Living With Cancer: Tackling Cancer Anxiety
No matter how long I deal with periodic blood tests, abdominal CTs and mammograms, they always trigger a huge wave of ‘ scanxiety. ’ (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: SUSAN GUBAR Tags: Ovarian Cancer Mammography Mastectomy Source Type: news
Women were waiting months for a mastectomy. This surgeon changed that.
In South Africa breast cancer can take 8 months to be diagnosed and 4 months for treatment to begin, but Project Flamingo is reducing the problem through its volunteer surgeons, who operate in their spare time -- and for free. To date they have saved the lives of 500 women. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - November 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
She Chose To 'Go Flat' And Wants Other Breast Cancer Survivors To Know They Can Too
After her double mastectomy, writer Catherine Guthrie came to embrace her new body, without breast reconstruction. But she's learned, women have to push the medical system to support this choice.(Image credit: Courtesy of Catherine Guthrie) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - November 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rachel D. Cohen Source Type: news
' But I'm a Man'; Tiny Tactic for Toxicity; Sex after Mastectomy
(MedPage Today) -- News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - October 25, 2018 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
Kenya:I've Struggled With Tumours in My Breast Since I Was 15
[Nation] Jacintah Njeri, 26, first felt a lump on her right breast when she was 15. She underwent two surgeries. After the second surgery, she was she told that the mass was cancerous and she had to undergo a mastectomy. Today, she is vocal about cancer awareness on her social media platforms. Jacintah, a sales agent, shares her story with Nation.co.ke. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
