‘Be your own best advocate’: News4Jax reporter recounts health scare
Ashley Harding, a seasoned reporter on The Morning Show, had heard about and covered stories involving young women diagnosed with breast cancer, so she couldn't help but worry when she found a small lump the size of a BB during a breast self-exam three years ago.
Cancer survivors tell all: ‘I woke up from surgery missing a third of my right breast’
For someone who has never had to experience or endure breast cancer, it might be understandable that there are questions involved. Does a diagnosis typically come as a surprise, or do people often suspect that something feels not quite right?
Breast cancer survivors tell all: ‘Don’t let anyone say you’re too young, because it can happen to anyone’
For someone who has never had to experience or endure breast cancer, it might be understandable that there are questions involved. Does a diagnosis typically come as a surprise, or do people often suspect that something feels not quite right?
How to fight the fear of breast cancer recurrence
For many of the 3.8 million women in the U.S. who have survived breast cancer, there’s overwhelming fear the disease will come back. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 39. Johns and her colleagues conducted a clinical trial comparing three interventions for people struggling with fear of cancer recurrence. Acceptance and commitment therapy has been around for two decades, but Johns said it has never been used to help people struggling with fear of cancer recurrence until now. Researchers tested the interventions in a sample of 90 breast cancer survivors.