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Patient advocates living with early-stage breast cancer are often advised to stay in their lane, rather than take up the cause for metastatic patients. At least that was true until...

A food label can tell you a lot about what you are eating. It shows the number of calories and serving sizes of different foods and provides a breakdown of...

I wake up each day and I dread letting my feet hit the floor. It’s not that I don’t hear the birds chirping and think "wow what a beautiful day"...

Invasive pleomorphic lobular carcinoma (IPLC) is a rare kind of breast cancer. It makes up less than 1 percent of all breast cancer cases. Though it is less common, it...

While some of us have caregivers who stick around, many others get diagnosed when alone or some people just can't handle it and leave in the midst of treatment. Regardless...

Surveys show that most people in the United States are in favor of legalized marijuana (cannabis) for medical and/or recreational use. As of April 2023, medical marijuana was legal in...

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...