By Deborah Huso
When Mike Story of Hamburg, N.Y., lost his wife Kelly to breast cancer when she was only 49, he had no idea what was in store for him. Before he and his adopted daughter Carly barely had a chance to grieve, Story himself was diagnosed with breast cancer, according to a CBS News [...]

Heated gold nanoshells, the touted Houston invention now in cancer trials, appear to help kill diseased cells at a previously unreachable root level, according to new research.
In a mouse study published Wednesday, Houston researchers showed that the use of tiny gold-coated particles to deliver heat to breast cancer tumors already treated with radiation not only [...]

By Sandra Gordon
Breast cancer is an expensive illness, even if you have health insurance. “With today’s treatments, even just the copays on prescription drugs can be as high as tens of thousands of dollars per year,” says Marc Hurlbert, the executive director of the Avon Foundation for Women Breast Cancer Crusade in New York City. [...]

October 26, 2010
Not Alone in the Dark
Looking at What We Don’t Want to See
The things we don’t want to look at in ourselves are the very things we need to look at.
It is one of life’s great paradoxes that the things we don’t want to look at in ourselves are the very things we need [...]

October 22, 2010
Opening to Understanding
Willingness to Feel
We must be willing to dive deep and feel, really feel what is underneath. This is where you will be set free.
There are times when we may find ourselves struggling or even fighting with our thoughts and emotions. We may feel that something must be done in a certain [...]

By ANDREA REISER, For The News
Friday, October 22, 2010 5:03 PM CDT
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I hope that my story will inspire women to do everything they can to ensure that breast cancer is not on their lists of regrets.
Breast cancer. They’re two small words that barely take up any space [...]

According to Health.com, about 80 million Americans each year go on a diet, spending $40 billion annually on weight-loss aids and programs. Since dieting takes up so much of our collective consciousness, you’d think we would know everything there is to know about the facts of weight loss. Unfortunately, this isn’t true–myths about dieting abound [...]

Tamoxifen Works Poorly in Women With Active BCAR4 Gene, Study Shows
By Nicky Broyd
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Keith Barnard, MD
Oct. 12, 2010 — Scientists have identified a gene that could help predict whether a breast cancer patient will respond to the drug tamoxifen.
A study published today in the British Journal of Cancer showed a potential link [...]

October 18, 2010
Turn it Around
Laboring Under a Label
Are you living under the guise of a label? Do you put a label on people?
We live in a culture that uses labels as a means of understanding the world and the people living in it. As a result, many of us find ourselves laboring under a label [...]

Still, the portraits the Brookline photographer shot in Boston this summer are statistically unusual. All 14 are men who have had breast cancer, and all have ties to Camp Lejeune, N.C., either from serving there as Marines or growing up on base.
“The 15th person,” a Marine sergeant major, “had lost his little girl to cancer. [...]