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Managing Your Emotions When Cancer Treatment Is Done
- Managing Your Emotions When Cancer Treatment Is Done
The emotional stress that can follow breast cancer is very real. Learn more about what you can do about it.
- After Breast Cancer: Fitness and Nutrition Tips
Get back into exercise and adopt a diet rich in cancer-protective foods, which will boost your health and may even help prevent breast cancer from coming back.
- Advanced Breast Cancer and Your Job
Tips on how to handle your work life after an advanced breast cancer diagnosis.
- Getting Support During Advanced Breast Cancer
Ideas for getting the support and TLC that you need.
- Build Your Breast Cancer Community
Surrounding yourself with the right people is crucial to making it through this tough time.
- Breast Cancer Best Practices: Factors That May Affect Care
Learn how medical mistrust and other health conditions may impact the standard of care for women of color with metastatic breast cancer.
- Metastatic Breast Cancer and Advocating for Yourself
How to make sure you get the care and support you need.
- Research Needed to Reduce Racial Disparities
Learn how clinical studies can help change the course of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer in women of color.
- Racial Disparities in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Learn more about these differences, possible reasons why, and what can be done.
- Structural Racism and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Learn how discrimination enforced in housing, education, employment, health care, and more may play a role in health disparities.
- Family History and mTNBC: What to Know
Get the facts on how family history affects your risk of triple-negative breast cancer.
- Taking Control of Your HER2-Positive Breast Cancer in the Doctor's Office
Five ways to advocate for yourself when you have HER2-postiive breast cancer
- Making Mammograms More Accessible to Hispanic Women or Latinas
Spme Hispanic women or Latinas aren’t always able to get the breast cancer screening they need. Learn about programs to help change that.
- Common Chemicals: Breast Cancer Link?
Experts discuss whether chemicals in our environment have a connection to the risk of breast cancer.
- After Breast Cancer: Fitness and Nutrition Tips
Get back into exercise and adopt a diet rich in cancer-protective foods, which will boost your health and may even help prevent breast cancer from coming back.
- Are Transgender People at Risk of Breast Cancer?
Breast cancer can happen in people of any gender. Learn about what factors affect breast cancer risk in transgender people.
- Understanding What People Aren’t Saying
When you have advanced breast cancer, your loved ones may have some things on their mind. Here are some of the most common questions and concerns.
- Understanding Your Breast Cancer Pathology Report
When you find out that you have breast cancer, your pathology report is an important part of your medical record. Get to know what it means.
- Breast Cancer Hormone Therapy Side Effects? What Helps
Hormone therapy for breast cancer – such as tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors – can help prevent the cancer from coming back. If you have side effects, these things may help.
- Stay Well When Breast Cancer Chemo Dims Your Immune Defenses
If you’re going through chemo for breast cancer, these tips will help you avoid infection if you have neutropenia (low white blood cell counts).
- Mammography vs. Thermography: What to Know
Mammography is still the tried-and-true, go-to tool doctors and the FDA recommend for screening for breast cancer. Thermography isn’t recommended.
- Raise Your Voice About Your Metastatic Breast Cancer
Metastatic breast cancer is a complex diagnosis. Women of color have unique challenges. Learn how and when to speak up to get the care you need.
- Helping Others Understand Your Early-Stage HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
It can be hard to talk about your HER2-positive breast cancer, but it’s the only way to get the support you need. Here’s how to make it a little easier.
- Important Things to Consider to Best Treat Your Early-Stage HER2+ Breast Cancer
Your HER2-positive breast cancer is unique, and so is your treatment. An expert talks about what to think about as you make decisions about your care.
- I Am More Than My Medication
Susan Rahn is living a vibrant life with metastatic breast cancer.
- Tips for Navigating Metastatic Breast Cancer
Learn more about the emotional and financial support available to you.
- Why Breast Density Matters
Breast density is a lesser known risk factor for breast cancer, and it makes detecting cancer harder.
- How Will You Celebrate After Your Last Treatment?
How are you going to celebrate your last treatment? Answer a few quick questions to get the conversation started and share your story.
- What to Expect During A Wire-Guided Lumpectomy
Find out what to expect before a wire-guided lumpectomy for breast cancer.
- What to Know About Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping
Everything you need to know about sentinel lymph node mapping.
- What to Expect a Day After Chemotherapy
Everything you need to know about your chemotherapy treatment.
- What You Need to Know About the Drug Exemestane
Everything you need to know about the drug exemestane.
- A Young Woman’s Breast Cancer Survival Story
How She Emerged Stronger After Her Battle With Breast Cancer.
- Sally Yates Opens up About Breast Cancer
How Sally Yates Battled Breast Cancer.
- Managing Dry Skin After Chemotherapy or Radiation
Managing dry skin, a common side effect of chemo and radiation treatment.
- How Do You Talk To Your Kids About Your Illness?
How do you talk to your kids about breast cancer?
- How Breast Cancer Was Portrayed on A Million Little Things
Learn how A Million Little Things portrays men’s breast cancer.
- What You Need to Know About Abemaciclib
Learn everything you need to know about abemaciclib.
- 3 Tips for Swimming During Your Treatment
Learn what you should know about swimming during breast cancer treatment.
- Cording After Breast Cancer Surgery
Learn how to treat cording after breast cancer surgery.
- The Upside of Wearing a Prosthetic
Breast cancer prosthetics can be used so many ways that practically anyone can utilize them.
- Culturally Sensitive Program Launched for Asian Breast Cancer Survivors
A new study aims to see if a more culturally sensitive program will benefit Asian breast cancer survivors.
- Survival Increased for Some with Pembro in TNBC
Long-term results show increased survival rates after adding Pembro to treatment for triple-negative breast cancer.
- Exercising Before a Chemo Treatment
Learn what you need to know about exercising before your chemo treatment.
- How to Manage Loss of Appetite After Chemo
Learn tips to manage loss of appetite after chemo and how you can make sure to get the nutrients you need.
- A Reporter's Story Saved Her Life
Reporting on a story about a rare type of gene mutation that causes breast cancer may have saved Susan Berger's life.
- Illness Can Bring Your Family Closer
Having breast cancer isn't something anyone wants, but your family can come out of it closer in the end.
- Choosing a Reconstructive Surgeon
Before you choose a reconstructive surgeon, find out what to look for by using this checklist of questions.
- Custom Bra Fittings for Breast Cancer Survivors
Learn more about a boutique that restores confidence in breast cancer survivors with custom bra fittings.