Curing Cancer: Understanding Chemotherapy

by Paromita Pain -USA- Susan Mai did not want to die. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer and her doctor prescribed a course of chemotherapy, she knew it was the most that could be done. The very words “cancer”...

Posted by Paromita Pain on February 28, 2013 11:04 AM

No Lump Still Cancer: Understanding Inflammatory Breast Cancer

by Paromita Pain -USA- Birthdays mark milestones. For Terry Arnold, one birthday changed the course of her life. “I had just turned 49 when one morning I woke up with one breast significantly swollen,” she says. “Soon I went from...

Posted by Paromita Pain on December 10, 2012 3:54 PM

When Breast Implants Are Ticking Time Bombs: The PIP Scandal

by Aralena Malone-Leroy -France- In late December 2011, while most Europeans were doing last-minute holiday shopping and preparing for gargantuan meals and family festivities, hundreds of thousands of women spent achingly sleepless nights, worried that their breast implants might be...

Posted by Aralena Malone-Leroy on February 2, 2012 12:01 AM

Cancer in Kenya Should Not Be A Death Certificate

by Joyce J. Wangui -Kenya- Biopsy, mammogram, and chemotherapy are words all too familiar with cancer patients. Death is another word often at the tip of many tongues as patients describe the disease. Kenyans are coming to terms with cancer,...

Posted by Joyce J. Wangui on December 20, 2011 8:05 AM

Mama, Young and Beautiful: Celebrating Another Year of Ferocity

by Emily Rose Herzlin - USA - I’ve never been able to remember my parents’ ages. I wrote my dad a birthday poem one year that began: Dear Dad, don’t be blue, Just because you’re 53 or maybe 52. He...

Posted by Emily Rose Herzlin on May 8, 2009 12:00 AM