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Yes, another pink product sighting at the grocery store! Seems Bumble Bee Foods has launched an Interactive Health and Wellness Program to benefit the Y-Me National Breast Cancer Foundation.
The program runs from May 1 to June 30, 2008.
“During the two-month campaign, grocery store shelves will get a makeover with 10 million pink Bumble Bee® Solid […]
Do we need another reason to get our children exercising early in their lifetimes? Seems that regular exercise in adolescence and young adulthood may help lower a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer before menopause.
“The women who were the most physically active were 23 percent less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than the women […]
I read in a US News & World Report article today that women whose sisters were diagnosed with breast cancer face an increased risk of breast cancer throughout their lives regardless of their sister’s age at diagnosis.
I have two sisters, so I was particularly interested in this one. I did a quick look at the […]
Hard to believe this, but researchers are learning how to potentially target tumors with tiny, robotic ‘nanoworms’ that could administer a lethal dose of an anti-cancer drug without impacting other parts of the body.
Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed these ‘nanoworms’ that cruise through the bloodstream and could act […]
People newly diagnosed with breast cancer have very specific mental health needs. Check out the facts cited in a 2006 Psych Central article:
“While nearly half of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients experience clinically significant mental anguish before treatment begins, the disorders are often unrecognized and undertreated. In a new study by Dartmouth Medical School researchers, […]
Just got this email from Lance Armstrong …thought I’d share it with you (and no, I don’t kid myself by thinking he wrote to me personally):
Tomorrow is LIVESTRONG Day, a day when more than 600 cancer awareness and fundraising events will take place all across the country. Every staff member from my Foundation is attending […]
It just isn’t fair.
Because mothers really, really get it all done, don’t they? They manage the household (the bills, the utilities, the repairs). They cook and they clean and they shop and they launder. They care for the children (the bumps and the bruises, the dentist and doctor appointments, the school/camp/sports registrations). They take care […]
Last night I posted Connie Pombo’s survivor story. I also had the honor of asking her a few questions about survivorship … here’s what she shared:
What was the worst part of your experience with breast cancer?
The worst part of my cancer diagnosis was knowing that I might not be alive to see my children through […]
Today I’m going to share with you the personal breast cancer survivor story of Connie Pombo.
Connie recently shared how her life changed drastically on March 21, 1996 when she heard those fateful words, ‘you have cancer.’
It is my pleasure to share this survivor story with you. Everyone? Meet Connie Pombo:
“What did I do […]
I just settled down to some Friday Night television and what do I find? A Fox New York Breast Cancer Special Report. Quick! Turn on Fox 5 News, now!
No, seriously, there’s only 15 more minutes, you’ll probably miss it. But I did a quick Internet search to find out what I could for you […]
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Written by Karen Lynch [email] for b5media.
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