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show first aired October 16, 2008
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For over two decades October has been designated Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and with awareness has come progress. On today’s Health Show, we’ll talk about that continuing progress and what it means for women living with breast cancer and their families. We’ll be joined in studio by a medical oncologist and discuss the very latest in detection, treatment and prevention of breast cancer. We’ll also chat with the author of a new breast cancer memoir...one that has a very personal and sassy edge.
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SO WHAT'S NEW WITH THE BREAST CANCER - PT 1
The first National Breast Cancer Awareness Month was really just a week in October of 1985. It was the beginning of an effort to fight a disease that, while not being ignored, was not being talked about openly in the US. When former first lady Betty Ford, a breast cancer survivor herself, made a nationally televised appeal to women to get screened...it inspired a flood of other high profile Americans to come forward with their stories of surviving the disease. Today, we wanted to talk about what’s new in the world of breast cancer treatment and research. Here to talk about this is Dr. Janet Gargiulo, a medical oncologist at New York Oncology Hematology in Latham, New York. She and Dr. Nina Sax started by talking about who is most at risk for breast cancer.
Breast Cancer Is A Bitch!
Gail Konop Baker has no problem expressing herself. The former columnist for the online magazine Literary Mama was finishing a novel about a woman with breast cancer when she was diagnosed...with breast cancer. That began a year long struggle against both the disease and her self image. That struggle has taken the form of another book...her own story...called “Cancer Is A Bitch - Or I’d Rather Be Having A Midlife Crisis”. Bob Barrett spoke with her recently and observed that while many books about living with breast cancer seem to come from the heart...this one comes from the gut.
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