Living

I think it was only a few days after I discovered I had metastatic breast cancer that I shared it on my personal Facebook page. Mainly because my social media...

How do you cope when it feels like your life is all about your cancer diagnosis? It's hard to believe that life could go on normally after you receive a...

There is only so much information I can absorb at a new medication teach. Most of the time, these meeting type-situations occur after spending hours on whatever floor you are...

As a breast cancer patient and advocate, a former oncologist and a journalist, Dr. Elaine Schattner was well placed to write the history of cancer from the times of very...

Let’s just jump right into it here. I want to talk about a few chemo side effects I regularly experience and some of the ways I’ve learned to find relief...

Janice Cowden is a passionate patient advocate living with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer since 2016. Janice feels very fortunate to have No Evidence of Disease (NED) after having a complete...

I had a preconceived belief that people living with cancer were thin and frail in appearance; they looked sick. Most understand that chemotherapy can be brutal. It makes people sick...

It's a topic that isn't often talked about, but it's something that many cancer patients experience: Cancer Ghosting. This is when friends, family, or loved ones become distant or cut...

Recently I have been having an increased amount of pain in my knee, and it's been weighing on my mind. I would ask myself, "Can cancer go to the knee?"...

In my time before having stage 4 cancer, goal setting was a very normal occurrence for me. I’m sure it sounds like a very normal, very adult thing to do...

Janice Cowden is a passionate patient advocate living with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer since 2016. Janice feels very fortunate to have No Evidence of Disease (NED) after having a complete...

We are extremely saddened to share that AdvancedBreastCancer.net Health Leader Amanda Raffenaud passed away on Monday, April 3, 2023. After her cancer diagnosis in December 2018, Amanda made it her...

I recently saw a few friends coming up on impressive survival anniversaries living with MBC. Seeing their beautiful faces in photos and reading their posts was a welcome treat in...

I want to talk about sleep, or lack of sleep, as it applies to most of us with metastatic breast cancer. As if having a terminal disease, taking tons of...

I was exhausted. All I wanted to do was sleep, but even that was difficult. Every day I battled fatigue from my metastatic breast cancer treatments. It was hard to...

One thing I do not see a lot of in the breast cancer community is queer relationships. I sometimes feel different when researching a topic of discussion within my relationship...