While breast cancer screening cannot prevent a woman from getting breast cancer, it can increase her chances of survival if the disease is found early. Screening includes regular clinical breast examinations and mammograms, as well as self-exams. But breast cancer screening can lead to callbacks, unnecessary biopsies, and anxiety and stress. And it may miss…
Ovarian cancer is a serious form of cancer that affects the ovaries and can have life-threatening consequences if it is not detected and treated early. It is important to understand the symptoms of ovarian cancer, as well as the risk factors associated with it, in order to help catch it in its early stages and…
Breast cancer is a worrisome disease and is the most common cancer worldwide. The worst thing is it doesn’t always show symptoms in its early stage. That being said, there are warning signs you can use to detect the presence and development of breast cancer. Timely detection can turn an otherwise sad story into a…
Being a mom is stressful enough. Coping with cancer on top of the challenges of being a parent is completely overwhelming. You have so much to look forward to in your child’s life and want to move past this—hopefully brief—a chapter of illness. You will need to rely a lot more on family and friends…
Today is World Cancer Day. A day that sadly gets overlooked unless you are someone whose life has been affected by cancer. Let me start off by saying I have never had cancer. But I have been affected by it. Cancer stole from me, my best friend and amazing sister Karen at the very young…
Who can forget the iconic scene in Miracle on 34th Street, when the lawyer Fred Gailey has hundreds of letters delivered to the court, written by children who believe in Santa Claus? This holiday season, make a lasting gift of kindness by helping I See Me! deliver thousands of letters to children supported by the Children’s…
