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Aquittal and mistrial for John Edwards by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer John Edwards, the worst-behaving spouse of a person with breast cancer, was aquitted today on one count; a mistrial was declared on the others.  WBTV in Charlotte, NC, repor ... Read on »
Direct from the New York (Cancer) Times by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer (all the cancer news that fits) Cancer, at Age 23 This video series is about life. But life with cancer. “Since the diagnosis, my life has been a slow emer ... Read on »
Lakewood & Byron, Wrigleyville, Chicago by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Our well-traveled poppies have bloomed. They started out in Litchfield, Illinois, then a few plants went to Gary, Indiana, and now they've been in Chicago a few years. I ... Read on »
Embrace Your Allergies! by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer The New York Times refers us to Psychology Today to "The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius, " Margie Profet (pictured above), whose articles in scientific journals ... Read on »
Another reason to exercise regularly... by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Those nice researchers at the Kinsey Institute found what the marketing folks would call "value added." Thanks, Dawn Turner Trice of the Tribune, for reporting on this. Read on »
Inquiry: Block cancer center by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Fellow cancer folk: Have you been treated at the  Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment  in Skokie? A friend of a friend in California has stage four stomach can ... Read on »
Komenwatch: Nancy Brinker says she's sorry by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Read about it in Politico .                                            This is St. Jerome, not Nancy Brinker (who is Jewish),                                            ... Read on »
I knit, therefore I am by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Why does this Englishwoman knit breasts? Find out here or post your own guess in Comments. Thanks to Anne Basye for the link. Read on »
Texas by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer In the yellow pages at our hotel in Ft. Worth (nestled next to the requisite bible), the listings under Taxicabs were shorter than the ones under Taxidermists. Read on »
Who's responsible for vintage racism? by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Sammee Tong I also watched an episode of Bachelor Father , which was vaguely familiar. It starred John Forsythe and aired from 1957 to 1962, so that means I ... Read on »
The war on daytime tv by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer William Conrad as Cannon Peter van Pels (aka van Daan) Cancer Bitch's other nom de guerre is Holocaust Girl , and as Holocaus ... Read on »
News!!! Spine discovered by Republican-founded Komen Foundation by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer NYT: Cancer Group, Reversing Course, Says It Will Maintain Planned Parenthood Funding Komen is reversing its course on cutting the breast-cancer screening funds at Planned ... Read on »
O, you Komen! by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has funded some 170,000 breast exams at Planned Parenthood in the last five years. But no more. And Komen ain't talkin' about ... Read on »
Chocolat by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer I have been abstemious in my eating: no sugar, no flours since September or so. Today I had chocolate (73 percent dark, as people in my social class are wont to require) ... Read on »
A quarter of a year later... by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer The Bitch returns. The Bitch is still aflutter: What does this blog serve? What does it do for her own imperiled psyche? What should the subject of it be? If it is not about ... Read on »
Cell phones get the OK by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Now you can call all your friends and tell them the news: The link between cell phones and cancer is not strong. Not at all. The New York Cancer Times reports about the ... Read on »
Radiation is Good, says the Lancet by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer The New York Times just reported on an important British study showing that radiation prevented recurrences and saved lives of women who had lumpectomies. Specificall ... Read on »
While I was Out... by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer The New York Times had a good mid-October report on the pinking of America. Basically, it was about the rise of the upbeat Komen for the Cure... and its critics. Cancer ... Read on »
Return of the Bitch by Sandi W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer It has been more than a month since I've blogged and I thought it was due to laziness but it may have been lack of urgency, since this is partly an illness blog. But luc ... Read on »