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Month: April 2013

What % breast cancer research grant dollars go to grants that include metastatic?

  • by oliverbogler
  • Posted on April 29, 2013May 8, 2013
  • dialog on breast cancer

One of questions that arose from the visualizations I published here a couple of days ago, was what proportion of grants go to metastatic breast cancer? So I went back to SciVal Funding, and repeated […]

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UAE screens men for breast cancer alongside women

  • by oliverbogler
  • Posted on April 29, 2013April 28, 2013
  • dialog on breast cancer

In a brief article from the Khaleej Times, an English language paper from Dubai, it is reported that the Pink Caravan, the breast cancer awareness initiative by the Friends of Cancer Patients charitable organization, screened […]

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Where do breast cancer research dollars go? Three data visualizations of 9k grants and $4.8bn

  • by oliverbogler
  • Posted on April 28, 2013May 8, 2013
  • dialog on breast cancer

The US, thanks to a (still relatively) healthy economy, high level of education, entrepreneurial spirit, willingness to invest public dollars (though this is decreasing alarmingly) and open attitude to bringing the smartest people in the […]

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Peggy Orenstein’s “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer” – a stage we are going through

  • by oliverbogler
  • Posted on April 25, 2013April 25, 2013
  • dialog on breast cancer

In a must-read article about the state of breast cancer awareness, medicine and research Peggy Orenstein exposes some of the harsh realities that are often left out of the pink conversation (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/our-feel-good-war-on-breast-cancer.html) Primarily focusing on […]

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day 217 – hurts so good – physical therapy post-mastectomy

  • by oliverbogler
  • Posted on April 24, 2013April 24, 2013
  • my journey

I wrote a couple of weeks ago (day 191) about the rather surprising change in my body, post-surgery: the abrupt loss of the ability to feel touch, while still feeling pressure, around the scar area […]

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day 205 – more positive nodes, an upgrade to my tumor grade & I start the big T

  • by oliverbogler
  • Posted on April 12, 2013April 11, 2013
  • my journey

I’ve been chewing on this for a few days before getting to a point where I can write about it, but soon after the operation my surgeon shared the path report with me, and it […]

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Men get breast cancer, too

  • by oliverbogler
  • Posted on April 11, 2013May 8, 2013
  • dialog on breast cancer

Originally posted on My Eyes Are Up Here:
Today’s Health Activist Writer’s Challenge inspired post is about men with breast cancer. Scorchy, of The Sarcastic Boob posted a link to her new FaceBook page to…

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day 202 – surgery is over

  • by oliverbogler
  • Posted on April 9, 2013April 9, 2013
  • my journey

Yesterday, one day shy of 2 weeks post-operation, I had my second drain pulled, and as my surgeon’s PA said as she was pulling it out, that marks the end of surgery. Compared to chemo, […]

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