http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour kathylatour Blog en-us Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:21:18 -0600 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:55:00 -0600 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss moderator@curetoday.com (moderator) moderator@curetoday.com (moderator) moderator@curetoday.com http://www.curetoday.com/assets/images/placeholder.gif http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour no http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2010/3/8/Infections---newest-strains-are-scary In the fall of 2008 I left the hospital after what I planned as my last-ever breast surgery. The year before, I had been diagnosed with DCIS in my left breast, which was treated with a mastectomy. I had had a mastectomy on m right breast in 1986 as p... News Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:55:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2010/3/8/Infections---newest-strains-are-scary http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2010/2/27/Radiation-risks-explored-by-Congress I am spending a few days in Washington,D.C., with Suzanne Lindley, the founder of YES, who is here to testify before the subcommittee on health. Since a series documenting radiation treatment errors in The New York Times earlier this year, there has ... News Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:21:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2010/2/27/Radiation-risks-explored-by-Congress http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2010/2/16/Aspirin-and-breast-cancer-recurrence Can it really be that aspirin can reduce the risk of breast cancer spreading to another organ and cut the death rate by half? According to a study out today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology online, it's true. The results come from the Nurse's... News Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:00:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2010/2/16/Aspirin-and-breast-cancer-recurrence http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2010/2/8/Cancer-Survivorship I love it when I stumble on a great resource for cancer patients and survivors. The newest find is the Voices of Survivors Foundation, begun by prostate survivor Lynn Lane. Lane, a documentary filmmaker was diagnosed in 2008 and, after recovering... Survivorship Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:42:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2010/2/8/Cancer-Survivorship http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2010/1/25/Radon-causes-lung-cancer This sentence just caught my attention: Radon caused more deaths in the United States last year than drunken driving, fires, and carbon monoxide combined. Wow! Radon is a naturally occurring gas released into the environment from the normal decay ... News Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2010/1/25/Radon-causes-lung-cancer http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2010/1/8/Getting-the-best-cancer-treatment It's hard not to notice that cancer is big business these days. With the numbers of people being diagnosed and increasingly knowledgeable patients, it was only a matter of time before the inevitable advertising would appear from some of the elite nat... Diagnosis Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:16:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2010/1/8/Getting-the-best-cancer-treatment http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2009/12/13/Treatments-for-metastatic-breast-cancer The data presented on options for treatment for advanced breast cancer is still less than data for primary breast cancer, but it seemed like many of the researchers were reporting on new findings for combination drug options for metstatic breast canc... News Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:22:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2009/12/13/Treatments-for-metastatic-breast-cancer http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2009/12/12/Advocates-everywhere-at-SABCS I am always sad to leave SABCS because it's been a time to reconnect with the amazing men and women who work full time, mostly as volunteers, advocating for breast cancer and the women and men who are diagnosed with the disease. Advocacy is one o... Survivorship News General Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:37:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2009/12/12/Advocates-everywhere-at-SABCS http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2009/12/11/Prophylactic-mastectomy-on-other-breast-increasing It wasn't surprising to me today to hear data that showed a large increase in women choosing prophylactic mastectomy on the side not affected by breast cancer. You can read the details of the study in a brief from Laura Biel in Day 3 coverage of the... News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:08:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2009/12/11/Prophylactic-mastectomy-on-other-breast-increasing http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2009/12/10/Lifestyle-and-breast-cancer-the-jury-is-in-on-obesity-and-out-on-alcohol It's time to get the weight off ladies. We've been hearing the indications for months if not years and now the studies are building to show that a high body mass index( BMI) has a connection not only to getting breast cancer but also to surviving bre... Exercise Nutrition Survivorship News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:42:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2009/12/10/Lifestyle-and-breast-cancer-the-jury-is-in-on-obesity-and-out-on-alcohol http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2009/12/9/A-meeting-filled-with-hope-and-promise The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium kicked off Wednesday with some pre-meeting sessions, but mostly those attending were picking up their badges and looking through the meeting journal to mark the presentations they wanted to hear. I spent a ... News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2009/12/9/A-meeting-filled-with-hope-and-promise http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2009/12/4/Adolescents-the-forgotten-caregivers In my 23 years as a college professor, I often spoke of my cancer experience, which made me the go-to faculty member for students who learned a family member had been diagnosed with cancer. Often the students came to me in distress, having just re... Caregiving Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:54:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2009/12/4/Adolescents-the-forgotten-caregivers http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2009/11/16/Breast-cancer-patients-can-reduce-their-risk-of-recurrence A few blogs ago I told you about my discussion with Otis Brawley, MD, the chief medical officer of ACS and his message that we have to use what we know to prevent cancer and be well, and it comes down to applying what we know about healthy living , ... Survivorship Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:19:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2009/11/16/Breast-cancer-patients-can-reduce-their-risk-of-recurrence http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2009/11/9/Getting-support-at-Gildas-Club-by-just-showing-up Last week I met with 30 cancer survivors at Gilda's Club North Texas to talk about survivorship, the time after treatment ends when we have to find our life again. We spend lots of time and energy on getting through cancer treatment, but little on th... Survivorship Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:54:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2009/11/9/Getting-support-at-Gildas-Club-by-just-showing-up http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex//kathylatour/2009/11/3/Do-you-understand-your-diagnosis In the upcoming Winter issue of CURE we have a story on health literacy. As most of you who have been there know, this phrase does not relate to how many people who are diagnosed with cancer can read and write. The day I was diagnosed it didn't matte... General Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:53:00 -0600 http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.showIndex/kathylatour/2009/11/3/Do-you-understand-your-diagnosis