by Dawn Anderson The holiday decorations are all down and packed away (mostly . . .) and this time of year we tend to think about fresh starts. Have you been considering some shelf cleaning and organizing to start this new year out right? Maybe you have lots of bottles of cleaning supplies and cosmetics […]
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by Dawn Anderson “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” – William E. Vaughan This made me laugh out loud! It’s definitely a truth this time of year (IF we can still stay awake until midnight). 365 days is
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by Linda Hansen I found the lump that was Stage IV metastatic breast cancer just five weeks after a “clean” mammogram. And I was mad. How could metastatic breast cancer be missed on a mammogram? I spent that first year going through surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, but in the back of my mind, the question
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by Dawn Anderson BACKGROUND The Wisconsin Well Woman Program (WWWP) is part of a national program established by Congress known as the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP). Since 1994, it has made mammograms and pap screenings available at no cost to women living in Wisconsin, ages 45-64 with household incomes below
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by Dawn Anderson For most of our almost 30-year existence, the WBCC has maintained that pink ribbons and “hope” are not enough to stop women from dying from breast cancer. We’ve focused on taking action – “STANDING UP AND SPEAKING OUT” – to make sure there is appropriate research funding allocated, to ensure all women
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by Linda Hansen In this country alone, a person dies of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) every 13 minutes. When you hear that someone died of breast cancer, they died of MBC. There is no cure for MBC; treatment continues until you die. Only 22 percent of people diagnosed with MBC will be alive five years
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by Dawn Anderson Happy Spring in Wisconsin! Little sleepy heads like Snow Drops, Hepatica, Crocus, and Pasque Flowers are waking up and stretching towards the warmth of May. These earliest harbingers of the end of winter are reminders that we always come through it. They give me hope, even on the spring days that taunt
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by Dawn Anderson In April 2010, The President’s Cancer Panel (PCP) issued a report entitled “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now.” In their opening letter to the President, the authors state, “The Panel was particularly concerned to find that the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated. With nearly
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by Dawn Anderson The Department of Defense’s Breast Cancer Research Program issues a yearly report on the current state of breast cancer. This is a summary of the 2021 report, which you can read in its entirety HERE. All specific data references can be found at the end of the original report. INCIDENCE and SCREENING:
by Dawn Anderson You know you’ve done it. We’ve all done it. We toast a new year, and we think, “It’s a blank page. I should start something new! Or finish the book I started. Or organize all my spices alphabetically and old photos by calendar year. Maybe run a marathon.” (Not me. I’ve never
