Talking to your loved ones about your diagnosis and treatment and maintaining communication can be difficult. However you can’t expect them to know how you’re feeling unless you tell them.

Personal relationships can be a difficult thing to navigate for all people, but particularly for some breast cancer survivors. Some women who are already married at the time of their diagnosis have fears that their relationship with their spouse will change, and others who are not married fear that dating will become much more difficult.

At the time of your biopsy or surgery, your doctor looked closely for “receptors” on the breast cancer tissue that was removed. Receptors are a protein that is present on the surface or in the inside of the breast cancer cell. These receptors interacted with something else in your body (most often some type of hormone) and caused the cell to change or grow and make the cancer.

230,000 women develop breast cancer each year, and 5-10% of these cases are hereditary in nature. Hereditary breast cancer occurs when there is a single hereditary cause for breast cancer in an individual or family.

43, 680 hours, in other words, 5 years, that’s how long I have been a breast cancer survivor, this month, January 2016! I couldn’t wait to send out an email to family and friends to ask them to help me celebrate!

According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, the incidence of cervical cancer in Alabama is 8.7 women out of every 100,000 (which is higher than the national average of 8.1). This means that more than 200 women each year are diagnosed with cervical cancer in Alabama each year. Here are some quick facts about cervical cancer prevention and early detection.

Predictability is my friend. My husband frequently calls me a "rule follower." Spur of the moment is not my idea of fun. I have never welcomed change ... until I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Did you know that November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month? While our focus has always been on breast cancer, there are breast cancer survivors who continue to smoke or who have friends and loved ones who also smoke. For these reasons, we thought we’d mention a few things about tobacco, smoking, and second-hand smoke.