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- RC280.B8.M39.1 - Organizing the Breast Cancer and Integrative Medicine Conference
Carolene Marks and Sandra Stark - Healing Choices,Bridging Communities: Breast Cancer and Integrative Medicine
http://www.cancerlynx.com/conferenceorganize.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.M69.1 Nancy Rules
Ernest MacGillivray and Elizabeth Hamilton - To the rules I would add that the three essential ingredients for our success were: a. Empowerment (the patient) b. Advocacy (caregivers can do this, but see rule 4 and 5) c. Humour (the gods have a sense of humour, so should we)
http://www.cancerlynx.com/nancyrules.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.M71.1 Physical Therapy for Post Breast Surgery Pain Syndrome
Francine Manuel, RPT and Gerald Hirschberg, MD - Physical therapy modalities can be used in conjunction with medications to help alleviate post breast surgery pain syndrome.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/paintherapy.html
Link added 2006-05-13; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.M71.2 - Post Breast Therapy Rehabilitation Exercises
Francine Manuel, RPT and Lisa Glassberg (Demonstrator) - The following exercise program will help initiate
your recovery. You can begin exercising as soon as you have permission
from your physician
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/breastexercise.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.M71.3 - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome: The Physical Therapist's Perspective
Francine Manuel, RPT and Gerald Hirschberg, MD -
Early restoration of range of motion to the shoulder is important to prevent a frozen shoulder or shoulder/hand syndrome. These two entities can cause pain separate from the neurogenic syndromes resulting from invasive node dissections. Physical therapy modalities can be used in conjunction with medications to help alleviate post breast surgery pain syndrome.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/physicalpain.php
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 -
RC280.B8.M90.1 - Computer Usage With Post Breast Cancer Therapy Pain
J.C. Murray, RN, BSN - Since my bilateral mastectomy nine weeks ago, reaching for the computer mouse or keyboard seem to be the absolute worst positions for me when it comes to shoulder and arm pain.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/computerpain.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.M216.1 - Breast Cancer Early Detection Program (BCEDP)
Shirley McKenzie, RN, OCN - Alta Bates Breast Cancer Early Detection Program (BCEDP)
http://www.cancerlynx.com/bcedp.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 -
RC280.B8.M250.1 - Is Metastatic Breast Cancer A Chronic Disease?
The Masked Patient -
Chronic implies that it will be a long-term struggle and those that don't have the luxury of long term survival may be thought of as not measuring up to some arbitrary standard...advanced breast cancer can and does cause death rather quickly, treated vigorously or untreated
http://www.cancerlynx.com/chronic.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.M394.1 - Frequently Asked Questions about Tamoxifen
Sharon Mitchell, PharmD, UCSF & Robert Ignoffo, PharmD, Clinical Professor UCSF - The hormone, estrogen, enters many normal cells
including mammary (breast) cells and signals growth and multiplication.
In breast cancer, this growth is accelerated. Tamoxifen is an
anti-estrogen
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/tamoxifen.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.N126.1 - True Heroes
Leah Neher - So when my mother was unexpectedly diagnosed with breast cancer, that was when my own sweaty grip of the bar let loose...Every piece of my being seemed uncontrollably lost in my mind, but it wasn't until things got much more serious did I understand what I was trying to grasp onto!
