|
||
“Cue the Kellers.” By Jody Schoger, Women With Cancer. Lisa Adams is a stunningly articulate blogger and mother of three from New England who has suddenly found herself as the Rorschsach test for two prominent journalists who should have known better. The husband and wife team, Emma and Bill Keller, writing for the Guardian and . . . → Read More: Cue the Kellers 
Updated Jan. 16, 2014 There is a major kerfuffle in mass media right now about two journalists, and a blogger with metastatic breast cancer. Guardian columnist Emma Keller and her husband, former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, wrote opinion pieces about Lisa Bonchek Adams, a Connecticut resident living with metastatic breast cancer who . . . → Read More: Are there Ethics to Tweeting Your Illness?
A pair of opinion pieces published by Guardian columnist Emma Keller and her husband, former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, were viewed on the internet as personal attacks on Lisa Bonchek Adams, a Connecticut resident who discusses life with metastatic cancer via Twitter and her blog. Read more about the Kellers’s inaccurate and . . . → Read More: On Life, Death, and Social Media: What’s Up with the Keller Campaign Against Lisa Bonchek Adams?
“Komen Sees Significant Drop in 2013 Contributions.” Philanthropy News Digest. Contributions to Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure fell 22 percent in the twelve months following its decision in January 2012 to stop funding Planned Parenthood affiliates — a decision it subsequently reversed, the Associated Press reports. Citing audited financial statements (49 pages, PDF) . . . → Read More: Komen Sees Significant Drop in 2013 Contributions
“HOT TOPICS 2014: Breast Cancer.” MedPageToday. What do you anticipate will be the most important clinical development in breast cancer in 2014? We put that question to Larry Norton, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Nancy Davidson, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh, and Lisa Carey, MD, of the University of . . . → Read More: HOT TOPICS 2014: Breast Cancer 
The American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries collaborate annually to provide updates on cancer incidence and death rates and trends in these outcomes for the United States. This year’s Annual Report to the Nation on the status . . . → Read More: Research Brief: Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer
“Komen sees big drop in contributions after dispute.” by Jamie Stengle, Associated Press, SFGate. DALLAS (AP) — Susan G. Komen for the Cure saw a 22 percent drop in contributions in the year following the controversy over its decision, quickly reversed, to stop giving grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings. Citing audited financial . . . → Read More: Komen sees big drop in contributions after dispute 
ANNOUNCEMENT Preventing Overdiagnosis 2014 Conference September 15-17, 2014 Oxford, UK The Preventing Overdiagnosis conference will take place on 15-17 September 2014 in the UK in partnership with one of the world’s most respected medical journals, the BMJ. A limited number of places are available at the current fee of £345.00. Abstract submission will close on . . . → Read More: Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, 2014 Registration, Abstracts OPEN
“Breast Cancer Screenings: What We Still Don’t Know.” by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, The New York Times. A COUPLE of months ago, JAMA Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association, published the findings of a brief online survey of middle-aged Americans. Most had previously been screened for either breast or prostate cancer. But . . . → Read More: Breast Cancer Screenings: What We Still Don’t Know
“I Had My DNA Picture Taken, With Varying Results.” by Kira Peikoff, The New York Times. In recent years, a handful of studies have found substantial variations in the risks for common diseases predicted by direct-to-consumer companies. I set out to test the tests: Could three of them agree on me? The answers were . . . → Read More: I Had My DNA Picture Taken, With Varying Results |
||
| Copyright © 2025 Breast Cancer Consortium – Archives - All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | ||