MY MOTHER DIED OF BREAST CANCER 25 YEARS AGO – It was a Beautiful Morning, just like Today!
By Karin Lippert Toronto, Canada April 22, 2010 Today, it is 25 years since my mother, Wilhelmine “Mimi” Lippert died of inflammatory breast cancer at age 65. It was a beautiful morning, just like today! We had spent three days with her while she was lying in a coma in our living room as family […]
BREAST CANCER – What Women in Second Adulthood Need to Know about the New Guidelines on Mammography Screening
Barbara Glickstein, host of NPR’s “Healthstyles” and Public Health Nurse Executive, on the Current Controversy The release of a report suggesting that women should begin regular mammograms at 50 instead of forty shouldn’t obscure the fact that women over fifty should most definitely be conscientious about scheduling annual mammograms: Here is what I wrote last […]