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LA Times, Laurie Becklund covered the war in El Salvador, writing stories that would change Americans’ perception of the war. (Elizabeth Rose Becklund Weinstein) Former writer for the L.A. Times Laurie Becklund, age 66, died on February 8th from metastatic breast cancer. Metastasis refers to the spread of cancer to different parts of . . . → Read More: The Unbearable Weight of the Pink Ribbon 
Remembering What’s Important February is a hard month for BCC, as we remember our friend and collaborator Rachel Cheetham Moro. Rachel was on the ground floor of BCC’s planning but died 8 months before we launched in 2012. Even people who never met Rachel in person knew of her witty humor, evidence-based rants, and . . . → Read More: BCC Quarterly 2015 (Issue 1) is Out! 
BCC member, Dr. Judy Nudelman is a Board Certified family medicine physician who combines clinical work with medical student education, and is a clinical associate professor of family medicine at Brown University. She received her MD from University of Pittsburgh and her BA from University of Michigan, and did her residency in Family Medicine at . . . → Read More: How to Find a Qualified Lymphedema Therapist 
The longest randomized controlled trial to date on breast cancer chemoprevention with tamoxifen (a synthetic drug that blocks the effects of estrogen), IBIS-I, recently reported, after 16 years of follow-up, a 29 percent reduction in breast cancer (invasive and noninvasive types) for ‘high-risk’ women taking the drug for 5 years. The reduction in breast cancer . . . → Read More: Tamoxifen for Prevention of Breast Cancer: Extended Long-Term Follow-Up of the IBIS-I Breast Cancer Prevention Trial 
In March 2010, French company Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), a manufacturer of silicone breast implants since 1991 and one of the main producers of silicone breast implants for Europe and Latin America, was implicated in a scandal over a high rate of implant ruptures and use of substandard silicone. PIP had been using industrial-grade silicone . . . → Read More: Murky Devices: The PIP Breast Implant Scandal 
“Marketing to Doctors,” John Oliver, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. This eye-opening video reveals how pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars every year marketing drugs to you and your doctors. A study in 2013 found that 9 out of 10 of the top ten drug manufacturers spent more on marketing than they did . . . → Read More: Marketing to Doctors 
We never met but our lives intersected. And she will never know it. Rachel Cheetham Moro died three years ago, on February 6th, 2012. I was still being treated for breast cancer then, and my Italian breast cancer blog did not yet exist. Breast Cancer Consortium did not yet exist. Lucky for me, Rachel’s blog, . . . → Read More: Rachel’s Miracle 
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago, I fairly soon wanted to find my sisters. Other women who’d shared some of my experiences and ‘been in some of the same rooms’ — those places and days of rapid diagnosis, treatment decisions and prognosis. Other women I could really talk to. . . . → Read More: I remember you: For Rachel 
reviewed by Mary C. Maloy First published in the CRAAB! Newsletter, Vol 17. No. 1 (Fall 2014/Winter 2015), this review has been revised for the Breast Cancer Consortium and published with permission. The New York Times bestselling book Radical Remission offers an enlightened perspective on the radical concept of cancer remission by Kelly Turner PhD, . . . → Read More: Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds 
‘Pink ribbon culture’ dominates understandings of breast cancer in Western societies, but how do other countries define breast cancer culture? Ally Gibson Ally Gibson teams up with Christina Lee in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland and Shona Crabb in the Discipline of Public Health at the University of Adelaide . . . → Read More: Representations of women on Australian breast cancer websites: An Interview with Alexandra Gibson |
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