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.
Despite widespread awareness of breast cancer, women still know little about the surgery many have. Here’s the study that begs for more information for women.
Emmy Pontz-Rickert, a young mom who anchors our Web Page and whom some of you will recognize, is making the brave decision this week to remove her silicone breast implants, after causing her pain for two years. As she has, she is making the decision public so others will understand the realities of breast cancer surgery.
A new study finds that breast reconstruction rates are highest in women who live close to large-volume hospitals. Also, women who want tissue-based reconstruction are traveling further for surgery, it shows.
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.
New law requires doctors to fully inform women of breast cancer surgery options, from breast forms to reconstruction, and they should be told that reconstruction does not have to be done immediately. http://www.plasticsurgerypractice.com/2015/12/congress-passes-breast-cancer-patient-education-act/
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.
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.
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…
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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