That's what a nurse told my wife and me after my wife was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer.
People often experience a wide range of emotions with breast cancer, and these can change with different stages in the journey. What might you or a loved one expect at the time of diagnosis, during treatment, and on to survivorship?
If you're facing a major illness or stressful life change, you don't have to go it alone. A support group can help. Find out how to choose the right one.
Today is the day. I am a member of the surgical team who will take care of you -- the team that will remove your breast to treat the cancer that has tried to make a home in your body. We all have our role today, and the world would see yours to be the "patient." I see it as something more: a powerful gift to us.
Resilience expert Linda Graham offers three guided breathing practices as part of the Mindful@Home series.
Few people think of gardening as exercise...it might be the perfect exercise when it comes to breast health, because it makes a positive impact on almost every controllable breast cancer risk factor.
My cancer diagnosis gave me life. Something designed to sideline me, actually turned out to be my gift.
How are you doing? In the midst of a global pandemic, it’s okay for your answer to be “not so good.” Dealing with the spread of the novel COVID-19 can be stressful. You may now be working from home while also caring for and homeschooling children or worried about the health of a loved one.
For the immunocompromised and those with disease, social distancing and uncertainty are a way of life. Daily walks, gratitude and dancing help.
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