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  • BREAST CANCER,  BREAST CANCER AWARENESS,  COMMUNITY,  metastatic breast cancer

    A Day in the Life – Stage IV

    October 4, 2018

    By: Leah Taylor What you are about to read is my experience from September 25, 2018. It could be quite difficult to read for anyone dealing with breast cancer. It is raw and real. 6:15 a.m. I wake up. The bed leaves me stiff but I am grateful for my son and his family and their extra bed. So, I…

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  • BREAST CANCER,  metastatic breast cancer

    Kristen’s Legacy

    October 1, 2018

    By: Joseph Jennings On 9-27, Kristen would have been 42, had her life not been cut short because of breast cancer. There is hardly a day that goes by that my mind doesn’t goes back to Nov 9.  I see Abigail crying while giving her mom a kiss and telling her one final time “goodbye mom, I love you”.  It…

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    The Breast Advocate App: A Review from a Patient Advocate

    September 27, 2018

    Breast Advocate is an app for any woman or man affected by breast cancer, or at high risk of developing breast cancer. I write this review as a patient advocate and two-time breast cancer survivor.I have been an educator my entire professional life. I combine my training as an educator with my current role as a patient advocate providing information…

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    A Day in the Life of a Stage IV Breast Cancer Patient

    September 20, 2018

    By: Leah Taylor Before being diagnosed with cancer, I could not fathom what it would be like to live with cancer. I had preconceived notions about it. Even with an aunt being diagnosed with cancer when I was fourteen, I lived so far from her that her experience wasn’t on my screen. My concept of cancer was heavily influenced by…

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    BREAST CANCER,  COMMUNITY,  MALE BC,  MEN GET BC

    Stand Up For Your Beliefs

    September 8, 2018

      By: Steve Del Gardo For the last several years, well mostly the last 5 years, I have read many articles, posts on social media on how people are imposing their beliefs on others when it involves cancer. Telling us how to use certain words to describe our cancer journey or how we should feel. Telling us not to use…

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  • BODY POSITIVE,  BREAST CANCER,  FLAT CLOSURE NOW,  LIFE AFTER BREAST CANCER

    Life As a Flat Woman

    August 1, 2018

    I love having no breasts! 5 words that I never in all my 56 years thought that I’d think, let alone put down on paper.

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    BREAST CANCER,  MALE BC,  MEN GET BC

    Reinventing Yourself After Cancer: What is Your Passion?

    July 29, 2018

       By: Steve Del Gardo It has been 5 ½ years since I have been diagnosed with breast cancer and since then I have been advocating for my cancer foundation, Protect The Pecs, in an effort to raise awareness about male breast cancer. It hasn’t been easy but yet I have found it has been rewarding in knowing that the message…

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  • BREAST CANCER,  LIFE AFTER BREAST CANCER,  MALE BC,  RECLAIMING MY BODY

    The Pitfalls of Dating After Cancer

    June 19, 2018

      By: Steve Del Gardo Dating after cancer? As one man to another, one breast cancer survivor to another, let me tell you: It’s been awful. After my cancer journey was over, I waited three years to get back in the game, because I was taking Tamoxifen and it had several side effects that wouldn’t work well with dating. You…

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    BREAST CANCER,  BREAST CANCER AWARENESS

    And So It Begins – The First Hurry Up & Wait Cycle

    April 28, 2018

    By: Evidence Based NP October 4, 2017 – Approximately 4 weeks ago, as I was showering, I felt that weird sensation that something was strange with my right outer breast.  There was no lump or definitive change.  Just a weird tenderness I never felt before.  I was super busy with work trying to prove my current position could be profitable…

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  • BREAST CANCER,  COMMUNITY,  MALE BC,  MEN GET BC

    This Mundane World of Ours

    April 25, 2018

    By: Ambrose Kirkland We live in a world where people simply seem to forget things so easily now a day.  They’ve become so mundane about life. No glory, gore or guts is just another day for most people. We, meaning someone like me, a man who was diagnosed with breast cancer, our world, and our lives simply change. Being diagnosed…

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