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Dear Friends, Here is the latest issue of the BCC Quarterly, a little later than usual, but full of insightful commentary. We review recent books and share initiatives to change health care for the better. We deconstruct yet another screening mammography campaign and point out the conflicts of interest that continue to create confusion instead . . . → Read More: BCCQ (Issue 3) Is Out! 
“For those who survive and those who do not.” That is the dedication Susan Gubar gives to her new book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal. The straight-forward acknowledgement that some people with cancer survive and others do not, suggests instantly that this book is not be about drippy cancer stories floating rhetoric of . . . → Read More: Book Review: Reading & Writing Cancer When Dr. Susan Love was updating the 2015 edition of her Breast Book for a chapter titled, “When Cancer Comes Back,” she asked women with metastatic (stage IV) breast cancer what they wished the public knew about this disease. Many replied that, “the ‘early detection’ of an invasive cancer through [mammography] screening does not guarantee . . . → Read More: Inaccurate Claims about the Unequivocal Benefit of Early Detection Persist Despite Evidence to the Contrary. PAGES: 1 2 3 Is Childlessness Really Another Side Effect of Cancer? The emphasis on biological motherhood in the field of oncofertility masks at least two societal forces contributing to the cancer/infertility equation. First, the conditions in which people live and work are are already linked to cancers and adverse effects on women’s . . . → Read More: Oncofertility: Beyond Biological Motherhood, Towards Reproductive Justice – 3 PAGES: 1 2 3 Rethinking Normative Expectations As professionals, we have to balance our responsibility to care, inform and research for safer fertility treatments while respecting women’s choices that may at times go against dominant models of womanhood. In doing so, it is crucial to acknowledge several problems stemming from norms about reproduction . . . → Read More: Oncofertility: Beyond Biological Motherhood, Towards Reproductive Justice – 2 PAGES: 1 2 3 Cancer and cancer treatments can have a huge impact on women’s sexual and reproductive health. Yet, when I started my research on breast cancer and social inequality in Spain a decade ago this issue was hardly being addressed in international scholarly debates or in clinical settings. Several of the . . . → Read More: Oncofertility: Beyond Biological Motherhood, Towards Reproductive Justice 
“Fact-checking the Trump – Oz health sitdown” by Kevin Lomangino, Health News Review. Unsubstantiated health information in any medium does a disservice to public health communication in general. This is why we support the critical evaluations from the folks at Health News Review (HNR), which evaluates health news using systematic criteria to assess the extent . . . → Read More: Fact-checking the Trump – Oz health sitdown 
Nancy Stordahl is a former educator, breast cancer blogger at NancysPoint, and a friend of mine. I was delighted to get my signed copy of her self-published memoir Cancer Was Not A Gift & It Didn’t Make Me A Better Person, about her personal experiences with breast cancer. Some of these I already knew about . . . → Read More: Book Review: Cancer Was Not A Gift, And It Didn’t Make Me A Better Person 
The Lown Institute is a nonprofit, action-driven think tank founded by cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Bernard Lown, MD. Dedicated to transforming the culture of medicine and building a healthcare system that is affordable, effective, personal and just, the Institute created the RightCare Alliance to bring health professionals, religious and community groups, and the . . . → Read More: What Worries You Most About Health Care? 
Why is so much attention being drawn to lifestyle risks in places where the risk of developing cancer due to environmental factors has already been established? Toxic refuse has been illegally disposed of for a long time (potentially since the late 1980s) in Campania, a territory in Italy known as Terra dei fuochi (‘Land of . . . → Read More: Blaming the Southern Victim: A Case in Italy |
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