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November is writing month

Sun November 1, 2015

November is writing month. Before I started my PhD, I participated in NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. I sat down every morning and wrote stories relating to our…

Perplexed about not recommending clinical breast exams

Tue October 27, 2015

Navigating the new me

It is October - Breast Cancer Awareness Month - and with that comes pink ribbons, but also a lot of blog posts and public information announcements about breast cancer.…

Lifetime risks of breast cancer

Sat October 24, 2015

Emotional Journey

Ever wonder why, if one in eight women are at lifetime risk of getting breast cancer, that you don't know that many women with breast cancer? Unless, of course…

Decide who you trust

Mon October 12, 2015

chemo

A friend (Marie Ennis O’Connor) has asked me to blog about something that I’ve learned through my experiences with breast cancer. I went back through my blogs, looking for…

Patients 2.0 at #health2con

Mon October 5, 2015

Opinion

Yesterday I did a short presentation for a conference session titled Patients 2.0, which is part of the Health 2.0 conference. Since I wasn't given a lot of notice,…

Giving blood … one small vial at a time

Fri October 2, 2015

Opinion

During the Medicine X conference, the twitter stream lit up with calls to give blood. This is always a bit of a frustrating feeling - knowing you want to…

“we are all patients” … NOT #medx

Sat September 26, 2015

Emotional Journey

One of the comments that was made, and repeated several times on the first day of the Medicine X Ed conference I attended last week was "we are all…

Virtually Connecting at QUB ePatient Conference (#qubept)

Thu September 17, 2015

medx

After all the excited from the ALTC Conference in Manchester, I flew back to Belfast to attend a conference on ePatient - The medical, ethical and legal repercussions of…

There is harm in giving false numbers

Sat July 25, 2015

Opinion

This week, Ann did the footwork (thank you) and posted about a false statistics that has been made very popular within the breast cancer blogosphere. I must confess, that I…

15 Random things about me

Wed July 15, 2015

Opinion

In a post last week, Nancy challenged fellow cancer bloggers to write 15 random things about themselves. I think this is such a great way to help demonstrate how cancer…