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There’s a lot of health information available on the internet these days. From personal blogs to online magazines to government websites and beyond, advice about your health is at every...

It has been my sixth hospitalization in four months when it finally happened. When I was not okay. Not even remotely close to okay. That hospitalization began like all the...

Sometimes, the advice you receive after a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming. You may find yourself wondering what tips are most important. However, after diagnosis, most people do...

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Here at AdvancedBreastCancer.net, we want to highlight all those affected by metastatic breast cancer. Through our community member spotlight interview series, we had the honor of hearing Cait's triple-positive invasive...

It is an unusual thing, to be thirty-seven years old and watch so many of your peers pass away, one after the other. I am reminded of my Grandmother. She...

So, each year after a single or double mastectomy unless you’re having reconstructive surgery my health provider offers the option to get a breast prosthesis. This year when I went...

Female breast cancer is most frequently diagnosed among women aged 55 – 74. The average age that women are diagnosed with breast cancer is 63. But, women under 40 account...

Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) is the second most common type of breast cancer. Meet Roxana, one of our community members who shares her IDC recurrence story. I was initially diagnosed...

A diagnosis of breast cancer can bring a lot of different emotions. It can also be challenging since there are many different types and subtypes of breast cancer. These types...

As part of our community member interview series on AdvancedBreastCancer.net, we had the honor of interviewing Lynn. She was diagnosed with HR-positive, HER2 negative and tells us a little about...

The air was crisp, the sun was bright, and the sound of laughter ringing like an echo. It was me, my children, and our dog, Star, on a narrow canyon...

Let me first say that I'm 100% behind the Black Lives Matter movement and I've written a great deal about that on my own blog and elsewhere. This post is...

We are so glad that each and every one of you is part of the AdvancedBreastCancer.net (aBC) community! We were recently curious about what draws you to be here and...

Living with chronic pain isn't fun for anyone, but it is especially difficult when you are already living with a cancer diagnosis, too. Metastases can cause various degrees of pain...

Our Advancedbreastcancer.net community is continuing to highlight our community members living with metastatic breast cancer. In this interview, we spoke with Jessica Carroll who was diagnosed with de novo stage...

When you are diagnosed with breast cancer, it can be challenging. There are different types and subtypes. Treatment and prognosis are associated with the different kinds of breast cancer. Learning...

We are extremely heartbroken to share that AdvancedBreastCancer.net team member, Alyson Tischler, peacefully passed away on Friday, April 9th, 2021 in her home with her loved ones. Alyson was first...