Used to be if you claimed that you got cancer because you were hit there (wherever on the body there was), people would scoff. Now research...
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Used to be if you claimed that you got cancer because you were hit there (wherever on the body there was), people would scoff. Now research...
[Is this breast black or white?] For a while, there's been the term DWB--Driving While Black--African-American drivers report being pull...
Soy has been another one of those things--unclear whether it's bane or boon to women whose tumors feed on estrogen. The reason is that s...
I take it and don't think about the side effects very often because I can't bear to. The oncologist said to take it so I take it. I ...
OK, it's not fair to attack the Tribune twice in a row--it's too easy, but I had to point this out. An editor was sleeping when work...
That's what I learned from reading the Chicago Tribune today, specifically, a little wrap-around page touting itself. But wasn't it ...
["Curiouser and curiouser."] Holy Toledo! Now we don't need Pap smears as often. Have we been (the equivalent) of navel-gazing...
...or at least it seems so. Now they say that self-exams aren't necessary and that you don't need a mammogram until age 40. I'll...
{ Sorry--I couldn't figure out technically how to capture a still of the woman examining her breasts. It is much less sexy than this sto...
[Imagine a red slash through the smiley face] The pinkness and cheeriness of the breast cancer industry made Barbara Ehrenreich note the per...
L took the picture of me above and it didn't seem to look like me. It reminded me of young Leonard Michaels (1933-2003), whom I talked a...
At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without universal health insurance. He...
Maybe I'm wrong about the reason the original oncologist didn't give me Cytoxan. Maybe there was another reason, which I forgot in m...
Dear Cancer Bitch readers, I will relate a scenario to you and I'd like you to vote on my response. Today I went to a town hall sponsore...
D called at noon when I was finishing up my morning sun salutations and we decided to meet for lunch at 12:30. I rushed out and got into L...
Cancer Bitch recommends that you do not ask this question. She has asked it twice in the last 2 years and it was awkward in the first case. ...
She said, Did you ask your oncologist what she thought about the calcifications ? I said, No, I forgot. Then I thought better of it and thou...
I am the stone. I've heard over and over that exercise is important in keeping breast cancer from coming back. I even have an exercise b...
I found a new-ish (launched this summer) website that tells you what pesticides you're ingesting with each piece of fruit or vegetable....
Swedish researchers found that eating foods that were high in acrylamide did not cause breast cancer. To wit: During a mean follow-up of 1...
First the sweet: A pot of bright tomato-red-orange lilies appeared in one of our flower beds yesterday. It seems new, since the tag is still...
The New York Times reported today on a study by the American Institute for Cancer Research. Conclusion: Women can cut their risk of breast c...
That's what they always ask you: Where is your pain on a scale of one to ten? The question, of course, is, what's ten? I imagine ten...
downtown Litchpatch ...as far as we know. My mother-in-law's melanoma was removed from her leg, skin was grafted over it, and there'...
My mother is a subset of the category of Typical Jewish Mother--she's elegant and tasteful, The Jewish Jackie Kennedy, my cousin has cal...
I got my first royalty check ever today: 895 whole dollars, US. I still owe money to the publishers of my other two books; the difference is...
As a kid, it seemed that everyone else had gotten the guidebook. The other kids knew what it meant, for example, when someone asked if you w...
I am sitting at the dining room table in the house of strangers who are vacationing in Oregon. I have never met them, but they left their ke...