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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I wanted to do a little more than the average breast cancer awareness post. Here is my humble attempt. I've put this post together with; videos of survivors, an interview with Christina Applegate, early signs & symptoms, blogs of note, news, and links to informative support sites. If I've missed something (and I'm sure I have), please share the information with our readers in comments.
If you take nothing else away from this post, please take this...
Take care of your personal breast health. Talk to your mother's, daughter's, sister's, and girlfriend's about mammograms, self breast exams, and healthy living. Be "aware" - It's not just about buying pink stuff.
Here is Christina Applegate from Samantha Who, talking about her breast cancer on GMA, only three weeks after having a double mastectomy.
Christina Applegate was also on Oprah - see more on her appearance here.
Surviving Breast Cancer:
Feeling like a sexy woman after breast cancer...
A breast cancer diagnosis can make you feel like your body was hijacked. Everything that was womanly about you is suddenly taken from you, quite literally, and you’re left by yourself to rationalize something that is too intimate for others to understand and too universal to keep bottled up.
Not very often does a breast cancer diagnosis make you love your body, and even less often does it make you love your breast. But that’s what happened for Eriko.
“My breast cancer made me a sexier person,” she said. “I was forced to become in tune with my body and my breast. I had no choice. Not all women really want to have to deal with it, but when you’re confronted with a diagnosis of cancer, you have to pay attention to your body in ways you never did before.”
Lori Lober speaks about how the biotech treatment Herceptin helped in her fight against breast cancer...
If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer, you can get a free copy of Lori’s book “Bigger Than Pink” at her website. You can also learn more about her organization, the Touched By Cancer Foundation.
How breast cancer taught Cara how to live...
"I had never known anyone before who'd had cancer, and I just thought that was the end of the world. I decided I would make a list of all the things that I had never done, and during the recovery period between surgery and chemotherapies, I would do all those things," Cara said.
Now for some awareness. Do you know the early warning signs of breast cancer?
WebMD - Breast Cancer Symptoms: Early Signs and Symptoms...
In its early stages, breast cancer usually has no symptoms. As a tumor develops, you may note the following signs:
- A lump in the breast or underarm that persists after your menstrual cycle; often the first apparent symptom of breast cancer, breast lumps are painless, although some may cause a prickly sensation. Lumps are usually visible on a mammogram long before they can be seen or felt.
- Swelling in the armpit.
- Although lumps are usually painless, pain or tenderness in the breast can be a sign of breast cancer.
- A noticeable flattening or indentation on the breast, which may indicate a tumor that cannot be seen or felt.
- Any change in the size, contour, texture, or temperature of the breast; a reddish, pitted surface like the skin of an orange could be a sign of advanced breast cancer.
- A change in the nipple, such as an indrawn or dimpled look, itching or burning sensation, or ulceration; scaling of the nipple is symptomatic of Paget's disease, a localized cancer.
- Unusual discharge from the nipple that may be clear, bloody, or
