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  • people covering face and mouth of helpless woman
    BREAST CANCER,  Bullying,  COMMUNITY,  FLAT CLOSURE NOW,  FLATTIES UNITE

    Egoticity vs Authenticity

    July 27, 2020

    As for me - I've never met you, I'll be damned if I let you hurt anyone that way ever again.

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    Mia Curtiss
  • BREAST CANCER,  metastatic breast cancer

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

    October 22, 2018

    Thinking About Cancer Patient Safety October 20, 2018 By Leah Taylor Today’s edition of A Day in the Life of a Stage IV Breast Cancer Patient is me thinking about patient safety and three stories about this issue rather than the usual timeline. I saw a question asked by a cyber friend wondering what the “worst” thing that has happened…

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    Leeza Long
  • silver colored microphone
    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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    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,  Failed Reconstruction,  Unilateral Mastectomy

    A Glitch

    April 6, 2018

      By: Beatrice Compagnon On learning to live with a body you didn’t choose. “Don’t worry, it is just a little bit of cancer. We will get you better in no time.” These weren’t the words I expected to hear on my 37th birthday. Ok, it’s not invasive, stage zero — that should be easy to fix, right? No chemo,…

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  • old man holding flowers with his grandchild
    BREAST CANCER

    If You Harbor Body Hate and Body Love, Which Will You Feed?

    April 5, 2018

    Do you know the parable “The Tale of Two Wolves?” A grandfather is talking with his granddaughter. He tells her there are two wolves inside each of us which are always at war with each other. One of them is a good wolf, representing things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, representing things like greed,…

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