http://www.cancerlynx.com/truehero.html
Link added 2008-11-15;
- RC280.B8.P117.1 - There Is No Cure for Breast Cancer
Karolen I. Paularena - Unfortunately, the pink ribbons and the smiling faces are only part of the story. Each year about 40,000 unlucky women die of breast cancer. That means that over one out of every five women diagnosed with this illness will not be a survivor.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/nocure.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08
- RC280.B8.Q52.1 What Causes Breast Cancer
Debbie Quigley-Keats -
I do not see how they can tell us that to reduce the risk of getting breast cancer all we need to do is follow this simple plan and we won't get it, considering they do not have a clue what causes it in the first place.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/whatcausesbc.html
Link added 2008-11-03; - RC280.B8.R32.1 Bob's Breast Cancer
Bob Riter -
Everyone is stunned when first diagnosed with breast cancer... Being a 40 year old male, breast cancer was somewhere behind being hit by an asteroid on my list of worries.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/malebreastcancer.html
Link added 2006-09-06; reviewed 2008-10-08 -
RC280.B8.R32.2 - Do not ask about my "battle", ask about me
Bob Riter - I am often referred to as a survivor. If I were to die, my obituary might well read, Bob lost his long and courageous battle with breast cancer.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/askme.html
Link added 2006-08-30; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.R32.3 - A Very Brief History of the Breast Cancer Advocacy Movement
Bob Riter - It is not OK to have breast cancer. We need to stop it from happening. Women have the right to be active participants in their treatment decisions. Women with breast cancer can speak out as survivors rather than stay hidden as victims.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/breastadvocacy.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.R32.4 - Changes in the treatment of breast cancer since 1970
Bob Riter - Appreciate the progress made during the past 35 years treating breast cancer.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/change.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.R68.1 - Breast Cancer and Side Effects
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD - Information about breast cancer evaluation, side effects of treatments including sexual and cognitive dysfunction, osteoporosis, osteonecrosis, cardiovascular events, secondary cancers and recurrences and recommended guidelines for follow up.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/breastside.html
Link added 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.R116.1 - Talking to Your Medical Team About Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome (PBTPS)
Karen Ritchie, MD, Sarah Schorr, RN, Charles M. Dollbaum, MD, PhD, Alexandra Andrews, Jean Chan, BA, MA, SEd, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS - Recognition of Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome (PBTPS) by the medical profession is still in its early stages. PBTBS
is best treated as soon as possible, because it becomes chronic and more resistant to effective treatment when diagnosis and initiation of therapy is delayed. Many doctors are unaware of this problem because they have little experience in making the diagnosis, and in treating this syndrome. You may, therefore, need to take a somewhat proactive approach to educate your doctor or healthcare team about this problem, and to seek effective solutions from them.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/paintalk.php
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.R209.1 - Cancer Humor
Sharon Robbins - As the police officer walks up to the car to issue a speeding ticket, what does he see? A bald woman, wearing large earrings and nothing from the waist up except baggy tennis shirt. Clothing and hair and a bra filled with two silicon boobs are strewn all over the front seat
http://www.cancerlynx.com/cancerhumor.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.R209.2 - Dying to Be Heard
Sharon Robbins - There are now more graves from women who have died since 1991 from breast cancer than the total graves in Arlington Cemetery. Our doctors tell us that we don't have to worry about breast cancer until we are older. Is it acceptable to die just because we are over 50. I don't think so. I am not ready to die.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/grave.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-29 - RC280.B8.R209.3 - Confessions of a Cancer Queen
Sharon Robbins - Not only do I consider myself a Cancer Queen, I even have the tiara to prove it... I wear the tiara around the house when I feel like I need a boost and was even known to wear it for chemo from time to time
http://www.cancerlynx.com/queen.html
Link added 2008-10-29 - RC280.B8.R209.4 - Sadie, Sadie, Dying Lady
Sharon Robbins - You know Sadie. We all do. Every family has a Sadie. She is the woman who rolls right from one physical problem to another. If you dare to ask, How are you, be prepared to cancel anything else you had planned for the next hour or so. She can immediately recite every drug she takes, every test result, the entire history of her ailments.and will at the drop of a hat.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/sadie.html
Link added 2008-10-29
- RC280.B8.S3.1 - The Falling
Aimee Kristine Shaw - I store my breasts in a box at night. Left one, right one, upside down one. Sometimes upside down for days at a time.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/shaw.html
Link added 2008-11-17; - RC280.B8.S10.1 - Bone Dry
Angela M. Sissons, PhD - Hormonal treatment they call it, for systemic breast cancer. But its side effect is a plunge into wasteland.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/bonedry.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 -
RC280.B8.S10.2 - Early Detection Is Not a Cure
Angela M. Sissons, PhD - You know what early detection means to me? Just living longer with the knowledge that you have breast cancer.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/earlynotcure.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.S173.1 - MRM Nerve Damage
