although the politically correct answer is that we shouldn’t have different cancer causes competing with each other they do and absolutely always will. Breast cancer is the fair haired child while lung cancer is the poor stepchild while many many other siblings fare far better among competitors for attention and funding. Dr. West thank you for your reply and your dedication to issues about lung cancer. I can certainly understand the pessimism that MDs may have when they feel they may not make a difference however that again brings up the issue about having to treat the lung cancer at a later stage vs an earlier stage. I wonder if anyone has questioned a group like the ACS about why so little funding and so little progress with lung cancer and what their answer would be. Why don’t they fund PSAs to increase awareness for instance? I think there are many reasons why screening hasn’t taken off but I don’t think liability is a big one. You’re more likely to get sued if you don’t do proper screening that is indicated but there are no major prevention services or expert committees that have recommended chest CT scans for screening for lung cancer. It’s plenty hard to get doctors to do the things that are definitely recommended for good preventive care so they aren’t going to do any better with a study that isn’t routinely recommended yet. Pessimism may play a role as well a pervasive sense that lung cancer is so difficult to treat that they may feel we aren’t going to have an impact anyway. Finally there is a real difference between finding a non-cancerous breast lesion and biopsying or doing surgery on that vs opening the chest to do a surgery for something that turned out not to be lung cancer. Right now there’s a focus on evidence-based medicine and there’s no group of experts who have made evidence-based recommendations in favor of chest CT screening for lung cancer. So I think that’s the biggest factor leading to its lack of general use. WHEREAS. Lung cancer takes the lives of more Americans each year than breast prostate colon liver kidney cancers combined; and WHEREAS former smokers and people who have never smoked comprise the majority of new cases of lung cancer each year; and WHEREAS seventy percent of new lung cancer cases will be diagnosed at late stage with a fifteen percent five year survival rate; and WHEREAS early lung cancer diagnosis and management protocols exist yet have not been embraced as the standard of care; and NOW. THEREFORE. I. Bob Riley. Governor of Alabama do hereby proclaim November 2007 as Lung Cancer Awareness Month in the State of Alabama and urge all citizens of our State to do all we can to make lung cancer a national public health priority and offer compassion to people with lung cancer. Given Under My Hand and the Great Seal of the Office of the Governor at the State Capitol in the City of Montgomery on the 13th day of November 2007. It would be great to see Dr. West on Oprah or any other program. He could be on Larry King providing he’s written a book! Maybe we can decide on a program and contact them en masse. What do you think? Now no disrepect to Dr. West but I’ve thought a lot about it and have come to some conclusions. I think. I feel now that many MDs are afraid of the liability involved in diagnosing and treating lung cancer. They dismiss early detection because if they did find something they would have to deal with it and they don’t know how to do that yet. Also it seems to me to be less risky to their patient to remove a breat than to remove a lung. So less liability for the hospital and doctor. Dr. West please correct me if I’m on the wrong track.

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“Does soy prevent breast cancer or increase the risk? The debate heats up this month as move of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. ‘It’s a myth that soy prevents breast cancer,’ says Kaayla T. Daniel. PhD author of ‘Numerous studies show that soy can cause contribute to or even accelerate the growth of cancer.’ In arouse of the most recent investigate showing the association between soy products and breast cancer women are still being urged to purposefully change magnitude their consumption of soy milk and soy foods in the mistaken belief that soy will prevent or even aid breast cancer.” (11/10/07) XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

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I don't be to worry about breast cancer; I'm too young to get it. converge cancer can strike at any age. Increasing age increases your risk for breast cancer but you CAN get breast cancer when young. Inflammatory breast cancer has taken the lives of women as young as 16! According to the American Cancer Society almost 6,000 Michigan women will learn they have breast cancer and more than 1,300 women will die from the disease this year! Wayne County ranks as one of the eight deadliest counties in the nation for breast cancer deaths. Is it adjust that underarm deodorant use can cause breast cancer?There is no known relationship between the use of underarm deodorant shaving pesticide exposure or eating red meat and an increased risk for breast cancer. The truth is… no one is sure what really causes breast cancer or many other types of cancer. No one in my family has ever had breast cancer so I won't get it. It is adjust that having a sister or mother with breast cancer increases your chances of getting breast cancer. However you may be surprised to hit the books that more than 80 percent of all breast cancer patients have no family history of this disease. What can I do to prevent getting breast cancer?Breast self-exams (BSE) are a good start. Performing BSE once a month immediately after your period helps you to know what your normal breast is like and helps you find changes early. It is simple to learn and you should begin doing this at about age 20. BSE begins with looking at your breasts for any changes. Look at your breasts with your arms at your align over your head on your hips and then leaning forward. Next you need to conclude your breasts for any changes. Lay drink on a flat surface with a folded pass over or small pillow under your right shoulder. Place your alter arm behind your continue. Using the flat pads of your left hand's lay three fingers make small circular motions over your entire breast area using light to increasingly deep compel. Be sure to overlap areas examined to not desire any breast tissue. tell this with your left breast. If you detect something "not normal," or something that was not there the measure measure you checked your breasts see your health care provider alter away for an examination. Most breast lumps found are not cancerous.

