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Jo-Ann Campbell is suing her former employer, IntelliSoft Group of Nashua, a software company, because she says after her diagnosis of breast cancer they made the work environment uncomfortable — and then they fired her. According to the lawsuit, Campbell said Mary D’Amelio, the wife of the company’s chief executive officer, John D’Amelio, told her [...]
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Australian pop star and breast cancer survivor Kylie Minogue has lost her close friend and chauffeur Nigel McCarroll to cancer. McCarroll supported Minogue through her cancer struggles into cancer survivorship. Attending the funeral, she laid a wreath in the shape of his favorite Audi car at the crematorium service, according to Movie & Entertainment News [...]
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Britain’s television and radio fitness guru Diana Moran recently shared her breast cancer experience in an interview with BBC News. Back in the 80′s, Moran led a national campaign for health and fitness with a program called Get Britain Fit. She gained the nickname Green Goddess for her trademark green leotards. When she was diagnosed [...]
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A study led by scientists at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center found that women who developed endometrial, or uterine, cancer had a one in fifty chance of having an inherited mutation that could lead to high risk of other cancers. Those that have the inherited mutation called Lynch syndrome have a higher risk [...]
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Roy Thayers has experienced death up close, as he was caregiver for his first wife as she battled cancer — he knows what it is like to watch someone fight for their life — and he was there when she lost her life to cancer. Thayers, who at the age of 77 lives alone, was [...]
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FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered is a nonprofit organization for women with increased risk of cancer due to family history and genetic status, and for members and families in which BRCA mutation may be present. You can find information on risk management, health care, advocacy and also join in on a chat line [...]
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I will be honest. After a double mastectomy left my chest mutilated and scarred, I worried if I would be physically attractive to a man after breast cancer surgery. It’s not that I think men are shallow, it had more to do with all that cancer was taking away in my life, and I was [...]
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Lance Armstrong sat down with ABC News This Week’s George Stephanopoulos to talk about RAGBRAI — the politics of cancer research funding — and bringing the issues of cancer back as a national priority and into the hearts and minds of the American people. At this point in time, concerning cancer as an epidemic that [...]
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On August 17, My Cancer Place is hosting a teleconference with Dr. Bernie Siegel who will be discussing how to be an exceptional cancer patient and the healing journey of a cancer survivor. Listeners will be able to call in and ask questions. Siegel, who prefers to be called Bernie, one of the world’s foremost [...]
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Roger Ebert, movie critic for the nationally syndicated television show Ebert & Roeper, had surgery in June to remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland. At the time, Ebert, who is 63, and a three-time thyroid cancer survivor, was quoted as saying, “This is not considered to be a life-threatening form of cancer, and [...]
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The Young Survival Coalition (YSC) is dedicated to the concerns and issues that are unique to young women that are diagnosed with breast cancer. My involvement with the YSC came shortly after I was diagnosed in 2001. My best friend Rita found the website and I immediately went on and read post after post that [...]
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