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Support your group and raise awareness with badges
- By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
- Journal · 33 recommendations
- Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...
Welcome from TeamInspire!
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- Journal · 25 recommendations
- Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 22 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 ...
Sometimes we make mistakes
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
- Journal · 19 recommendations
- Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 9 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 ...
Dancing on the abyss
- By yesshecan · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 5 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 ...
HPV Reinfection
- By corellin · Posted August 11, 2008
- Discussion in Early detection and testing · 5 recommendations
- HPV is a skin disease that to establish infection must infect the basal layer. It enters through minor trauma and can infect cells in the cervix, vagina, anus, etc., but won't necessarily infect all cells ...
Learning to Cope with Cancer
- By mamafrog33 · Posted April 9, 2008
- Journal · 5 recommendations
- As a cancer patient or a caregiver, you will learn so much about a devastating disease that rarely leaves survivors. Everyone is hoping and praying for a cure to be found quickly, but more research is ...
Positive Experience with LEEP
- By mmk1383 · Posted January 8, 2009
- Discussion in HPV/cervical cancer vaccine prevention strategies · 4 recommendations
- Please share your positive experiences with LEEP. I think it would inspire many women to make the right decisions to get it done, while most of these postings make it very fearful ...
Your NCCC Meeting on cervical cancer and HPV....
- By aileen · Posted October 13, 2009
- Discussion in Finding emotional support · 2 recommendations
- Well, it is over but still in our hearts. The annual NCCC www.nccc-online.org conference has ended. WATCH for the upcoming NCCC electornic newsletter to capture highlights of the conference. See the NCCC ...
Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma.
- By Momma24boys · Posted December 7, 2008
- Discussion in Cervical cancer stages and treatment · 2 recommendations
- On the 31st of October I was diagnosed with cervical cancer... 7 days later I already had an appointment with a Gyn-onc and he made me aware that it was a pretty serious type of cervical cancer known ...
Experimental Vaccine Targets Genital Cancer
- By meliza4 · Posted November 5, 2009
- Discussion in HPV/cervical cancer vaccine prevention strategies · 1 recommendation
- To all ladies: This looks promising!!! I've copied/pasted the article here but here's the link. http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/h pv-genital-warts/news/20091104/experimen tal-vaccine-targets-genital-cancer?ecd=w ...
Should Boys get the HPV Vaccine? Who should pay for it?
- By aileen · Posted November 3, 2009
- Discussion in HPV/cervical cancer vaccine prevention strategies · 1 recommendation
- Well, we now know the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved one of the HPV vaccines for boys too. The approval is to help stop genital warts. The FDA approval was not to stop cancer in boys/men ...
will i get a period after cervical cancer
- By movingon · Posted October 28, 2009
- Discussion in Sexuality after cancer · 1 recommendation
- I am 25 and I found out in january that I had stage 3 cervical cancer with 2 positive lymph nodes. My surgeon moved an ovary up to hopefully prevent menopause. I then went through 6 chemo treatments 25 ...
Cervical cancer- HPV New Movie DVD
- By aileen · Posted October 18, 2009
- Discussion in HPV/cervical cancer vaccine prevention strategies · 1 recommendation
- See the NEW DVD movie on cervical cancer and HPV. MAKING A DIFFERENCE on the home Page of the NCCC at: www.nccc-online.org You can get a FREE copy at the NCCC!! GO FOR IT ...
FB and Twitter challenges at the conference.
- By ShaundraNCCC-AZ · Posted October 12, 2009
- Discussion in HPV/cervical cancer vaccine prevention strategies · 1 recommendation
- The conference was a huge success! However, I need to apologize for the lack of FB posts and twittering on my behalf. It turns out that our large conference room had very limited phone signal so those ...
