1/15/03: Musa Mayer summarizes
presentations at the
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The Symposium
is the largest annual medical conference dedicated solely to
research on breast cancer.
The NABCO Recurrence Project
features a tool for making treatment decisions, links to
community and support, information on clinical trials, and many
other resources. Author-advocate Musa Mayer contributed to the
site.
If you are keeping up with all breast cancer research,
ACOR (Association of Cancer Online Resources) now has a
search feature to scan the MedLine literature
for recent additions in a
particular disease type. For recent articles, it's easier than
searching MedLine because you don't have to go in and set search
limits/dates.
Oncologist-therapist team Bill & Susie Buchholz, authors of
Live
Longer, Live Larger
give tools to patients for thriving with cancer:
Keeping Current with New and
Experimental Treatments. Thankfully, treatments are continuing to
evolve. Treatments with greater efficacy and/or fewer side effects are
constantly being tested. This article describes how to keep up with
improving treatments that might help you.
Testing, Testing...Playing the Waiting
Game. Patients share their experiences and coping techniques for
those times when waiting to have tests performed and getting the results
seems endless.
Living the Patient Role: "I Just Hate
to Ask." Do you find it difficult to ask friends and family for the
help your illness makes necessary? The loss of total self-reliance is hard
for most patients coping with metastatic breast cancer. The article
discusses the feelings associated with needing help, and how relationships
are affected.
Dealing with the Ups and Downs of
Illness. Through the stories of ten women honest enough to tell the
truth about their emotions during crises in their illness, it becomes clear
that, however difficult this journey, there are paths that lead through it
and hands to hold along the way.
