Yahoo launched breast cancer awareness site

   Yahoo Health launched special site to create awareness on breast cancer with articles, videos, expert’s advice and survival stories. It is a must visit site for every breast cancer patient and also for others who want to know about breast cancer. It has a special section about personal stories of breast cancer patients and survivors. Yahoo Health launched new beta site with more stress on health videos and expert advice.  Highlights of the Yahoo breast cancer website:    1. Experts’ advice on diet, life style changes.   2. Articles on how to prevent breast cancer? How to do breast self examination? etc.        3. Clearing doubts about most common breast cancer myths.         4. Survival stories of breast cancer patients.         5. How these patients are fighting with this disease?         6. Links to yahoo groups on breast cancer.         7. Videos on breast cancer.         8. Links to Flickr photos on breast cancer.             Visit Yahoo’s breast cancer website.             … [Read more...]

Cancer sites guide

    Even after so much advance in oncology (study of cancer), Cancer is still most dreaded disease. This Guide is mainly for cancer patients and their Families.         Best Cancer sites:      Best Cancer Site - Association of Cancer Resources It includes information about Cancer types, Treatment Options, Mailing Lists, Support Resources and Clinical Trails. Must Visit Site. Cancer Information and Support Best site. It includes cancer information, cancer types, Treatment options, Message boards and best cancer directory. It has cardiac Risk assessment, Ideal weight calculator and Life span calculator. Virtual Cancer centre - Very good site from Australia. University Of Michigan - Comprehensive cancer resources.Cancer Support Groups and Forums. Wellness Community - Cancer Support and Education community. Living With Cancer - Supporting Forums, Blogs and chat. American Cancer Community - Must visit for Americans. Canadian Community based voluntary organization. NCCS - Information about cancer survival and Care.   Cancer Directories: Breast Cancer Cancer Resources   Inspirational Stories from Cancer Winners  Share the Hope - University of Michigan Cancer Centre. Living With Cancer - Information, Photographs ad Poetry. Coping with Cancer - A Carer's story.   Cancer Magazines and Journals:  British Journal of Cancer - Free Online Sample is available.     … [Read more...]

Must Read : Cancer Vixen

 Time Magazine selected this book as an inspiring and must read book.  Cancer Vixen becomes a lesson on how staying fabulous can help save your life.    This book was wriiten by MARISA ACOCELLA MARCHETTO who was once a breast cancer patient.   This book is a funny, eye opening and moving memoir.     Visit website.       About the book: What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds . . . a lump in her breast?”  That’s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid color and with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer—from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between.       But Cancer Vixen is about more than surviving an illness. It is a portrait of one woman’s supercharged life in Manhattan, and a wonderful love story. Marisa, self-described “terminal bachelorette,” meets her Prince Charming in Silvano, owner of the chic downtown restaurant Da Silvano.     Three weeks before their wedding, she receives her diagnosis. She wonders: How will he react to this news? How will my world change? Will I even survive? And . . . what about my hair?       Please comment on this Cancer book.   … [Read more...]