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WATCH: Why I Got A Preventive Mastectomy At 21

2013-05-16T14:56:32Z

Following Angelina Jolie's announcement on Monday that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy, Abby Huntsman hosted a HuffPost Live segment ...

Read more: Preventive Mastectomy, Generation Why, Ticking Time Bombs, Preventive Mastectomies, Preventive Mastectomy at 21, Breast Cancer, Rachel Joy Horn, Healthy Living News

Tracey Cleantis: Angelina Jolie: Goddess, Amazon, Woman

2013-05-16T12:55:38Z

Much is made over the material girl's multitudes of metamorphosis. For those of you too young to remember, I speak of Madonna. And, yes, the Divine M...

Read more: Cancer, Persephone, Breasts, Mythology, The Amazons, Greek Mythology, Breast Cancer, Angelina Jolie, Demeter, Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt, Amazonian-Women, Venus, Brangelina, Celebrity News

Sheryl Kraft: Why I Made The Same Choice As Jolie -- But For Different Reasons

2013-05-15T12:39:52Z

Angelina Jolie was not the only one to choose a prophylactic mastectomy. I did, too -- but for different reasons.. (Thank you, Angelina, for making it public. You've given me the courage to write about it for the very first time).

Read more: Angelina Jolie, Health Post50, Healthy Tissue, Reconstructive Surgery, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Prophylactic Mastectomy, Fifty News

Bonnie Fuller: Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy Revelation Will Save Women's Lives

2013-05-15T09:35:52Z

Angelina Jolie, you could have decided to be totally private about undergoing a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgeries. But that is not the woman you are.

Read more: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Breast Cancer, Women's Issues, Double Mastectomy, Angelina Jolie Mastectomy, Angelina Jolie Double Mastectomy, Celebrity News

Today, I Feel Like Angelina Jolie

2013-05-14T15:20:44Z

Allison Gilbert is feeling a lot like Angelina Jolie today.

Reading the film star’s Op-Ed piece in the New York Times this morning, about the de...

Read more: Oophorectomy, Nytimes Oped, Ovarian Cancer, Angelina Op-Ed, BRCA1 Mutation, Parentry, Brca Gene, Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer, Allison Gilbert, Double Mastectomy, Angelina Jolie Breast Cancer, Brca, Parents News

Jamie Lee Curtis: Freedom of Choice, Freedom of Privacy

2013-05-14T11:55:40Z

Angelina Jolie's revelation today, done with eloquence and dignity and grace, is remarkable both in its message and its import to the world of women. Pro-action.

Read more: Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer, Angelina Jolie Mastectomy, Masectomy, Women News

CNN Host: I Have Cancer

2013-05-14T06:53:44Z

ATLANTA (AP) — CNN anchor Zoraida Sambolin says she has breast cancer and is getting a double mastectomy.
Sambolin, who anchors CNN's...

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Rev. Chuck Currie: Why Judy Bright Supported Obamacare

2013-05-13T11:00:05Z

Like many nurse practitioners, my mother declined to work in the for-profit sector and instead devoted her life to public health. She believed strongly in the need for universal health care -- a cause she felt was a deeply moral issue.

Read more: Public Health, Peritoneal Cancer, Breast Cancer, Judy Bright, Medicare, National Council of Churches, Barack Obama, Obamacare, Religion and Politics, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Religion News

Aisling Carroll: The Experience I Wouldn't Have Gotten Through Without My Mom

2013-05-11T00:20:11Z

Instead of coaching athletes, she has spent the last several years coaching me as I've strived to get better, first from ovarian cancer at the age of 32, then from the autonomic nerve damage the life-saving chemo caused.

Read more: National Football League, Young Adult Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Mother's Day, San Francisco 49ers, Ireland, Motherhood, Breast Cancer, Irish, San Francisco, Mothers and Daughters, Women News

Cate Edwards: Defining Moments

2013-05-10T14:58:20Z

Every person has a timeline of their own life, made up of the big moments in it -- the personal bests and worsts that singe their memories. On my timeline, one of those worsts came on November 3, 2004, when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Read more: Mother-Daughter Relationship, Elizabeth Edwards Breast Cancer, Standup2cancer, Elizabeth Edwards, Breast Cancer, Mother's Day, John Edwards, Cancer, Mothers and Duaghters, Women News

Tory Zellick: 3 Mother's Day Gift Ideas for Mothers in Cancer Treatment

2013-05-08T14:20:21Z

Cancer is a diagnosis that affects the entire family, so try thinking outside the box this year. Instead of purchasing Mom a tangible gift, begin a new tradition of creating a new fond memory.

Read more: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Celebration, Mother's Day, Holiday Gifts, Mother's Day Gift Ideas, Gift Ideas for Cancer Patients, Fifty News

Tory Zellick: Rosanna Arquette Guides Me on Coping With Grief of Mother's Day

2013-05-06T13:50:58Z

For those who have lost a loved one, holidays can trigger grief. Mother's Day is particularly difficult for me, because I no longer have my mother here to physically spend the day with.

Read more: Meditation, Breast Cancer, Mother Daughter Relationships, Mother's Day, Grief, Dealing With Grief, Rosanna Arquette, Desperately Seeking Susan, Fifty News

Molly Lindquist: How I've Tried To Keep Life Normal For My Daughters

2013-04-29T13:33:53Z

For me, one of the scariest parts of my diagnosis with breast cancer was the challenge of keeping life as normal as possible for my two young daughters.

