Cell phones get the OK

Now you can call all your friends and tell them the news: The link between cell phones and cancer is not strong. Not at all. The New York Ca...

Radiation is Good, says the Lancet

The New York Times just reported on an important British study showing that radiation prevented recurrences and saved lives of women who ha...

While I was Out...

The New York Times had a good mid-October report on the pinking of America. Basically, it was about the rise of the upbeat Komen for the Cur...

Return of the Bitch

It has been more than a month since I've blogged and I thought it was due to laziness but it may have been lack of urgency, since this i...

Announces or reveals?

Newsperson Andrea Mitchell has reported that she has breast cancer. You've probably already heard that. Odd that NBC http://www.nbcchica...

When the brand means the brand

Let's consider brands, not as in corporate branding or even personal branding, both kinds ubiquitous in this Age of Labeling. (A student...

the doom of it

B reminded me that when her physical pain was so great years ago, she had told me she thought of suicide, and then later, maybe months or ye...

Success!

This morning my hematologist Dr. Z called the Quick Dermatologist and got him to agree to increase my light therapy to three times a week. S...

The Suspense Builds...

This is the fax I sent to the Fancy Dermatology Dept. today. I succeeded in getting an appt. Sept. 1 with another derma on the staff. But th...

Will it never stop? the annals of bureaucracy

When we were in southern Maine in July we walked along the beach, got our legs wet, rinsed off, then started back up the road to our motel. ...

Ozone action

So tomorrow is to be an ozone action day in the Chicago area, meaning that those in "sensitive groups" who have sensitive lungs ...

Training

So I get a robo-call from Rite Aid Pharmacy, where I got one prescription when I was in Massachusetts this summer. The computer voice asked ...

Brain and Body

The New York Times reports that moderate exercise, including light weight-lifting twice a week, can help keep your brain from deteriorating,...

On Vacation

Haymarket Cafe, North "don't aspirate the H" ampton, MA: Cancer Bitch has been studying African-American history in New Englan...

"The Big C" returns

I saw the cable cancer show, just once, last year, when it was launched. It was the only episode I could watch for free, since we don't...

The new fountain of youth

[This is how I would look having coffee in London in 1740 if I were male. I'm the one in the powdered wig and breeches.] All of us are t...

A cure for lymphedema?

A French doctor has pioneered the transfer of lymph nodes from the groin or other body area to the underarm in order to put a stop to lymphe...

News to me: estrogen is not the enemy

Two gynecologists have told my friend S she needs a hysterectomy, which she is scheduled to have in August. She told me that the docs told h...

So what did they expect?

Researchers in Portland, Oregon, found out that when people lost Medicaid dental benefits...they went to the dentist less, their dental hea...

Test problems

Ah, it can make life difficult from time to time when your basic fear is of annihilation. I'm afraid of my personality being squelched, ...

Time to parler that Frainch

The New York Times says that we're better organized and more focused if we speak two languages. There’s a system in your brain, the ex...

The wonders of jagua

Jagua is a fruit-based temporary dye. It is not black henna , which is henna mixed with black hair dye, and can cause all sorts of nasty bli...

Pregnant and diagnosed with cancer--not the end of the world?

CNN reported this morning about women who survived chemo while pregnant and gave birth to healthy babies. Usually, it's simply a terribl...

If You Recall the Past in Detail, You'll be Less Depressed than if You Recall it Only Generally

Australian firefighters who experienced trauma were more likely to have PTSD if they couldn't recall the events specifically. That is w...

The MAAMies

The votes are in, and Cancer Bitch did not win a MAAMie this year, but CB congratulates the winners of Mammogramatically Challenged And/Or A...

Statute of Limitations on Chemo Brain is Extended or: Where Did That Noun Go? Check Back in Five Years.

The New York Times Well blog reports that chemo brain doesn't necessarily fade away after a year. It can last up to five years. Or more...

Another temporary bald head

Nicole Xylouri Osborne is going through chemo with attitude. Here she is with her new "do" by Sheba of Sparrow.

I have been remiss

Please excuse Cancer Bitch's absence from her blog for the past week. Wait--it's been longer than that. She's been, uh, observin...

Still Focused on Myself

I made an appointment to see the periodontist (pere) on Wednesday because I am still in dental pain. His son did the implant but has been ou...

Just one sentence about me

The antibiotic I'm taking to get rid of the infection from my dental implant precludes me from getting my twice-weekly phototherapy that...

Does "support" include treatment?

Komen just received a $1 million grant to tell poor ladies in the Rust Belt about breast cancer. Over the next four years, the program will...

I Love Prednisone & I ain't foolin'

I love prednisone in the summer, I love prednisone in the fall, I love prednisone in the winter, and I got my hands on some today because I ...

Cartoon for the day

Scar project

I just came across this. This is one of a number of pictures of young women 18-35 who had breast cancer. The photographer is David Jay and y...

Hill of Beans

The Huffington Post reports that scientists at Stanford have figured out a way to turn anxiety off and on in mice. About one-fifth of Ameri...

Midnight in the Garden of Mammos

[still from CBS] Today's Trib had a story about mammogram parties at local hospitals. Apparently this has been going on for quite a whi...

In Qatar

It used to be that people wouldn't talk about cancer, especially breast cancer, and that women who noticed lumps would wait months and m...

Two million of us

There were 2,591,855 survivors of breast cancer in the US on January 1, 2007. That's according to a new study released by the Centers f...

News flash: Hot flashes are good! Or at least not bad for you!

Is it hot in here? A new study of menopausal women shows that hot flashes aren't all bad. We found that women who experienced symptoms w...

Man speaks for woman

O O O this should not bother me, but after all I'm the Bitch, and so many things can bother me that wouldn't bother a non-bitchy per...