Summertime at BCC…
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It’s been a hectic, productive summer for the Breast Cancer Consortium. We migrated the BCC website to a faster and more reliable webhost that will also give us additional e-mail and e-commerce options as we continue to build the site. We planned two research and development projects — one to expand our Beyond Awareness materials, the other to develop evidence-based information for young women with breast cancer. We submitted grant proposals to fund these projects, and hope we’re in the running.
This issue of the BCCQ is packed.
We share Lani Horn’s review in Time of the cancer film The Fault in Our Stars and Grazia de Michele’s review of Merril Smith’s edited volume, the Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast. Ellen Leopold discusses the history of writing about breast cancer and the emergence of a new type of cancer chronicle. We publish an excerpt from Eva Saulitis’s moving essay from Orion Magazine about living with metastatic breast cancer, Wild Darkness.
I published two pieces on Psychology Today, one on Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (September) and the other about another fiery debate about breast cancer treatment, Decision-Making in the Midsty of Medical Un/Certainty. Annette Madlock Gatison shares insights and information about hereditary cancer risk. Jess Werder updates us on recent research about BPA exposure and the first known molecule besides estrogen found to promote growth of Estrogen Receptor Positive (ER+) breast cancers.
We feature three articles on breast cancer internationally: the state of screening mammography in Germany by Astrid Eich-Krohm; Ana Porroche-Escudero’s research on Spanish women’s experiences of breast cancer; and a comparison of breast cancer advocacy in the United States and Poland by me and Edyta Zierkiewicz.
Please visit the BCC Website for book reviews, research briefs, articles, and other resources. Browse the News & Views archive for insights, news items, and perspectives on current issues in breast cancer, health, and medicine such as the “Ice Bucket Challenge” and new concerns about the overuse of celebrity status to spread misinformation about breast cancer.
Thank you for reading, and for your continued support! Please forward the BCCQ to colleagues and friends who would be interested in our work. Email me at gayle.sulik@breastcancerconsortium.net to share your news, get information, or set up your own Beyond Awareness initiatives. And keep working to change the breast cancer paradigm.
Sincerely,
Gayle A. Sulik, PhD (founder and executive director)
