Breast Cancer from a personal perspective, a diary written to cope with my Mom's breast cancer

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from a personal perspective

Breast cancer even sounds scary. Perhaps it should be called beast cancer. Women fear to hear those words and even delay seeing their doctor when they find a lump.

Last month my mother had surgery on her ankle. It'd been bothering her for years. Finally a doctor found that she had a torn tendon. While she was having medical tests in preparation for the tendon-repair surgery, a routine mammogram was done.

You've probably heard the complaint; "My feet are killing me." In this case, my Mom's feet saved her life.

The mammogram came back with a suspicious looking spot. More tests were done: a sonogram, more x-rays, and finally a biopsy. This test was positive for cancer.

She could not feel a lump. If it hadn't been for the mammogram, she'd have no clue that she had breast cancer. By the time a woman can feel a lump, she has had breast cancer for ten years according to Susan Love's The Breast Book.

I perseverate the thought; "My mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer." I don't know that this fact as sunk in yet. I lost a dear friend to breast cancer just two years ago in September.

I'm keeping an online diary. This diary will be my main way of keeping in touch with everyone while I'm at my Mom's. If you'd like to subscribe to it, it's at Nporta.

Go to the http://www.nporta.com web site.

Click on "Sign Up" Button.

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You may be asked for a larger city for your city profile. All this means is that they don't have your zip code in their data base. Choose a nearby large city, and then the http://www.nporta.com page will give you the current local weather.
By this time you should be back to the start up screen at http://www.nporta.com.

Click on View Logs button.
It is on the left side of the screen down about middle of the page. It may be just below your screen view. You may have to scroll down.

Then click on the Family category.

Find Breast Cancer in the list.

Click on subscribe

Then my diary will open and you can read it.

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Breast Cancer Links

Susan Love, M.D., a foremost surgeon in the treatment of breast cancer and the author of The Breast Book. I've read this book and highly recommend it.
Faces of Breast Cancer Gallery, many women, young and old, are dying from breast cancer. Even men get breast cancer.
Journal of a Living Lady Nancy Kelly writes an encouraging personal account of her Stage 4 breast cancer. Her orginal site was "Journal of a Dying Lady".
National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, resources, support groups, clinical trials, news releases, workshop and conferences calendar. E-mail reminder to schedule your next breast exam.
Breast Cancer, Pamela's log about her mother's breast cancer, her diagnosis, treatment, and outcome.
Help Fight Breast Cancer: sponsors Donate Free Mammograms when you click on the pink button.

Cancer Treatment

Columbus Regional Medical Center, community cancer care, map, medical oncology, symptom management, clinical trials, cancer registry, and other locations throughout Indiana.
Indiana University Medical Center School of Medicine is widely recognized for its clinical excellence in cancer, medical and molecular genetics, cardiology and pediatrics.
The Ida and Joseph Friend Cancer Resource Center at the University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF) will send literature on specific cancers.
Oncolink, teaching hospital site maintained by the University of Pennsylvania, features the Survival Bible, menus, support, personal experiences, causes, clinical trials, global resources, a cancer FAQ (frequently-asked questions), symptom management, financial issues, and book reviews.
MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, in Houston, patients, caregivers, and cancer professionals may all find information here. Featured on NBC Nightly News, and named the top cancer center in the nation by U.S. News and World Report in July, 2000.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York rated second.
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland rated third.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota rated fourth.
Medical Center at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina rated fifth.
University of Chicago Hospitals in Illinois rated sixth.
Complete List of ratings for best cancer treatment hospitals according to the US News and World Report.

Cancer Institute

National Cancer Institute, a U.S. government agency presenting information about types of cancer, treatments, clinical trials, risk factors, publications, reports, statistics, and health disparities.
Cancer Information Service 1-800-4-CANCER, a free service of the National Cancer Institute providing up-to-date and accurate cancer information, available in English and Spanish.

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