2011 MAY 14 – (VerticalNews.com) — Kohl’s Department Stores (NYSE: KSS) invites customers to take the fight against breast cancer into the kitchen with new Kohl’s Cares(R) cause merchandise created by Food NetworkTM. The exclusive merchandise, designed to support women’s health, is available in all 40 Wisconsin Kohl’s stores and online at www.Kohls.com, with 100 [...]

Scientists from the Women’s Health Initiative have found a relationship between obesity, physical activity and triple-negative breast cancer, a subtype of breast cancer characterized by a lack of estrogen, progesterone and HER2 expression. Triple-negative breast cancers account for about 10 to 20 percent of all breast cancers and are associated with an extremely poor prognosis [...]

March 17, 2011
Choosing Loving Care
Extra Weight
If we make food choices from a place of love and awareness we will nurture ourselves with the foods our body really needs.
Our bodies are like living temples, and deserve all the love and care we can give them. Amazingly flexible and strong, they allow us to experience the world. [...]

PHOENIX – It’s the new tool in fighting breast cancer. The FDA just approved a new type of mammogram that gives doctors a better view — in 3-D.
One in 8 women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer. Starting April 1, women can get a 3-D mammogram at John C. Lincoln Breast Health and Research [...]

March 14, 2011
Feeling Threatened
Afraid of the Truth
We avoid the truth because it scares us, or makes us angry, or makes us feel like we don’t know what to do.
Most of us have had the experience of being in possession of a piece of truth that we were afraid to share because we knew it would [...]

March 12, 2011
Actively Participating
Showing up for Life
Showing up for your life means actively participating in our own life rather than hiding and going through the motions.
The way we walk into a room says a lot about the way we live our lives. When we walk into a room curious about what’s happening, willing to engage, [...]

March 11.2011–Medical News Today–Women with ductal carcinoma in situ – DCIS – who later develop invasive breast cancer in the same breast are at higher risk of dying from breast cancer than those who do not develop invasive disease, according to a study published online March 11 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Retrospective studies of [...]

March 10, 2011
A Bad Habit
Being Hard On Ourselves
When we are hard on ourselves for any reason, we send our bodies the message that we are not good enough.
One of the key components of human consciousness that most of us need to address and change is our tendency to be hard on ourselves. We do [...]

Philadelphia-area oncologist steps up work after surviving breast cancer
By Marie McCullough
Inquirer Staff Writer
Eleven months ago, Lankenau Medical Center oncologist Marisa Weiss was forging ahead with her latest project, a step-by-step guide to reducing the risk of breast cancer.
That’s when a mammogram revealed her breast cancer.
The painful irony is not lost on her: “Here I am, [...]

Susan Conley
Excerpt from the memoir The Foremost Good Fortune
Four years ago my husband, Tony, and I moved to Beijing, China with our two young boys. It was a great life adventure—we planned to travel the Chinese countryside and ride trains and rickshaws and horses. And we did. But halfway through our time in China, I [...]