Since I had the hysterectomy/BSO in July 2013, I have definitely felt side effects of cognitive decline. I describe these as losing my train of thought, basic forgetfulness and confusion, lower attention span, and most problematic – word finding (I cannot remember a word when I need it, although it might come to me days […]
In a world where too many women get breast cancer… In a world where women are forced to make hard decisions…. In a world where we choose between knowledge and…. In a world that is obsessed with boobs…. Ah, I might be on to something with that one. When my students write papers that begin with […]
The media sucks so often, and they suck the most when they dish out information that is misleading and can potentially kill people. And by media, I am pretty much referring to anyone these days who is writing about breast cancer risk and does not mention the population of those of us with BRCA mutations. […]
As I’ve mentioned before, I am BRCA2+ and my husband is BRCA1+. He inherited his gene mutation from his mother; her own mother died of breast cancer very young (I believe she was in her 50s). Now, his mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer for the third time, and this time it’s in her […]
Here is FORCE’s response to the recent article in AARP magazine in which Melissa Etheridge makes some completely ridiculous statements about BRCA testing and “turning on and off” BRCA mutations: Dear AARP Magazine Editors, This letter is in response to your article on “Sheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge Beat Cancer and Heartbreak” in the October/November […]
Oh geez, here I’m about to go again. I haven’t previously attend the #BRCA chat on Twitter. It’s at 9pm on Thursdays and that is just too late for this mama (usually that’s the time I’m falling asleep while watching Project Runway). But last night I could not resist since I knew, from the BRCA Commons Facebook […]
I seem to keep coming back to this, or maybe it keeps coming back to me? In May 2013, when Angelina Jolie published “My Medical Choice” in the New York Times in which she revealed that she had had a preventative double mastectomy due to her BRCA+ status, the world was shocked. Tons of previvors, among […]
