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I just returned from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, the most important breast cancer conference in the world held annually in the United States. Thanks to a scholarship from Advocates for Breast Cancer, a nonprofit organization founded and directed by Susan Zager, I had the opportunity to participate in this intense week of scientific . . . → Read More: Jennie, A Steel Twig 
Read in PDF » According to a large, population-based study, patients with early-stage breast cancer who received breast-conserving surgery plus radiation therapy (BCT) had improved overall survival after 10 years when compared to those who had a mastectomy. Sabine Siesling, PhD, a senior researcher at the Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Center Organization and professor . . . → Read More: Research Brief: Breast-conserving Therapy Yielded Better Outcomes Than Mastectomy for Early-stage Patients 
“*Sad face*: Being happy does not help you live longer,” New Scientist, Dec. 10, 2015. The power of positive thinking has passed into folklore, helping to fuel a large self-help industry – not to mention people who like to post “inspirational” quotes on social media. Some cancer bloggers complain that common advice to “fight” their . . . → Read More: Being happy does not help you live longer 
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) held December 8-12, 2015 is designed to provide the latest experimental research on breast cancer and premalignant breast disease to an international audience of academic and private physicians and researchers. BCC partner Grazia de Michele is attending this year’s symposium with a scholarship from Advocates for Breast Cancer. . . . → Read More: SABCS Under Way 
By Kirsten Kaae In the turbulent wake following the death of a loved one, “firsts” of all kinds feel strange and unwanted. The holidays with their call for good cheer are probably the most dreaded ones of all. There is no time of year more fraught with expectations that are steeped in shared memories, . . . → Read More: Grief Through The Holidays
This study explores how the 2009 guidelines on screening mammography released by the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) may have affected screening mammography rates among women aged 65 and older. The guidelines outlined in the figure below recommended against routine screening for women aged 40-49 years (unless warranted by individual patient context and values); . . . → Read More: Research Brief. Screening Mammography Rates in the Medicare Population before and after the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Guideline Change 
Computer trainer Miriam Engelberg had always been a voracious reader of comics, from the popular satire of Mad Magazine to the more literary and autobiographical comics written by Harvey Pekar, Lynda Barry and others. Following the birth of her son Aaron, she set out to create a few panels of her own to spoof the . . . → Read More: Book Review: Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person
“The Hottest New Cancer Drugs Depend on Gut Microbes,” The Atlantic, Nov. 5, 2015. Immunotherapy doesn’t work for everyone, and a series of new studies might explain why. Few recent developments have created more excitement in the world of cancer research than the rise of immunotherapy. After decades of frustration, scientists have finally found . . . → Read More: The Hottest New Cancer Drugs Depend on Gut Microbes 
BCC partners Grazia de Michele and Ana Porroche Escudero participated in an influential public event on breast cancer this past October held at Marienea, Basauri’s Women’s Association in Bilbao, Spain. The event was sponsored by the Women’s Institute of the Basque Country (Emakunde-Emakumearen Euskal Erakundea), the premier group responsible for promoting, advising, and assessing gender . . . → Read More: International Feminist Critiques of Breast Cancer Culture
“A Growing Disenchantment With October ‘Pinkification,’” by Gina Kolata, The New York Times, Oct. 30, 2015. The White House went pink this month, awash for a night in rose-colored light. Delta Air Lines painted a huge pink ribbon on one of its planes, dressed flight attendants in pink and has been selling pink lemonade to . . . → Read More: A Growing Disenchantment With October ‘Pinkification’ |
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