If You Don’t Have One, then Shut the Hell Up. If it weren’t for the website from whence I borrowed the above photo, I might have lost my mind entirely over the past few months. You’ve got to love a site called Government Free VJJ. The site tagline says it all: “Dear Men in Congress: [...]
Success by association? The current issue of the British Medical Journal [BMJ], published July 28th, includes an interesting review study about screening mammography. The study, Breast Cancer Mortality and Screening Mammography, takes a little explaining. Researchers sought to determine whether the availability and widespread use of screening mammography was directly responsible for decreases in mortallity [...]
This is a long one, dear readers, so grab a cup of coffee and put your feet up. Thank you, Mrs. Ford. In 1974, when she was 56, Betty Ford’s doctor found a lump in one of her breasts during a routine physical. At the time, biopsies were not done as a separate procedure [...]
It hasn’t been a great week. There has been a confluence of events lately that has left me in tears, especially today. Today, I learned that one of my cyber-sistahs died yesterday of breast cancer, after being treated for several months for mets to the brain. Another friend, who had breast cancer a [...]
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