The 8 Nights of Chanukah and Beyond

Cancer Bitch has agreed to write eight prose poems about the eight nights of Chanukah. They are appearing a few days after the events depict...

ForChicago-area Lymphodema Bitches

Highlights from "Research Round Up" the 2012 Lymphedma Conference Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM Loca...

Hear the Bitch!

The audio book of Cancer Bitch just came out and Salon is very excited about it. Virtuosic, poignant.

No, not me

In answer to your question, I don't have mets. I was making the announcement (below) for a friend. Five years and 2 months after the en...

Got Mets?

For the uninitiated, mets refers to metastatic cancer. The existence of survivors with metastatic breast cancer is the unacknowledged shadow...

Four Kinds of Breast Cancer

The New York Times reports on a study of genomes in breast cancer in the journal Nature. The most interesting piece of it is that triple-ne...

Breast Cancer Town Hall Meeting, Chicago 9/30/12

Hear ye, hear ye, all you breast cancer bitches out there: Do you have questions about treatment options, nutrition and physical activity, f...

Are you there, Doc? It's me, Judy

It is with sadness that we welcome Judy Blume to the breast-cancer sisterhood. It sounds like she's making the best of it and she has a...

Uh oh! Cancer Bitch jumps on the pink bandwagon?

Cancer Bitch (far right) finds herself atop a pink firetruck used by an organization that raises money for various females with cancer and ...

Great News! People don't die of breast cancer any more!

That's what Congressional hopeful Chris Collins says. In his world, people don't die of cancer --because health care is so great and...

IVF and breast cancer

It's not conclusively cause and effect, says researcher, but there is a link.

Breastvertising, Breastaurants & More

Sex sells, breasts sell, says Adweek . Male drivers were about 60 percent more likely to give a lift to the woman with a C cup than an A cup...

New drug for triple-negative cancers

Thanks to Katy Jacob for this, and for pointing out that the Trib headline referred to breast drug s.   The change is part of a push at th...

Aquittal and mistrial for John Edwards

John Edwards, the worst-behaving spouse of a person with breast cancer, was aquitted today on one count; a mistrial was declared on the oth...

Direct from the New York (Cancer) Times

(all the cancer news that fits) Cancer, at Age 23 This video series is about life. But life with cancer. “Since the diagnosis, my life has b...

Lakewood & Byron, Wrigleyville, Chicago

Our well-traveled poppies have bloomed. They started out in Litchfield, Illinois, then a few plants went to Gary, Indiana, and now they'...

Embrace Your Allergies!

The New York Times refers us to Psychology Today to "The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius, " Margie Profet (pictured above)...

Au Temps Perdu

illustration: Arthur Rackham I am in Iowa City, where many years ago (many many) I was a graduate student in fiction in the famed Iowa Write...

Another reason to exercise regularly...

Those nice researchers at the Kinsey Institute found what the marketing folks would call "value added." Thanks, Dawn Turner Trice ...

Inquiry: Block cancer center

Fellow cancer folk: Have you been treated at the  Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment  in Skokie? A friend of a friend in Californ...

Komenwatch: Nancy Brinker says she's sorry

Read about it in Politico .                                            This is St. Jerome, not Nancy Brinker (who is Jewish),               ...

I knit, therefore I am

Why does this Englishwoman knit breasts? Find out here or post your own guess in Comments. Thanks to Anne Basye for the link.

Texas

In the yellow pages at our hotel in Ft. Worth (nestled next to the requisite bible), the listings under Taxicabs were shorter than the ones ...

Who's responsible for vintage racism?

Sammee Tong I also watched an episode of Bachelor Father , which was vaguely familiar. It starred John Forsythe and aired from 1957 to 1962...

The war on daytime tv

William Conrad as Cannon Peter van Pels (aka van Daan) Cancer Bitch's other nom de guerre is Holocaust Girl , and as Holocaust Girl, she...

News!!! Spine discovered by Republican-founded Komen Foundation

NYT: Cancer Group, Reversing Course, Says It Will Maintain Planned Parenthood Funding Komen is reversing its course on cutting the breast-ca...

O, you Komen!

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has funded some 170,000 breast exams at Planned Parenthood in the last five years. But no more. A...

Chocolat

I have been abstemious in my eating: no sugar, no flours since September or so. Today I had chocolate (73 percent dark, as people in my soci...

A quarter of a year later...

The Bitch returns. The Bitch is still aflutter: What does this blog serve? What does it do for her own imperiled psyche? What should the sub...