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posted 07/07/2008, comments (3)

Living With Metastasis: Avastin - How Do We Decide If A Drug Is Worth the Cost?

On Sunday, the New York Times ran an interesting article on Avastin, a drug that has been mentioned to me several times, as the latest breakthrough in the fight against metastatic cancer. Avastin (the generic name is Bevacizumab) is made by Genentech and is very expensive. The article described how some are calling into question whether... Read more Chevron

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posted 07/03/2008, comments (2)

Dance then wherever you may be...

Hi all, hope you are well. I just returned from eight straight days of managing an annual meeting with three or four separate events daily and four or five hours sleep nightly. It's a ton of work, but well worth it to see everyone enjoying themselves and getting a lot of actual work done as an organization. I have to admit... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/23/2008, comments (2)

Chemotherapy in the Long Run: Treatment for BC Mets

Before I first started chemotherapy, in 2006, I attended an orientation session, in which, among other things, we were told that if we threw up on our clothes after treatment, we were to bring them in to the cancer centre to be incinerated. Chemotherapy is toxic, scary stuff. Now, as I wrote earlier in the week, not... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/16/2008, comments (4)

Dealing with Breast Cancer Recurrence: Chemotherapy the Second Time Around

I first went through chemotherapy from March to June of 2006. I did just six rounds, and it was about the hardest thing I have ever had to endure. I remember saying at the time, “I have to get through this and it has to work because I am never doing this again.” Well, I did end up having to do it again, just six... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/13/2008, comments (0)

Dealing with Breast Cancer Recurrence: Talking to Kids When the Cancer Returns

Telling my oldest son that I had cancer was very, very hard. Telling him that it had come back was even harder. S. was seven years old when I was first diagnosed. A couple of weeks before my surgery (right before I took a leave from my job) we sat down with him and, following the cancer centre social worker’s advice,... Read more Chevron

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