Cancer Truth Notes: #109

Cancer Truth Note: #109 Cancer screenings need to start earlier, not later.  This is a universal challenge. My friends in the colorectal cancer world were in Washington D.C. last week telling their stories and seeking changes in the guidelines to lower the screening...

Cancer Truth Notes: #108

Cancer Truth Note: #108 Black women have a 40% higher breast cancer mortality rate than white women. Priority needs to be put on closing this healthequity gap. It is a fact that black women are experiencing more aggressive breast cancers at younger ages resulting in...

Cancer Truth Notes: #107

Cancer Truth Note: #107 Cancer is no longer the death sentence it is believed to be. A 2023 report shows a 33% decrease in the cancer death rate since 1991, with an estimated 3.8 million cancer survivors living due to better screening and treatment options available.*...

Cancer Truth Note: #106

Cancer Truth Note: #106 Morning person or night owl? Navigating cancer or illness may shine a light on your natural preferences.   I have always been a night owl. I come by it pretty honestly. My grandmother worked the 4pm to midnight audit shift in a bank for nearly...

Cancer Truth Notes: #105

Cancer Truth Note: #105 COVID-19 and chemo look different on everyone. While there is a set of expectations no one can be sure what applies to them until they experience it.  When I was diagnosed with HER 2+ breast cancer everyone said after surgery you will need...

Cancer Truth Notes: #104

Cancer Truth Note: #104 COVID-19 provided an opportunity for everyone to better understand how to protect others when we do not feel well. Something cancer survivors were already aware of. Learn from it!  Back in January of 2018, shortly after we returned from Disney...