What Chemo Does to Your Nails and How to Prevent It Besides the unavoidable hair loss brought about by chemotherapy, changes in nails are also among the treatment’s side effects. Whether it’s a change in color, texture, or shape, nail changes are inevitable to anyone who has undergone chemo. Chemotherapy and Nail Changes Since certain […]
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BRCA Gene Mutation: What You Need to Know A number of factors can contribute to the development of breast cancer, including lifestyle, age, gender, and genes. With recent technological advancements, it’s now possible to determine if a mutated gene has been passed down from a parent to their child. In fact, a famous actress decided […]
How to Manage Fatigue While Battling Breast Cancer It’s not unusual for a breast cancer patient to experience fatigue because that’s a common side effect of breast cancer treatment. In case you’re wondering, fatigue that’s cancer-related is way different from the normal feeling of being tired. When people who don’t have cancer feel tired, all […]
5 Resources for Children of Parents Diagnosed with Breast Cancer Breast cancer can be very unsettling when it hits any member of a family, especially the mother. Under normal circumstances, it’s already challenging enough for a mother to raise children. To add a breast cancer diagnosis on top of it all can be nothing short […]
How Long Does It Usually Take for Hair to Grow Back after Chemo? One of the most common effects of chemotherapy is hair loss. Not only does the treatment kill cancer cells, but it also destroys healthy cells, including those in the hair follicles. Although no chemo patient can avoid hair loss after undergoing treatment, […]
5 Tips for Talking to Your Children About Your Breast Cancer Diagnosis Being diagnosed with breast cancer is undoubtedly devastating and especially difficult for mothers since they would have to eventually tell their children about the diagnosis. For this reason, most of these mothers tend to take their time before they break the news while […]
Why Does Hair Loss Happen When Going Through Chemo? An individual who’s been diagnosed with breast cancer goes through many challenges. Amid their emotional distress and physical discomfort, they have to undergo chemotherapy, a medical procedure that seeks to eliminate cancer cells from their system. Adding to their misery, breast cancer patients lose their hair […]
How Is a Person Diagnosed with Breast Cancer? When malignant cancer cells form a tumor in an individual’s breast tissues, that person has breast cancer. In the United States alone, one in eight women is expected to be diagnosed with this disease within the course of her lifetime. Breast cancer happens to be the most […]
How Long Does It Take for Breast Cancer to Spread? Are you aware of the fact that on average, a woman finds out that she has breast cancer every two minutes and one woman dies of this disease every 13 minutes? Knowing this, it’s no wonder why breast cancer has become the second leading cause […]
Your Basic Guide to Mastectomy Tattoos Right after a mastectomy procedure, breast cancer patients are given a number of options for their breast area. These include getting implants or breast prosthesis, undergoing the traditional breast reconstruction surgery, having their areolas tattooed, or choosing to do nothing about their new appearance by settling on a flat […]