Norma Steele - For a year I complained to every doctor that I saw about this constant pain I had
http://www.cancerlynx.com/mrmpain.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.S196.1 - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome (PBTPS)
Sabrina Selim, MD, Richard Shapiro MD, E. Shelley Hwang, MD and Ernest Rosenbaum, MD -
Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome (PBTPS) depends of the characteristics, duration and location of pain. It is defined as
typical neuropathic pain and associated symptoms numbness, dysesthesia, edema, allodynia located in the chest wall, axilla, arm, or shoulder of
the surgical side, and persists beyond the typical 3 month healing period.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/neuropathicpain.php
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.S199.1 - Someone Missing
Sandi Spivey -
There's someone missing here today, Who climbed the steps and held the rose,In a sea of pink, racing toward an elusive cure. But our deeds did not undo the plan, And in the end, our greatest gifts were simply love and kindness
http://www.cancerlynx.com/missing.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.S200.1 - Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation Patient Advocate Program
Sandi Stanford - The Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation's Patient Advocate Program is designed to increase the dissemination of the latest breast cancer research findings from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium to advocates throughout the United States and other countries. This is accomplished by breast cancer advocates applying for a scholarship to attend the SABCS.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/alamo.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.S205.1 - Post Mastectomy Syndrome
Sarah Schorr, RN, BSN - I have had constant burning pain in my chest, scar area and under my armpit radiating all the way to my left back
area.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/postmastectomy.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.S246.1 - Mastectomy Pain Advice
Wendy Sheridan -
A small percentage of surgical patients awaken with pain from nerve damage. If this isn't recognized, taken seriously and treated aggressively right away it can become chronic.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/mastectomyadvice.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2010-08-07 - RC280.B8.S296.1 - Solving the Mystery - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome
Heather Stringer - Roughly 15 to 30% of women develop some form of Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome (PBTPS) after a modified radical mastectomy with axillary lymph node dissection, and a smaller percentage can develop the syndrome after less invasive breast cancer therapies such as lumpectomy and radiation therapy. Yet it's common for these women to find little sympathy or knowledge of the subject when they talk to their oncologists, radiation therapists, primary care doctors, or surgeons.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/painpbtps.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.T332.1 - New Hormonal Therapy - the Aromatase Inhibitors
Debu Tripathy, MD - Manipulating the function of hormones, particularly estrogen has long been a useful tool in treating breast cancer
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/aromatase.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08
- RC280.B8.V80.1 - Amazons Marching for the Cure
Herman Van Elsacker - I am thinking of all of you as Amazons. It is not only that many of you will be look-a-likes, the right fighting spirit is there as well
http://www.cancerlynx.com/amazonsmarch.html Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08
- RC280.B8.W34.1 -Frequently Asked Questions About Breast Cancer
WomanKind Breast Center at St. Marys - Frequently Asked Questions About Breast Cancer from WomanKind Breast Center at St. Mary's Medical Center
http://www.cancerlynx.com/breastfaq.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.W188.1 - Overview Of The Sentinel Lymph Node Concept
Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS -
Sentinel Lymph Node mapping has revolutionized the care of patients with melanoma, and more recently, breast cancer patients as
well
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/sentinelnode.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.W188.2 - Overview Of The Sentinel Lymph Node Concept
Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS -
Sentinel Lymph Node mapping has revolutionized the care of patients with melanoma, and more recently, breast cancer patients as well
http://www.cancerlynx.com/sln.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.W188.3 - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome Information Handout
Robert Wascher, MD, FACS, Ernest Rosenbaum, MD, Alexandra Andrews, WM, C harles M. Dollbaum,MD, PhD, Karen Ritchie, MD, Sarah Schorr, RN, BSN, Francine M anuel, RPT, Jean Chan, BA, MA, SEd, Richard Shapiro, MD - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome (PBTPS) remains an underreported-yet often debilitating-consequence of breast cancer therapy. PBTPS is estimated to affect 10 to 30% of women who have had breast cancer surgery. Because PBTPS is not well understood by many physicians, breast cancer patients are often not advised about this risk prior to surgery, or the risk 05 be otherwise minimized. Subsequently, many patients unexpectedly experience chronic pain and other serious sensory disturbances that detract from their quality of life.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/pbtpsinfo.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 -
RC280.B8.W188.4 - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome Handout
