breast cancer screening Archives

Don’t say this to a friend with breast cancer

January 30, 2017 By Carol Cassara 22 Comments

It's hard to know what to say to a friend who's just heard a cancer diagnosis. Ronna Benjamin gets that--she has breast cancer and she's heard it all. So she's come up with a list of 17 things not to say to a friend with breast cancer. Ok, so you're wondering what exactly TO say, not what NOT to . . .

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See a lump, get it checked. Now.

October 4, 2012 By Carol Cassara 3 Comments

Matisse It was about 20 years ago when I found a lump in my breast. I went straight to see my beloved gynecologist, now retired, (I miss you, Dr. McN!) who sent me immediately to mammography and then, to a surgeon."I don't think it's cancer," the surgeon told me. "You're the wrong age and it just . . .

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