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Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.
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Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 23 recommendations
- Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...
How long since stage IV diagnosis?
- By chainsawz · Posted July 10, 2009
- Discussion in Taking charge: Being a proactive patient · 20 recommendations
- One year ago, I received an initial stage IV diagnosis. I was helped by reading the posts of other women who fought the alligators for so long. I realized I could also fight this disease! I just wanted ...
Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- Journal · 12 recommendations
- We're happy to announce that you can now stay in touch with what's happening at Inspire by following us on both Twitter and Facebook. While Inspire communities are still the best places to connect with ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 10 recommendations
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
Uh Oh I am really Dying Soon
- By JudyV · Posted September 28, 2009
- Journal · 8 recommendations
- Every now and then it hits. It hit tonight, big time. I wanted to call someone, but who do you call to say something like that? Who would understand how this realization can just suddenly flood over me ...
A Very Open Letter from an Oncologist
- By gpawelski · Posted August 8, 2009
- Journal · 7 recommendations
- A Medical Director at California Cancer Care, an oncology practice in Northern California wrote a candid letter to the Health Beat blog by Maggie Mahar. He is a member of The Century Foundation's Working ...
Lost your health insurance? Got Breast Cancer? Read this!
- By Pam-Pam · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 6 recommendations
- This is my story: I had lost my insurance when our business collapsed. We had spent all our savings trying to keep the business afloat. We had assets, our home was paid for, etc, so we didn't qualify ...
Dancing on the abyss
- By yesshecan · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 6 recommendations
- Silent home. Cat sleeps. Dog sleeps. Cancer sleeps. PET scan came back with NED. Yet I am aware, so keenly aware that cancer can sleep and hide and edge forward when it choses. I dance on the abyss. Stare ...
I Got Busted Removed From Site. And It's Okay!
- By GRANDmother19 · Posted October 15, 2009
- Journal · 6 recommendations
- I Got Busted By The Powers That Be, was removed entirely from the site because, and I quote, "it was degenerating into an unproductive expletive fest where members were telling others to "f**k off" and ...
Neurontin for pain management/neuropathy
- By gpawelski · Posted November 12, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- I've written before that anecdotally, drugs like Neurontin are used off-label. Most drugs are prescribed off-label. One must be cautious that off-label remedies are fully discussed with patients and must ...
A Lazy Susan for your side table or nightstand
- By JudyV · Posted November 13, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- I was telling someone about this little wonder, and decided to share it more widely by making a journal entry out of it. I recently recited what I keep on the table by my "seat" in the den, the place ...
We Get By With a Little Help From Our Friends
- By Shanti · Posted October 28, 2009
- Discussion in Living with cancer · 2 recommendations
- When I read this blog entry from Dr. David Servan-Schreiber. the author of Anti-Cancer, A New Way of Life, I immediately thought of my support group here at Inspire. Getting by, with a little help from ...
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
- By nutrachris · Posted November 22, 2009
- Discussion in Taking charge: Being a proactive patient · 1 recommendation
- The annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium will be held from December 9 thru December 13, 2009. I highly reccomend this meeting. www.sabcs.org Over 8,000 breast cancer healthcare professionals will ...
My Feet Hurt
- By Mannasaurus · Posted November 20, 2009
- Discussion in Living with cancer · 1 recommendation
- Hello all. I know I've read that this is common after chemo. My feet started hurting toward the end of the chemo treatments (taxotere/carboplatin) but now they hurt even more and its been 4 months since ...
How to Protect Yourself from Fraud
- By Saraj · Posted November 12, 2009
- Discussion in Treatment options · 1 recommendation
- This link is on the Cancer.net website, which is sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncologists. There have been some questions about different alternative treatments. I thought this article ...
Is It Real? Can it be?
- By JudyV · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- This strange life I am living now ... is it real? Who could have imagined this. I am 66. All my young years, thinking of my senior years would have put me on a cruise ship, living in a condo in Florida ...
RE: Article from New York Times - Quandry for women over breast screenings
- By MarionBCDIY · Posted November 5, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- In our local paper today, there was an article regarding the controversy over mammograms -- after reading the whole article I think the most important statement came from Dr. Larry Norton, deputy physician ...
tiny progression.....stable?
- By curlee · Posted October 31, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- had my lung scan and onc said stable. my largest tumor went from 1.9 to 2.1. is this stable? no mention of other tumors. will question further. am on xeloda for 3 months. i week on 1 week off 5 pills ...
Hope in Epigenetic Research
- By Shanti · Posted October 26, 2009
- Discussion in Living with cancer · 1 recommendation
- This could be the future of cancer treatments. Dream Team: Bringing Epigenetic Therapy to the Forefront of Cancer Management Overview: Researchers have discovered that there are additional layers of material ...
foods that fight cancer
- By mog · Posted November 13, 2008
- Discussion in Taking charge: Being a proactive patient · 1 recommendation
- Hi everyone, I'm 40 with two small kids, just diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer, bone mets in 4 places. Needless to say, I am freaking out, but along with hormone treatment (Tamoxifen and zoladex ...
