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Month: March 2015

The Florida Keys: Nice place for a blood clot, but I wouldn’t want to live there

Published on March 18, 2015 by ekhb

So, a quick report on our vacation in the Florida Keys last week.  We stayed at three Airbnb places.  First, three days on a small houseboat anchored in a shallow bay near Key West, a 20-minute kayak paddle from shore.  Very small, no privacy, lots of climbing and clambering to use all levels inside and […]

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I never "got" the whole blogging thing. But things change when you get cancer. They change again when it comes back metastatic. So this is my way to share what's going on in my now-more-complicated life with my friends and family (and anyone else who finds it useful).
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  • Article on current and experimental treatments for triple-negative BRCA1 cancer
  • BCMets.org--Metastatic Breast Cancer Information and Support
  • Block Center for Comprehensive Cancer Treatment
  • BRCA mutations (a good explanation)
  • Clinical trials
  • How to tie a head scarf (for bald heads)
  • Info on one PARP inhibitor trial
  • Infographic on metastatic breast cancer & misunderstandings about it in the US
  • Interesting phase I trial of Keytruda/pembrolizumab (PD-L1 inhibitor)
  • LA Times article "How not to say the wrong thing"
  • Medscape Breast Cancer news
  • SHARE blog about metastatic breast cancer
  • Sharsheret
  • Something you can do when you wonder "what can I do to help?" post-someone's-diagnosis
  • Steven Jay Gould on cancer-survival statistics
  • The Stram Center for Integrative Medicine

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  • 2013 & ONWARD
    • England trip: Beyond London, September 24-27 (part 2)
    • England trip: London, September 21-23 (part 1)
    • France trip: Aix-en-Provence, July 1-13, 2015 (part 1)
    • France trip: Aix-en-Provence, July 1-13, 2015 (part 2)
    • My smoothie recipe!
    • The e-mail update no one wants to send or receive (from 12/13)
    • PARP inhibitors
    • Chronomodulated chemotherapy
    • Eribulin (Halaven)
    • IV Vitamin C
  • 2006-2007 UPDATES
    • Ellen update 07/30/06 (aka Way Too Much Information)
    • Ellen update 08/18/06
    • Ellen update 08/27/06
    • Ellen update 09/11/06
    • Ellen update 10/3/06
    • bibliotherapy: sick
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