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Blogging About Breast Cancer - "Between Chemo and the School Gate"

Writing can help when you find yourself on an emotional roller coaster after receiving a diagnosis. Some patients share their writings on a blog. This helps others feel that they’re not alone.

Writing about your experiences is one way to come to terms with an illness. Many cancer patients do this. Cancer blogs also offer informational and emotional support to others dealing with the same illness. At the same time, they serve as a channel of communication between the blogger and the reader. Did you know that most bloggers are women and that the most commonly blogged-about illness is breast cancer?

We’d like to introduce you to the blog “Between Chemo and the School Gate,” written by Line, a young mother with breast cancer. She writes about her illness and how she keeps going. About searching, stumbling, laughing, and moving forward. About major obstacles and small moments of joy. If you’d like to support Line’s blog, you can do so via the “Buy Me a Coffee” button on her website.

Between Chemo and the School Gate

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Hereditary breast cancer is a sword of Damocles

Author and columnist Nele Reymen - sister of radio host Ann Reymen - will soon undergo a preventive double mastectomy and reconstruction. Like both her sisters, Nele Reymen is a carrier of a breast cancer gene. The sisters previously opted for the procedure. True hereditary breast cancer is sometimes confused with familial breast cancer. Both involve genes and yet there is a world of difference.
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Private cancer clinics are preying on desperate breast cancer patients

Claudia, a 37-year-old Dutch woman with metastatic breast cancer, traveled on May 8 to a private clinic in Mexico that promises to cure her. She sold her house and launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for the treatment. She shared her story on social media and hopes it will help others. Above all, we hope no one else follows her example.
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“Breast cancer isn’t just a women’s issue”: Stef (63) wants to break the taboo

October 7 is International Men’s Breast Cancer Day. In our society, a breast cancer diagnosis is often associated with women. Yet in Belgium, 100 men are diagnosed with the disease every year. Stef is 63 and discovered a lump in his breast three years ago. Since then, he has been working to break the taboo. “It can happen to anyone—including men.”

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