I hope you're enjoying your summer and spending lots of quality time with your family and friends. My daughter and I were recently interviewed for an article about breast cancer survivors and their teens in the current issue of MAMM Magazine. Click on the image to the right to read the article. I find MAMM Magazine to be very helpful. It's published bi-monthly and full of news and information about breast cancer. Check it out!
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Keep Healthy,
Vicki Tashman
Founder
Pink-Link
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Shun the Sun
 by Annet King, Pink-Link Skin Care Expert
In spite of two
decades of aggressive public information campaigns about the dangers of
exposing the unprotected skin to the sun, skin cancer incidence continues to
rise in the USA.
Although skin cancers are not restricted to fair-skinned Northern European
types, reported cases continue to climb in the Anglo-Celtic derived populations
of Australia, and even my
native UK, where it rains a
lot (must be all of those holidays in sunny Sardinia and Greece that
Londoners love!).
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Six "L's" of Caring and Coping-
Keep Friends and Family in the Loop
by Dave Balch, Founder
The Patient/Partner Project
As caregiver, one of the most
difficult things for me was keeping everyone informed about my wife's
progress. We would come home from a
grueling day of medical appointments or tests to sometimes find as many as 14
messages on our answering machine from well-meaning people that truly cared,
who wanted to know "How is she feeling?" or "What did the doctor say?" or
"What's next?"
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