October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I wanted to do a little more than the average breast cancer awareness post. Here is my humble attempt. I've put this post together with; videos of survivors, an interview with Christina Applegate, early signs & symptoms, blogs of note, news, and links to informative support sites. If I've missed something (and I'm sure I have), please share the information with our readers in comments. If you take nothing else away from this post, please take this...

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. So, I thought I would start this post with something I wrote about ovarian cancer, over a year ago. The Sad Reality of Ovarian Cancer. Why It's Important To Know The Early Symptoms...

Cupcakes + a good cause = Fun + yum.

There was a lot of news coverage this week, about a court case of a family with a child who appeared to developed Autism after her childhood immunizations...I wondered how this might affect other families dealing with this devastating disease? Also in the blogs, is a petition that women can sign, supporting an end to drive-thru mastectomies. And end they should, this practice is a disgrace, as well as a travesty against women. And, my pet-peeve issue (Gardasil), is also in the news. Autism...

Girl, you're looking, fine tonight, and every guy has got you in his sights. What you're doing, with a clown like me, is surely one of life's little, mysteries When that song comes on the radio I think many of us end up humming along whether we realize it or not. And while I possibly have the one of the worst memories for music - I can't remember the lyrics to songs, the names of songs or who sings them - and even I knew who Jeff Healey was. No one who has ever seen him play live or on television could forget how his fingers flew over the guitar which he played piano-style on his lap. This past Sunday Healey's lost his battle with cancer. His battle began at the age of one when he was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes that caused him to lose his sight.

It was about 3am. I had just shuffled back to my hospital bed from the restroom. I needed a nurse’s aide to help me get re-situated in bed. I am a feisty, independent woman. I hate asking for help to go to bed. But I need to be propped up, and re-nested in this clumsy jumble of bedclothes and hospital equipment. A woman comes to help who seems to be in her mid-30’s. I comment about her lovely haircut, trying to get the focus off my clumsiness, my unappealingly infected legs. “Yeah, “ she says, “it grew back well after the chemo. I was relieved.”

I'm not sure how much we really needed a study to determine that uninsured people are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer too late to be treated successfully. In most cases, a person actually needs to see a doctor to be diagnosed with a disease. So, is anyone surprised to find out that poor, uninsured people, aren't going to the doctor?

We've been talking a lot about making healthy lifestyle changes since the New Year. If you are one of the millions that wants to become healthier in 2008, you may be interested in this program...

I was honored to be asked and participate in a phone conference this week on breast cancer, sponsored by LUNA and the Breast Cancer Fund, together they have established Pure Prevention. The call brought two nationally recognized environmental health experts, Dr.

I started writing this post to cover a new study on the benefits of using MRI for the diagnosis of breast cancer (full report). It's an important study, especially for women in a high risk category.