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Free Cleaning Help for Women in U.S., Canada during Chemotherapy

Just heard about this nonprofit that profits free household cleaning services for women in chemotherapy.  www.cleaningforareason.org

From its site: Cleaning For A Reason is a nonprofit organization that serves the United States and Canada. Our mission is to give the gift of free house cleaning for women undergoing treatment for any type of cancer. Our goal is to let these brave and strong women focus on their health and treatment while we focus on, and take away the worry and work of, cleaning their homes– free of charge. We have recruited over 1,200 maid services to donate free housecleaning to women who are undergoing treatment for cancer. Since 2006, our partner maid services have volunteered their time to clean for over 19,500 women – valued at over $5,500,000.

 

Donating Our Book to Others

We will donate  new or used books to non-profit organizations and programs serving under-insured and uninsured women with breast cancer.  Donation boxes will be available at all author events.  If you’d like, you can designate a program to receive your book and we can include your name on a a book plate inside the book. Email me for details.

 

Where to Get the Book

“Breast Cancer Surgery and Reconstruction: What’s Right for You,” can be ordered on Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.com/Breast-Cancer-Surgery-Reconstruction-Whats/dp/1442242620/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468107180&sr=8-1&keywords=breast+cancer+surgery. It is available in hardbound, kindle and paperback editions.

It also is available in many public libraries (if not in stock, ask for it through a lending library program) and Barnes & Noble’s site: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/breast-cancer-surgery-and-reconstruction-patricia-anstett/1123245854?ean=9781442242630

Ovarian Cancer Test Has Value Over Time, Study Says

CA 125 Test for Ovarian Cancer has use over time, long-awaited study shows.  A triple not a home run, one expert said. Here’s  the New York Times’ story on the study. Women with hereditary ovarian and breast cancer risk use the test as one important way to monitor themselves for cancer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/health/early-detection-of-ovarian-cancer-may-become-possible.html?_r=0

 

Women You Will Meet In Our Book

Two years ago this month, Emmy Pontz-Rickert, 24, of Ypsilanti Twp. Mich., found out she had breast cancer. She is one of the women we chose to be the face of our book, Breast Cancer Surgery & Reconstruction: What’s Right for You” to be published in June, 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield. Her story resonates here again. Emmy is the mother of a darling little girl, Grace, born this year. She is active in an African orphanage as well as in Michigan breast cancer causes, where she shares her story about breast cancer surgery and reconstruction issues so other women will benefit. Go Emmy.

Emmy Pontz-Rickert's photo.

Emmy Pontz-Rickert

In a few hours, I go in for my second mastectomy and the beginning of reconstruction. I have been down such a journey thus far, including other surgeries and c

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Black Women More Likely to Carry Breast Cancer Gene Mutations Causing Aggressive Tumors Among Women Under 50, Study Shows  

Young black women diagnosed with breast cancer are about twice as likely to have BRCA genetic mutations than non-Hispanic white women of similar age with breast cancer. The finding, from the largest U.S.-based study of its kind, was reported in the journal Cancer.
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