How to Monitor Your Health with At-Home Devices...At-home monitoring can help you better manage chronic health conditions. It can also aid in your recovery after medical procedures. Using this technology, you can regularly record your health data...reactionscomments
Telehealth: Privacy Concerns When Going Virtual...Telehealth has become a popular way to see a doctor. Today, you can get many health services remotely. And, some studies show you may get better care at a lower...reactionscomments
The New Normal? Breast Cancer People Have COVID-19 Covered...Breast cancer patients live with a “new normal” on a daily basis. Months of treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and, if their cancer metastasizes, further drug regimens, leads us to...reactionscomments
Communication During COVID-19...A few weeks ago, while COVID-19 was ramping up here in Florida, I had to go to the hospital. We literally did everything we could to avoid going to be...reactionscomments
Metastatic Breast Cancer – A Different Type of Breast Cancer...A metastatic breast cancer (MBC) diagnosis is life-changing. Metastatic breast cancer is when breast cancer spreads beyond the breast to other organs and is currently incurable. The MBC community is...reactionscomments
How Do I Find Virtual Health Services?...It can be overwhelming to figure out how to find telehealth services, especially if you do not already have a doctor. But many companies offer a range of virtual health...reactionscomments
Community Shares: The Language of Cancer Matters...Our words matter more than we realize and what we say to ourselves matters especially. How we word a situation determines if we feel hopeful or hopeless. Feel love or...reactionscomments
A Look at the Services Virtual Care Offers...Telehealth or virtual care can be used to access many different types of health services. To get started, talk to your doctor to find out which virtual services are right...reactionscomments
Faith Factor...I had the best intentions: I was going to wake up, shower, get dressed, and go to Hobby Lobby. After all, I had convinced myself that these projects were urgent...reactionscomments
Dealing With the "Cancer-stones" That Mark My Calendar...Every year, at the start of the new year I am reminded of when I was told I had cancer. I was diagnosed with cancer in March of 2015. When...reactionscomments
Waiting..."The waiting is the hardest part Every day you get one more yard You take it on faith, you take it to the heart The waiting is the hardest part"Tom...reactionscomments
The Right To Choose...How many times have you sat across from a white-coated doctor and felt your only choice was to swallow whole what they were saying? After all, they went to school...reactionscomments
Overcoming Scanxiety..."Scan, treat, repeat"- a common phrase in the world of advanced cancer. Scans are significant because they tell us if our treatment is working. I like to think of being...reactions5comments
Preparing for a Virtual Visit with Your Doctor...Visiting your doctor online is a great way to get healthcare if you are not able to go in person. You can get medical advice, visual assessments, treatments, or update...reactionscomments
Telehealth 101: How to Visit Your Doctor Online...Telehealth is a virtual service that lets patients interact with a healthcare professional online. This lets doctors and patients connect without being in the same room, or even the same...reactionscomments
Racial Differences in Advanced Breast Cancer...Cancer development, treatment, and outcomes are tricky topics to understand. The underlying reasons why a person gets cancer or how they might respond to treatment are often unknown and depend...reactionscomments
Claire Gawinowicz...Claire was previously a health leader on AdvancedBreastCancer.net. At age 55 she started her own at-home proofreading business but after several years she and her husband decided it was time...
"You Are Not Alone. You Will Not Feel Pain. We Will Be OK."...Editor’s note: The following article describes the author’s feelings about death, which may be upsetting for some readers. I read an article recently about a mother who was caring for...reactionscomments
My Sister's Cancer Diagnosis Led Me to Love My Job Even More...If you were to ask me in 2009 when I graduated nursing school why I wanted so badly to be an oncology nurse, I would have told you because I...reactionscomments
Community Shares: What You Would Say to Your Oncologist...There is a lot that often goes unsaid between a patient and their oncologist. Some of you are grateful for specific things your oncologist does, and others of you have...reactionscomments