The Breast Blog: Reviewing the book on my other site

Monday, April 23, 2007

Reviewing the book on my other site

As you've probably realized, I can't keep up with two sites!

So ... I'll review Cathy's book on Discussing Breast Cancer on Wednesday, April 25th!

1 comments:

anthropositor said...: Dear Karen,
So sorry to read of your struggles with cancer. But I am inspired by your attitude and spirit.

I recently was asked for some input from a woman on Skin Cell Forum by private message. This seems to happen every month or two now.

Although she gave me leave to publish our interchange on my blog or on the forum, I have not decided to do so. If I come to the conclusion that her particular problems are relevant to enough people, and my particular ideas are not too speculative, I may do so in the future.

What brought her to mind was that she was talking about issues which included monthly difficulties, early puberty and some breast difficulties not related to cancer.

A part of my advice to her was that she should get a base-line mammogram or some other diagnostic test like perhaps an MRI or CAT scan to include her breasts if she was getting one done for any other reason.

I may have erred however in telling her that it could perhaps wait a few years since she was only thirty-one. I think I will revise my advice.

It seems to me that we need more comfortable testing than mammograms are, particularly for women with unusualy tender breasts. I think it is one of the key reasons why so many women delay doing it.

I will try to drop back in on you to see how your struggle is going.; 7:17 PM

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