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Questions for ASCO — on Tamoxifen, ATLAS and aTTom
On Sunday in Chicago, oncologists and others at the plenary session of the annual ASCO meeting will be talking about an abstract that matters a lot to women with breast cancer. It’s a study on...
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Birth of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance
This week marks 11 years since my breast cancer diagnosis. My feelings are mixed. On the one hand, I’m keenly aware, and constantly appreciative, of the fortune of being alive and, as far as I know...
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A Theoretical Note to My Students, On a Breast Cancer Case and Future Learning
Last week my students – who are, necessarily, abstracted here – studied breast cancer. How the course goes is that we meet in a small group and, each week, work through a case by Problem Based...
View ArticleWhy I Like the (Absurd) Dancing in the OR Video
Last Thursday I was struck by a video of a woman dancing in the O.R. The Huffington Post lifestyle editor called it awesome. “Deb’s Flash Mob” lasts 6 minutes and 14 seconds. The scene takes place in...
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More on Mammography, Breast Cancer, Misleading Arguments, Emotion and Women’s...
It’s a holiday week. But when this morning’s paper delivered yet another op-ed by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, citing (and breaking an embargo on) yet another, misleading and manipulative two-author analysis...
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Reading Lisa
flower image, from Lisa Bonchek Adams For this week, I refer my readers to the generous, telling blog of Lisa Bonchek Adams, a woman who is 44 years old and lives with Stage 4 breast cancer. She has...
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Shirley Temple Made It Easier to Talk About Having Breast Cancer
If a former film star held a press conference today about having breast cancer, she would hardly make history by doing so. Unless she were exceptionally young or famous for her gorgeous body, a...
View ArticleJAMA Review on Mammography Points to the Need for Better Ways of Advise Women...
— It’s hard to argue with the findings and conclusions of a new paper in JAMA put forth by Drs. Lydia Pace and Nancy Keating, both physicians with public health degrees and appointments at...
View ArticlePalbociclib Appears to Prolong Progression Free Survival in Women with...
Yesterday researchers at the annual AACR meeting announced the results of a clinical trial of a new drug with activity in some forms of breast cancer. Palbociclib (PD-0332991), a pill developed by...
View ArticleGet Cancer. Lose Your Job?
Let’s start with this fact: If you are employed and get a breast cancer diagnosis, it’s less likely you’ll be working at your job four years later. A newly-published study of women in Los Angeles and...
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