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	<title>my Breast Cancer blog &#187; Diagnosis</title>
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	<description>this is the story of my journey with breast cancer</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Survivor&#8221; Jennifer Lyon Dies of Breast Cancer</title>
		<link>http://cancerspot.org/2010/01/20/survivor-jennifer-lyon-dies-of-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death & dying]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former &#8220;Survivor&#8221; contestant Jennifer Lyon died on Tuesday night. Breast cancer. She was 37.
And this is exactly why I can work myself into a tizzy about the disease: because very young and otherwise healthy women die from it, and since I&#8217;ve had it, and there&#8217;s a chance it will come back, it&#8217;s pretty hard to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pointers for Pampering the Princess</title>
		<link>http://cancerspot.org/2009/12/30/pointers-for-pampering-the-princess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denise Hazen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[princess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treat Her Like a Princess]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you have breast cancer, consider yourself a princess. Well, if you&#8217;re a girl, anyway. If you&#8217;re a boy and you have the disease (it happens), let&#8217;s go with &#8220;prince.&#8221;
For the purposes of this post, I&#8217;ll focus on the gals, because heaven knows they are the chosen group for this hated disease &#8212; the American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wishing You Well</title>
		<link>http://cancerspot.org/2009/12/19/wishing-you-well/</link>
		<comments>http://cancerspot.org/2009/12/19/wishing-you-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hair loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Survivors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mastectomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconstruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tram flap surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[well wishes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cancerspot.org/?p=3514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sending out some well wishes to a few friends &#8212; Carmen, who, on her second run with breast cancer, is recovering from tram flap surgery. And Lynea, she&#8217;s navigating the murky waters that come flooding in after a new breast cancer diagnosis. Also, Stacie, sporting a newly-shaved head as she fights her way through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Famous People Fighting Cancer</title>
		<link>http://cancerspot.org/2009/12/12/famous-people-fighting-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://cancerspot.org/2009/12/12/famous-people-fighting-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryant Gumbel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Zohn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kareen Abdul-Jabbar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Joosten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa Etheridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PEOPLE magazine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cancerspot.org/?p=3465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One quick spin through the online pages of PEOPLE magazine, and I turned up a whole bunch of celebrity cancer news. I guess I&#8217;ve been letting famous folks fall of my radar (I do love a little Hollywood gossip), because I had no idea that Bryant Gumbel is being treated for a malignant tumor in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautifully Benign</title>
		<link>http://cancerspot.org/2009/11/24/beautifully-benign/</link>
		<comments>http://cancerspot.org/2009/11/24/beautifully-benign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second opinions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Survivors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fibrocystic disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MRI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surgeon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cancerspot.org/?p=3364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, on November 24, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. And today, on another November 24, I learned that my recent MRI, showing some suspicious little nodules, is nothing to worry about. The news comes from my surgeon, who offered me a second opinion. The first opinion, by the way, was that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flashback: November 24, 2004</title>
		<link>http://cancerspot.org/2009/11/24/november-24-2004/</link>
		<comments>http://cancerspot.org/2009/11/24/november-24-2004/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lumpectomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pathology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radiation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cancerspot.org/?p=3298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My phone rang at 10:00 a.m., and the doctor who did the biopsy said the pathology report was back already. He said that unfortunately, cancer cells were found. He said I would need a lumpectomy (surgery to remove the lump), radiation, and possibly chemotherapy. He told me to buy a book called Dr. Susan Love’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Mammograms at 40, No Self-Exams at All</title>
		<link>http://cancerspot.org/2009/11/17/no-mammograms-at-40-no-self-exams-at-all/</link>
		<comments>http://cancerspot.org/2009/11/17/no-mammograms-at-40-no-self-exams-at-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast self-exams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mammograms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cancerspot.org/?p=3275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I find it pretty odd that the task force of 16 declaring women don&#8217;t need mammograms starting at age 40 anymore does not include any oncologists &#8212; what? &#8212; I won&#8217;t spend too much time arguing about this topic. I just don&#8217;t have the tools to determine whether or not this is a good [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Slim Down to Cut Your Cancer Risk</title>
		<link>http://cancerspot.org/2009/11/16/slim-down-to-cut-your-cancer-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://cancerspot.org/2009/11/16/slim-down-to-cut-your-cancer-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body fat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Bowden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overweight]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cancerspot.org/?p=3262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t always true, because I was not overweight prior to my breast cancer diagnosis (which means something else caused my unfortunate turn of events), but carrying around extra fat on your body is definitely linked to an increased risk for developing the disease. My friend, nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden says so &#8212; &#8220;Researchers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Breast Cancer Looks Like: Julia</title>
		<link>http://cancerspot.org/2009/10/29/what-breast-cancer-looks-like-julia/</link>
		<comments>http://cancerspot.org/2009/10/29/what-breast-cancer-looks-like-julia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Survivors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what-breast-cancer-looks-like]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer Vacation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cancerspot.org/?p=3070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, let me say that Julia&#8217;s website is not for the faint of heart. She admits it, with this statement on her blog: &#8220;CancerVacation.com features written material, illustrated artwork,  			digital artwork, and medically-themed photography that may contain  			nudity, blood, or other things that one might classify as &#8216;ooky&#8217;. If you are under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mammogram Bus Rolling Through Puerto Rico</title>
		<link>http://cancerspot.org/2009/09/16/mammogram-bus-rolling-through-puerto-rico/</link>
		<comments>http://cancerspot.org/2009/09/16/mammogram-bus-rolling-through-puerto-rico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pink route]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puerto rico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruta pink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[susan-g-komen-for-the-cure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With early detection often leading to a 98-percent survival rate, mammograms are essential for women over 35. Unfortunately, millions of American women are uninsured, and don’t have the means to afford an annual mammogram test. But in Puerto Rico, uninsured women are turning to a new program for help.
Last year, Doral Bank in Puerto Rico [...]]]></description>
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