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“Why we won’t be posting no makeup selfies for cancer awareness” by two women in Brighton, UK, Don’t Hold Your Tongue blog. This week hundreds of thousands of women have posted pictures of themselves with no makeup on the internet, to raise awareness of cancer and raise money for cancer charities. So far over £2million . . . → Read More: Why we won’t be posting no makeup selfies for cancer awareness
“What have we learned about Metastatic Breast Cancer, Charlie Brown?” by Katherine O’Brien, I Hate Breast Cancer Blog. “I am coming up on my fifth year of living with metastatic breast cancer. I am fortunate–I started with a low volume of bone mets and five years later my disease has remained fairly indolent. Not everyone . . . → Read More: What have we learned about Metastatic Breast Cancer, Charlie Brown?
“No-makeup selfies on Facebook won’t beat cancer alone” by Sali Hughes, The Guardian. About 48 hours ago, a number of self-portraits appeared on my Facebook feed. Each was of a woman ostensibly wearing no makeup, with the hashtag #beatcancer (not breast cancer, not ovarian or prostate or bone or lymph – just “cancer”). Nothing else. . . . → Read More: No-makeup selfies on Facebook won’t beat cancer alone
“Living With Cancer: The Cost of Trials,” by Susan Gubar, The New York Times Well Blog. A recent CT scan made me realize that the clinical trial extending my life effectively excludes all but the most privileged cancer patients. The trial exacts large expenses: it requires that people have periodic scans and does not pay . . . → Read More: Living With Cancer: The Cost of Trials
“A big thank-you to a community that rallied” by Michelle Winchenbach, Penobscot Bay Pilot. This has turned into quite the journey I never would have expected for my life. I have two young daughters who look to me for strength and guidance; how can I break down and give up, but expect them to believe . . . → Read More: A big thank-you to a community that rallied
“The Breast Cancer Racial Gap,” by Tara Parker Pope, The New York Times Well Blog. A troubling racial divide in breast cancer mortality continues to widen in most major cities around the country, suggesting that advances in diagnosis and treatment continue to bypass African-American women, according to new research. An analysis of breast cancer mortality . . . → Read More: The Breast Cancer Racial Gap
“Infantilizing life’s troubles: One has to wonder why a campaign like Pink Shirt Day is needed,” by Pete McMartin, The Vancouver Sun. I wear pink on occasion. A button-down Oxford cloth shirt with a blue blazer. For me, it’s an edgy fashion statement, not the colour of altruism. When my wife was diagnosed with breast . . . → Read More: Infantilizing life’s troubles
“The Lies That Doctors and Patients Tell, by Sandeep Jauhar, MD, The New York Times Well Blog. The doctor-patient relationship is ideally an intimate partnership where information is exchanged openly and honestly. That is seldom the reality, however. Deception in the doctor-patient relationship is more common than we’d like to believe. We don’t always reveal . . . → Read More: The Lies That Doctors and Patients Tell
““Misfearing” — Culture, Identity, and Our Perceptions of Health Risks,” by Lisa Rosenbaum MD, New England Journal of Medicine. “Misfearing,” the term Cass Sunstein uses to describe the human tendency to fear instinctively rather than factually, is not unique to women’s perceived health threats. Decades of research on risk perception have revealed the many factors . . . → Read More: “Misfearing” — Culture, Identity, and Our Perceptions of Health Risks
“Don’t slam Canada for mammogram study.” By H. Gilbert Welch, CNN. (CNN) — We all like to think medical care is about science, but too often it’s about professional interests. Last week, a 25-year follow-up of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study was published — one of the eight major randomized trials of screening mammography. . . . → Read More: Don’t slam Canada for mammogram study |
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