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The best piece of unsolicited advice I have ever received was when a friend told me, “Don’t try to climb mountains, just take baby steps every day.” I had recently...

Bob and I had been dating for around four years when he felt a lump in his breast. Bob made a doctor’s appointment with his primary physician. He went to...

The past two years have been especially rough on a lot of people. We’ve had to dig deep to find a source of comfort to get us through the day...

It’s time. Time to talk about…farts. Oh, we can be polite and use the terms “flatulence” or “passing gas.” But I’m not referring here to your ordinary I-ate-too-many-beans farts or...

AdvancedBreastCancer.net (aBC) celebrates three years! It is hard to believe that three years have passed since we launched aBC! Happy anniversary to our community members and advocates. AdvancedBreastCancer.net was created...

In my last article, I shared some of my deep, daily fears as a caregiver husband to a wife living with stage 4 breast cancer. I ended it by saying...

Writing a bucket list after you find out you have a terminal illness is an entirely different exercise than doing it before you are sick. I had always lived my...

Growing up, I lived with little to no fear. I was the happy-go-lucky kid, well-loved, and well-taken care of. I did not really feel intense throat gripping fear until I...

Do you ever feel like everything is ok, maybe even good, and then out of nowhere one simple thing can change your mood completely? Well, if that sounds at all...

When scheduling a scan I get that date set in my mind and I hold on to it for dear life, literally. Once the pen hits the paper of my...

When I got remarried in 2014, I never imagined my new blissful, hope-filled chapter would look like this. Several years before, I went through a grueling divorce that wrecked me...

Editor’s note: Talk to your healthcare provider about your particular situation as it is best to check with your healthcare team before starting any new supplements or diets. I am...

Worldwide, male breast cancer patients account for about one percent of new cases. In the U.S. 2,710 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed this year. About 530...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized a new drug that may help prevent COVID-19. It is called Evusheld (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab).1-3 Evusheld is not authorized for...

This was, and remains, the hardest decision I have ever had to make and by far the hardest thing I have ever been through. I found it harder than grieving...

We sat down with one of our community members, Donna Nelson, and she shared how she is moving forward with life after her ER+ MBC diagnosis. Read her story. I...

Editorial note: This article was originally shared on sister site, H-I-V.net by Khafre Kujichagulia Abif. I can remember when the holidays became emotionally difficult. My father died a sudden death...

Danielle explores the topic of hospice care with a former hospice nurse who was also diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer (MBC). It's a place where people go to die. That...

In May 2020, I wrote about how breast cancer people had COVID-19 covered because treatment “leads us to either adapt to our new situations or live in a world where...

Have you ever had one of those days when everything is going wrong? Your scans are terrible. Your doctor pulled you off the latest line of chemo, but they have...