Robert Wascher, MD, FACS, Ernest Rosenbaum, MD, Alexandra Andrews, WM, Charles M. Dollbaum,MD, PhD, Karen Ritchie, MD, Sarah Schorr, RN, BSN, Francine Manuel, RPT, Jean Chan, BA, MA, SEd, Richard Shapiro, MD - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome (PBTPS) remains an underreported-yet often debilitating-consequence of breast cancer therapy. PBTPS is estimated to affect 10 to 30% of women who have had breast cancer surgery. Because PBTPS is not well understood by many physicians, breast cancer patients are often not advised about this risk prior to surgery, or the risk 05 be otherwise minimized. Subsequently, many patients unexpectedly experience chronic pain and other serious sensory disturbances that detract from their quality of life.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/pbtpshandout.php
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.W188.5 - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome Information Handouts
Robert Wascher, MD, FACS, Ernest Rosenbaum, MD, Alexandra Andrews, WM, Charles M. Dollbaum,MD, PhD, Karen Ritchie, MD, Sarah Schorr, RN, BSN, Francine Manuel, RPT, Jean Chan, BA, MA, SEd, Richard Shapiro, MD -
Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome (PBTPS) remains an underreported-yet often debilitating-consequence of breast cancer therapy. Because PBTPS is not well understood by many physicians, breast cancer patients are often not advised about this risk prior to surgery, or the risk may be otherwise minimized. Subsequently, many patients unexpectedly experience chronic pain and other serious sensory disturbances that detract from their quality of life.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/pbtpsinfo.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08
- RC280.B8.W188.6 - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome Information Handout Page 1
Robert Wascher, MD, FACS, Ernest Rosenbaum, MD, Alexandra Andrews, WM, Charles M. Dollbaum,MD, PhD, Karen Ritchie, MD, Sarah Schorr, RN, BSN, Francine Manuel, RPT, Jean Chan, BA, MA, SEd, Richard Shapiro, MD -
Page 1 of Handout about Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome (PBTPS) in pdf
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/pbtpspage1.pdf
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08
- RC280.B8.W188.7 - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome Information Handout Page 2
Robert Wascher, MD, FACS, Ernest Rosenbaum, MD, Alexandra Andrews, WM, Charles M. Dollbaum,MD, PhD, Karen Ritchie, MD, Sarah Schorr, RN, BSN, Francine Manuel, RPT, Jean Chan, BA, MA, SEd, Richard Shapiro, MD -
Page 2 of Handout about Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome (PBTPS) in pdf
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/pbtpspage2.pdf
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08
- RC280.B8.W188.8 - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome Information Handout
Robert Wascher, MD, FACS, Ernest Rosenbaum, MD, Alexandra Andrews, WM, Charles M. Dollbaum, MD, PhD, Karen Ritchie, MD, Sarah Schorr, RN, BSN, Francine Manuel, RPT, Jean Chan, BA, MA, SEd, Richard Shapiro, MD -
Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome remains an underreported-yet often debilitating-consequence of breast cancer therapy. PBTPS is not well understood by many physicians and breast cancer patients are often not advised about this risk prior to surgery, or the risk may be otherwise minimized.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/pbtpshandout.php
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08
- RC280.B8.W188.9 - Post Breast Therapy Pain Syndrome: A Surgeon's Perspective
Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS -
Additional factors linked to breast cancer-associated chronic pain syndromes include polyneuropathies caused by chemotherapy and radiation therapy, which may be additive to impairments caused by
surgery
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/surgerypain.php
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.W188.10 - Post Mastectomy Pain Syndromes: A Surgeon's Perspective
Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS -
The incidence of chronic pain syndromes following breast cancer treatment has been estimated to occur in 20-25% patients undergoing axillary (armpit) dissection, with or without mastectomy, and appears to correlate with the extent of axillary surgery.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/mastectomypain.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.W188.11 - Minority Women, Breast Cancer & Hormone Replacement Therapy
Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS -
A significant and unprecedented decrease in the incidence of breast cancer appears to be ongoing in the wake of the dramatic reduction in the use of hormone replacement therapy medications.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/hrt.html
Link added 2008-10-30; - RC280.B8.W188.12 - Lymphedema After Breast Cancer Treatment
Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS - Patients with arm lymphedema, following breast cancer treatment, may experience considerable swelling (edema), heaviness, stiffness and discomfort of the affected hand and arm. With surgical removal of armpit lymph nodes by the surgeon, or by radiation therapy to the armpit area, the delicate network of lymphatic vessels that return excess tissue fluid back to the heart can become obstructed. Obesity, high blood pressure (hypertension) may be significant risk factors for lymphedema.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/breastlymph.html
Link added 2008-11-30; - RC280.B8.W195.1 - Call to Action
Ruth Wolf - Hold health plans accountable for inappropriate denials of care
http://www.cancerlynx.com/call.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-10-08 - RC280.B8.W94.1 - Stage IV Breast Cancer
Womens Cancer Resource Center - Life looks so much different angry - angry at the lack of funding and attention given to breast cancer. Why isn't someone doing something about this...
http://www.cancerlynx.com/stageIV.html
Link added 2008-11-16; - RC280.B8.W541.1 - Swim a Mile For Women with Cancer
Womens Cancer Resource Center - WCRC offers its clients a multi-lingual lending library, informal peer-led support groups, as well as information on alternative and individualized treatment options. Women who take advantage of these free resources are empowered to make informed decisions that are right for them
http://www.cancerlynx.com/wcrcswim.html
Link added 2008-11-15;
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