Read more: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Parents, Parents With Cancer, Parents-Moms, Explaining Cancer to Kids, Parenting With Cancer, Parents News

Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum: Beyond the Breasts and Straight to the Heart

2013-04-24T15:22:19Z

Women are made up of more than just breasts, a uterus, and a pair of ovaries. There is more to women's health than the care and cure of these three vital but non-comprehensive organs. We need to look beyond, to the forgotten whole woman, who is more than a sum of her parts.

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Dan Duffy: American Cancer X

2013-04-23T11:17:59Z

The one thing we have to make sure is that they don't change irreversibly. Cancer can take a lot physically. It can only take what we allow it emotionally. We are stronger than cancer. Even if it takes our life, we are STILL stronger than cancer.

Read more: Cancer Treatment, Cancer, American History X, Cancer Emotions, Cancer Side Effects, Cancer Diagnosis, Breast Cancer, Beating Cancer, Cancer Prognosis, Cancer Awareness, Generation Why, Healthy Living News

Jodi Lampert: George Bush Gave Me Breast Cancer

2013-04-18T15:09:50Z

Trust me, we are all just one left turn away from tragic events. Everyone. Blaming people is easy. Try to focus on what IS in your life, as opposed to what isn't. It's a waste of time and energy to miss those who are not there. And it's rude to those who are!!

Read more: Gilda Radner, Mindful Meditation, Breast Cancer, Jon Kabat-Zinn, WeSpark Cancer Support, Benjamin Center Cancer Support, George W. Bush, Healthy Living News

Michelle Pammenter Young: A Day in the Life of a Cancer Warrior

2013-04-18T08:03:03Z

It is day six past my chemo session and the side effects this time are by far worse than before. I had been told that the affects are cumulative and that each time you will feel worse, for longer, but well, quite frankly I guess I didn't want to believe it.

Read more: Cancer Warrior, Generation Why, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Healthy Living News

Peggy Nolan: The Horrible News I Received After My Divorce

2013-04-16T02:27:54Z

Who would I be without him defining who I was? How could I keep a marriage going that no longer had trust, no longer had commitment, and no longer had love?

Read more: Infidelity, Rebirth, Finding Myself, Breast Cancer, Divorce, Death of a Marriage, Child of Divorce, Divorce News

Dr. Elaine Schattner: Patenting Human Genes Harms People

2013-04-15T15:39:01Z

The Supreme Court's decision about today's case will either extend or crimp the capacity of patients, doctors, researchers and other biotechnology firms, to use information about the human body to detect and treat other illnesses in the future.

Read more: Association for Molecular Pathology, Medical Research, Genetic Testing, Biotech, Scotus, Myriad Genetics, Brca, Patent Law, Patients' Rights, Breast Cancer, Healthy Living Health News, Gene Patents, Supreme Court Gene Patent, Human Gene Patent, Healthy Living News

Seporah Raizer: Giving a Big Fat Finger to Cancer

2013-04-10T17:46:55Z

Once you've been diagnosed with breast cancer, the word "worry" takes on a life of its own. You worry about the treatment working, the cancer coming back, the cancer spreading, how you're supposed to live a "normal" life. You worry. But you live. Because you have to.

Read more: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Generation Why, Young People Cancer, Breast Cancer Survivor, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Healthy Living News

Tory Zellick: Family Caregivers Are Central to the Clinical Trial Experience

2013-04-09T11:19:14Z

The caregiver is critical to the success of a patient's participation in a clinical trial, because the caregiver is the closest and most constant observer of the patient.

Read more: Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical Industry, Breast Cancer, Caregiving, Cancer, Health Care, Health, Caregivers and Clinical Trials, Advice for Caregivers, Caregivers, Fifty News

Nancy Stordahl: BRCA1 and BRCA2 Gene Patent Debate Reaches the U.S. Supreme Court: Why Everyone Should Care

2013-04-08T13:28:55Z

This ongoing debate on gene patents boils down to one simple question: Should anyone, in this case Myriad Genetics, be allowed to patent human genes? For me this case is personal.

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Breast Cancer Photo Essay: Man documents his wife's brave battle with the disease

2013-03-27T13:00:58Z

When Reddit user freckledsmile posted a link to Angelo Merendino's photo essay of his wife Jennifer's battle with breast cancer, he moved even the mo...

Read more: Cancer Photo Essay, Living With Cancer, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Photos, Breast Cancer Photo Essay, Families and Cancer, Angelo Merendino, Women News

Seporah Raizer: Cancer Messed With the Wrong B*tch

2013-03-26T14:24:35Z

I was diagnosed with Stage 3 inflammatory breast cancer. I was 30 years old. I had no insurance. I was screwed.

Read more: Health Insurance Cancer, Generation Why, Breast Cancer, Youth Cancer, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Cancer, Young People Cancer, Cancer Waiting, Healthy Living News

10 Things You Didn't Know About Breasts

2013-03-26T08:29:53Z

By Corrie Pikul

They're always hanging around -- but most of us rarely give them a second thought. A science journalist exposes the impressive, eye...

Read more: Women's Health, Breastfeeding, Breast Health, Boobs, Florence Williams, Breast Cancer Facts, Breasts, Origin of Breasts, Breast Cancer, Breasts Facts, Own-Healthy, Breast, Breast Cancer News, OWN News