By Leslie Jacobson, The Breast Milagro
A poster at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium grabbed our attention: “Impact of a Culturally Syntonic Door-to-Door Breast Cancer Early Detection Intervention.”
HESTER HILL SCHNIPPER, a licensed independent clinical social worker, is a breast cancer survivor and the manager of oncology social work at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She also writes a daily blog, Living With Breast Cancer, for the hospital's website. In an article for Cancer Today Magazine, she offers 12 pointers to ease some of the burden associated with difficult treatment decisions.
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is always upsetting, even if the disease is now more curable than ever. For a 63 year-old male with a cancer traditionally associated with women, the journey is more mysterious.
Susan G. Komen guest blogger Yarazetd Mendoza-Camargo, Community Outreach Coordinator at the Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia, discusses her involvement with a new Breast Cancer Education Toolkit for Hispanic/Latino Communities.
With more education and disease management, T2D is no longer a “death sentence”.
Q & A with Dr. Samuel Arce, Chairman of the Board of the National Hispanic Medical Association