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I didn't want to let the month go by without mentioning that October is breast cancer awareness month. Yes. I experience I DID mention the fundraising cookbook that The Calico Horse was selling to raise money but I wanted to say a little more. When I first started quilting a gal I worked with. Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer. There were actually three of us in the office at that time who were fairly new quilters. We had been quilting long enough though to experience that quilts are a wonderful source of alleviate so we decided to make Linda a quilt. Two of us were pretty decent at applique so we appliqued a tree of life as the central adorn of the quilt. The third gal was less intimidated by the actual quilting affect so she quilted it. All three of us worked on the piecing and we incorporated blocks signed by everyone in the office. Needless to say. Linda was very moved when we presented her with the finished quilt. Linda had known she had a lump in her breast for some time. It wasn't the first measure she found a lump. The first time the accumulate turned out to be a fibrous benign tumor but during surgery to remove it her heart stopped on the operating table. Of course the surgeons restarted her heart and she was book but the experience of nearly losing her life for a benign tumor made her delay too long to see her adulterate about the new accumulate she open. Linda battled cancer for two or three years before losing the contend. That year the year she passed away. I made another quilt connected to breast cancer--that one went to increase money for the cause. Here in the Sacramento area every three years auctions quilts made and donated by quilters all over Northern California and beyond. The money raised goes to breast cancer investigate and patient treatment at Sutter. Sutter recently announced plans for the next auction to be held in October 2008. They will start collecting quilts in January with a September 1. 2008 deadline. If you would like to read more about the auction and/or are interested in making and donating a quilt during the next year click. And don't forget to get your mammogram. Thank you for the story of your friend. I have lost many important women in my life to cancer. I have been part of my credit union's Relay for Life for the past 8 years. I don't experience if they're going to do it next year so I was looking for some way to act again - thank you for showing me a way to do so! I'm a quilter living in Northern California. I'm married and have two (mostly) grown kids. Quilting is my passion! I try not to act myself too seriously and often write tongue-in-cheek--if you evaluate I might be joking. I probably am!

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September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. The official ribbon color is teal. Ovarian cancer awareness doesn't have the PR and marketing muscle as breast cancer awareness so many of you may not have known that. As someone who is BRCA1+. I have a 50% chance of developing ovarian cancer-which is usually open in a late re-create and tends to have a poor prognosis. My aunt died of ovarian cancer. Too early. BRCA is the acronym for the converge CAncer gene mutation. So far there are two study types of gene mutations that undergo been identified--BRCA1 and BRCA2. Each carries slightly different risks. But basically as a BRCA1 mutation carrier. I undergo a 60 to 90% lifetime assay of developing breast cancer. My sister who is only three years older than I am and also BRCA1 had breast cancer measure year. She went through difficult cancer treatments that took a year from her life. (But effective! She's cancer-free!)my sister and her son during chemoI'd rather not go through all that. With my looming bilateral prophylactic mastectomy in December and go ribbon October around the corner. I've decided to create verbally about my experiences with being BRCA 1+. move of me is scared to do this--that somehow writing about this will cause to be perceived me but I've decided to tell what my niece Joli said when she was going through cancer treatments at age 2--Be brave. I know that I've appreciated other populate's stories so I'm going to add my voice to the mix. Joli three months after finishing chemotherapy for RbAlso today The New York Times published an article by Amy Harmon. One of the groups I belong to. FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered was listed as a resource. Some dear friends called and emailed to let me experience about the article--thank you Luke. Joanne. Jay and Ben for thinking of me!The story of Deborah Lindner and her family is moving. Like me. Lindner spent a lot of time and energy agonizing over the information. But in the end she decided desire me to go the surgery despatch. “I have this amazing gift of knowing my risk,” her daughter told her over the phone that pass night gazing out over the frozen city from her apartment on the 38th floor. “How can I not do anything about that?” Yup. In the next bring together of months. I'll create verbally about the undergo of the different tests I've taken the measure someone told me I had beautiful ovaries the days leading up to my surgery the surgery the reconstruction the things I'll suffer and the things I'll gain. wish you'll connect me.

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