“Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner’s breast cancer” is a comprehensive memoir-chronicle and guide to scientific research, meds and where to get help — and can aid female patients and caregivers even though it’s geared toward male caregivers.
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Removing extra slice around margins might avert additional breast cancer operationThe flip-floppers are back.Actually, that's misleading. They never went away.Flip-flops in breast cancer research date back almost as far as research in breast cancer itself. They...
This won't inform you about chocolate, Dr. Sheldon Cooper's brain or Miley Cyrus' butt, but…Twerking champ Miley CyrusThis blog item is a total tease.So are its accompanying photos, which I, Woody Weingarten, carefully selected to snag your attention.Mmm good but...
Breastfest tomorrow will help level the playing field by aiding low-income women with cancerBeer and breast cancer.Not exactly a combination that slips into a comfy mental corner or trickles off the tongue easily.But it’s an important combo, especially...
'Rollercoaster' author appears on half-hour KPIX-TV show you now can watch on YouTubeSan Francisco's KPIX-TV turned a cliché on its head a short while back, so the new chestnut became "The early bird catches…the Woody."How'd that happen?Woody Weingarten (right)...
Studies differ on whether trendy 'patient navigators' are truly beneficial in cancer cases Are navigators — those nurses or lay aides who guide cancer patients through the bureaucratic mazes that must be negotiated again and again in the medical system...
Task force retains old ideas — women under 50 must decide for selves about mammogramsSix years ago, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force kickstarted a debate on what precise age women should get mammograms.How?By making integral to its report the notion that those...
Famed TV chef recovering from double mastectomy after breast cancer diagnosis in New York Sandra Lee gets kiss from partner,N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, inhospital after double mastectomy.Sandra Lee, celebrated Food Network chef and longtime partner of N.Y. Gov....
Pregnant women's exposure to DDT may have boosted breast cancer risk for their daughtersA new peril has been discovered for an old insecticide. And it's intergenerational.Sort of a treacherous hand-me-down.A recent study shows "a startling link between pregnant women...
Nonprofit breast cancer agency gets new headquarters — and a new executive directorRose BarlowZero Breast Cancer, a nonprofit that focuses on identifying the role environmental factors play in breast cancer, has a new home. And a new leader.The Marin County...
Woody Weingarten's first TV interview, about 'Rollercoaster,' now available on YouTubeAll we have is today.So we absolutely must appreciate the here and now.That one-day-at-a-time lesson became palpable to my wife, Nancy Fox, and me 20 years ago when she was diagnosed...