About half of breast cancer patients do not take their medication for the recommended period of time, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, USA Today reports (Szabo, USA Today, 6/29).
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente in Northern California examined the pharmacy records of 8,769 women with [...]

July 1, 2010
The Weight of the Past
Regret
Holding onto regret is like dragging the weight of the past with us everywhere. It drains our energy, leaving less available for life now.
Holding onto regret is like dragging the weight of the past with us everywhere we go. It drains our energy, leaving less available for life in [...]

Life at the Bottom of the Toy Box
If you have looked around lately you have noticed that Toy Story 3 mania is everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE! From the cereal aisle to the toy section Toy Story is everywhere.  You can’t miss the signs if you wanted to. I wish the fight against breast cancer [...]

June 25, 2010
Stronger Than You Know
Getting Ourselves Worked Up
We are almost always stronger and more capable than we believe ourselves to be.
Our capacity to cope successfully with life’s challenges far outstrips our capacity to feel nervousness. Yet in the weeks, days, and hours leading up to an event that we believe will test our [...]

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has received a $5.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct and lead a first-of-its-kind, four-year clinical trial to show the effects of weight loss and increased physical activity on quality of life and on co-existing medical conditions in overweight breast cancer survivors. This [...]

Washington, DC – In a surprise turnabout, coming the day after it had rejected the same measure, the US Senate reached a last-minute deal Friday to delay a planned 21.3% Medicare fee cut for six months. The legislation also provides a 2.2% payment increase.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell [...]

Las Vegas, Nevada–June 21, 2010- It was sometime last March when Stacy Martello, breast cancer survivor and founder of Fight Pink, met Gina Maisano.
She is a fellow two time breast cancer survivor, founder of the No Surrender Breast Cancer Foundation and now…an author!  In Gina’s book, Intimacy After Breast Cancer, she touches on [...]

June 18, 2010
Useful Transformation
Make Change Work For You
At the root of all growth, we find change. Allow it to work for you not against.
Transformation is a universal constant that affects our lives from the moment we are born until we leave earthly existence behind. At the root of all growth, we find change. Occasionally, change [...]

Actress – and now breast cancer survivor – Maura Tierney is ready to return to TV.  Tierney was diagnosed with breast cancer and had surgery in July 2009, stepping down from a role in NBC’s Parenthood.  Finished with treatment and ready to work again, the former ER doctor will take the role of an attorney [...]

June 17, 2010
Below the Surface
Finding Deep Strength
We have all have times in our lives when we think we don’t have the strength to carry on. You do, and you can.
We have all faced moments in our lives when the pressure mounts beyond what we feel we can handle, and we find ourselves thinking that we [...]