Stand Up For Yourself – It’s Your Body
March 14, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
If something doesn’t seem right, it’s not your right to stand up for yourself, it’s your responsibility. Your health is something that you need to take control of and long-gone are the days that “Doctor knows best.”
Doctors are human, they make mistakes. Nurses and other healthcare professionals do too. The problem is, in many professions mistakes don’t affect lives quite as directly as they do if someone in health care does.
Someone I know through the Internet brought this home the other day and the message is frightening. Although to err is human, when a doctor refuses to even consider that …read more
Maizy Grace and Retreat for Breast Cancer Survivors
February 19, 2008 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
How was your weekend people? Mine was just terrible, I was locked up inside the house. It has been raining non-stop the last week, including this weekend. A
t least on that front, my weekend just sucked. Otherwise, everything is good – great – in fact!
Meanwhile, I received the following email from Dianna McPhail (Designer of Maizy Grace):
Hello,
I want to tell you how much I like your website. I wish that when I had surgery I would have had a resource like this to go to.
I would like to encourage you to visit our website at www.maizygrace.com.
I am the …read more
Other Info Revealed by Breast MRI Will Change Treatment Plan
December 6, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
According to University of Florida surgeons, in about 20 percent of women with breast cancer who plan to undergo a lumpectomy, breast magnetic resonance imaging reveals important diagnostic information that alters their treatment plan.
Though nor routinely administered to breast cancer patients, MRI or magnetic resonance imaging has the following benefits:
can find additional cancerous areas in the breast that previously evaded detection
discover cancer in the opposite breast that standard imaging tests such as mammography and ultrasound missed
determine a tumor is actually larger than expected
Whatever is found from the MRI totally alters the treatment in these women with breast cancer.
According to Stephen …read more
Cancer Commentary Links 24-Oct-2007
October 24, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I am literally under a very bad weather. Meanwhile, I hope your enjoy and find informative, the following cancer links:
Heparanase Inhibitor, Potential Anti-Cancer Drug Candidate
Cancer Prevention, Diet and Functional Foods
Women Opting for Double Mastectomies
Breast Cancer Victims Subject to Hurtful Reactions
Post-Mastectomy Lingeries for Women: A Must Have Before Surgery
September 17, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Mastectomy must be a terrible procedure, just thinking about makes me feel bad. Breast cancer patients (and their oncologists) must do everything to prevent this procedure from happening.
But what if mastectomy is your only best option? Life must go on I guess and post-surgical lingeries must be the last of your worries, but something you’ll definitely think about at some point.
If you are scheduled for a mastectomy, you may want to check out the post-mastectomy lingeries for women manufactured by WearEase.
WearEase has products such as The Dawn Camisole — a feminine cotton camisole worn home from the hospital after a …read more




