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breast cancer

Is this too much information?

January 9, 2010

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Latest story from Association Press
If you thought there was enough personal information floating around on Facebook, I wonder what you think of this?
Latest posting is a apparently a campaign designed to raise awareness about breast cancer, asking women to update their status with one simple word: the colour of their bra.  Give them [...]

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Cancer Pioneer dies aged 82

January 6, 2010

Mobile Mammogram van – a familiar site today

Once upon a time …  many of the best surgeons started their careers on the rugby field, and Paddy Boulter, who died recently, was no exception.
A Carlisle Grammar School boy, he led the way in breast cancer detection, working alongside Dr. John Price,playing a key role in [...]

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New way of using Herceptin when treating Breast Cancer

December 17, 2009

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New Breast Cancer Treatment Recommended at San Antonio
Every year, the world’s top Oncologists gather at the San Antonio symposium, in Texas.  This year, CancerCompass reports that Doctors at the  symposium have found a new protocol for treating breast cancer shows possibly paradigm-shifting results, they say.
Dr. Edith Perez, a breast cancer researcher at a [...]

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Finding a local cancer centre that suits you

December 1, 2009

Maggie’s Centre, Dundee  Wikipedia

WHAT ARE THEY?
At first I thought they weren’t for me – I didn’t want to talk to a lot of other patients moaning about their aches and pains.
Then I was curious, and went to a Look Good, Feel Better session, and found these groups aren’t moaners at all – they run [...]

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Are we at risk from too much screening for cancer?

November 17, 2009

Having a Mammogram  Wikipedia

SCREENING – GOOD THING OR BAD?
Recently there has been a lot of media attention over reports on screening – basically saying that for some people there has been ‘over-screening’, and operations might have been performed unnecessarily.
If you have had an operation, it will have been carried out on the best advice that [...]

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Inventors Wanted for NHS

October 30, 2009

Trevort Baylis    Wikipedia

CALLING ALL INVENTORS
The NHS has set aside £220 million to be made available for their  Innovation programme, to “support faster innovation and more universal diffusion of best practice.”  In other words to encourage, recognise and reward new products and inventions to help improve the service.
The service is desperately in need of sensible [...]

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Middleton wants breast screening service

October 25, 2009

BREAST CANCER SCREENING IN MIDDLETON AND ROCHDALE
In a week when Mark Simmonds, speaking on behalf of the Conservatives, said that in Switzerland breast screening waiting times were being reduced from FIVE days to THREE !  I was asked to publicise a Campaign for Breast Cancer Screening in Middleton, in the Greater Manchester area.
Campaigners say “we [...]

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Breast cancer charities should stop selling tatty pink tat rubbish

October 17, 2009

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UPDATE ON TACKY PINK
Since I posted the story on Cancer gifts getting my goat (see short stories), I have had over 500 responses.
Even Yahoo Answers has entered the debate.  With apologies to them, but since it is impossible to contact anyone from Yahoo I can’t ask their permission to quote, their respondents say…
“Too [...]

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Tacky cancer gifts get my goat!

October 14, 2009

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OCTOBER IS PINK MONTH
and don’t we just know it. Stores have latched on to this as a way of being seen to do good, whilst increasing revenue, from Dorothy Perkins to Harvey Nichols.
Fair enough, they are in business to make money, and if as cancer patients we [...]

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Demand a mammogram!

September 29, 2009

Mammogram Wikipedia

AFTER CARE AND FOLLOW-UPS
Don’t worry if coughs and sneezes send the worry factor spinning.  Even after you finish your treatment, it is quite normal to be concerned that any little problem might, just might, be cancer coming back.
However, it is a good idea to schedule your follow-up tests, especially mammograms, when you finish your [...]

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