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I get public relations pitches every day about the latest breast cancer fill-in-the-blank. I usually delete them as soon as they come in, but last week I lingered on one longer than usual. The pitch said that Dr. Allen Gabriel and The Pink Lemonade Project, along with Alaska Airlines and Starbucks, were inviting me to . . . → Read More: Rights or Rhetoric? Breast Reconstruction Awareness 
“How Doctors Die.” By Ken Murray, MD, The Saturday Evening Post. It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend . . . → Read More: How Doctors Die
“A Plan To Fix Cancer Care.” By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The New York Times. This year, more than 1.6 million Americans — 0.5 percent of the population — will receive a diagnosis of cancer. Their treatment will consume at least 5 percent of the country’s health care spending, at a cost that is growing faster . . . → Read More: A Plan To Fix Cancer Care
“Male breast cancer: patient and doctor discuss experience and treatment.” Cancer Newsline, MD Anderson Cancer Center Male breast cancer accounts for approximately one percent of all breast cancer cases diagnosed in the United States each year. Listen to male breast cancer patient, Oliver Bogler, phD and his MD Anderson Cancer Center oncologist, Sharon Giordano, MD . . . → Read More: Podcast on Male Breast Cancer 
Ask any survivor about side-effects or working with an oncologist and you’ll receive a notebook’s worth of helpful information. Ditto for managing cancer on the job or with children. But ask them about their relationship and you’re apt to hear variations on this theme, “He never blinked,” or “He really showed me how strong a . . . → Read More: Cancer and My Marriage 
For the last 20 years, NBCC members have gathered in Washington, DC. to learn, study, network, and lobby about breast cancer policy and social change at the NBCC Advocacy Training Conference. In 2010 NBCC declared the Breast Cancer Deadline 2020 — a goal to end of breast cancer by January 1, 2020 — which . . . → Read More: NBCC Inaugural Advocate Leadership Summit, May 4-7, 2013. 
This book is not about breast cancer. But it may be of interest to those who are exploring the discourse of hope that dominates biomedicine and the broader cultural landscape oriented to survivorship. The Paradox of Hope by Cheryl Mattingly intimately explores the experiences of African American families who are caring for children with a . . . → Read More: Book Review — The Paradox of Hope
“Radiation Raises Women’s Risk of Heart Disease Only Slightly, Study Finds.” By Denise Grady, The New York Times Radiation treatment for breast cancer can increase a woman’s risk of heart disease, doctors have long known. But the size of the added risk has not been clear. In treating a patient for breast cancer, Dr. Silvia . . . → Read More: Radiation Raises Women’s Risk of Heart Disease Only Slightly 
Panel Discussion on March 5, 2013 The NGender Seminar Series at the University of Sussex (U.K.) teamed up with Breast Cancer Consortium members Dr. Ana Porroche-Escudero (University of Sussex) and Dr. Grazia de Michele to co-host a special session on Breast Cancer Awareness to celebrate International Women’s Day. The event involved the screening . . . → Read More: Thought Provoking Questions Raised in Breast Cancer Debate 
ANNOUNCEMENT Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) works to improve women’s lives through advancing and supporting feminist sociological research, activism and scholars. SWS is a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization with members in the U.S. and overseas. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research about women; educate colleagues, the general public, and government officials . . . → Read More: Call for Applications – SWS Dissertation Scholarship |
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