Monday, March 12, 2001

Risk of breast cancer decreased in blind women - supports the melatonin hypothesis.

Some Surgeons Apply New Breast Cancer Staging Technique Without Adequate Training - before you choose sentinel node biopsy, read this!

Men, Check Your Chests - guys can get breast cancer, too.
posted by Karen Weber Monday, March 12, 2001

Tuesday, March 13, 2001

Protein May Help Doctors Predict Breast Cancer Outcome

Common Blood Thinner Curbs Cancer Spread in Mice

Just a note. My biopsy was rescheduled for tomorrow. Mom is down today. We went out to lunch with Rick and did some straightening in the kitchen. Mom napped while I hopped in the pool - 88 degrees today! Beauty! I'm hoping that I won't have to restrict my swimming more than a few days after the biopsy.

Rick is pretty sure that I won't escape tomorrow without having a needle poked in me. The window on doing the biopsy with contrast is so short that he's sure they'll put the needle in as close to where they think it is as possible, put me in the scanner and start it up before injecting the contrast. He thinks it's the only way they could possibly do it. Bummer! I'd love to get out of there again with no new holes. I know for sure that I don't want them doing the random sampling thing they talked about last week. That's a lot more bleeding and pain with no guarantee of payoff. I can't see doing that. Anyway, we'll see tomorrow.
posted by Karen Weber Tuesday, March 13, 2001

Wednesday, March 14, 2001

I'm doing the dance of joy today! They gave me the contrast and still no lesion! The radiologist I had today said that unless they could see something, he wasn't doing anything. So no needle in the liver today and no biopsy! And best of all, no lesion!

So many people around the world have been praying for me. I've had a prayer placed for me in the Wall in Jerusalem. I've had hands laid on me. I've had people and churches around the world praying for me. Candles lit for me at Catholic churches and shrines. A number of people told me that they were sure that this would turn out for the best, that all the prayers would be answered. Well, they were! God is good!
posted by Karen Weber Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Thursday, March 15, 2001

Glowing Molecules May Point Way to Breast Cancer
posted by Karen Weber Thursday, March 15, 2001

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