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New Mammography Screening Guidelines Irresponsible By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 17-Nov-09 | 4:39 PM   A step back in the fight against breast cancer was taken today by the US Preventative Task Force when it announced its new screening recommendations that mammograms should start at age 50 and be every two years from 50 to ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 667 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! Get It Right....The First Time By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 20-Oct-09 | 3:06 PM   Newsweek will publish an article titled, “What You Don’t Know Might Kill You” by Sharon Begley and Jeneen Interlandi in their October 26, 2009 edition.  It is a report examining the disparity of cancer care in the country today and a ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 589 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! Health Reform: Don’t Put The Cart Before The Horse! By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 03-Sep-09 | 6:59 PM   Meaningful health care reform must be accomplished; sooner rather than later, to avoid deepening the national debt, however, rushing a plan through Congress without all the pieces in place isn’t the answer to the tune-up we need.    Most Americans are satisfied ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 742 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! Survivors Live It - With Humor and Optimism By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 30-Jun-09 | 9:25 PM   Our NavigateCancer Foundation celebration of National Cancer Survivorship Month is complete as we introduce you to a 76 year old professional umpire; retired high school teacher and cancer survivor who believes that the lessons he learned from his parents, the ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 898 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! Survivors Live It - With Gratitude and Grace By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 15-Jun-09 | 8:11 PM   Our NavigateCancer Foundation celebration of National Cancer Survivorship Month continues as we introduce you to a very special cancer survivor with an unbelievable tale of gratitude and grace.      Chrissy Fowler, a beautiful, humble woman, who is only 40 years old and ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 899 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! Survivors Live It - With Courage and Determination By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 02-Jun-09 | 12:10 PM   Cancer survivors are very special people with very special challenges. Their common bond is knowing what it is like to hear three life-changing words, “You have cancer”. They are the only ones who know how to live each day with the ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 841 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! Let Your Will Be Known By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 15-Apr-09 | 9:33 PM   They are words commonly spoken, “It just happened so fast” or “We didn’t have time to get it together” or”I just don’t know what he would want”.  Talking with family members about the end of life is a difficult topic ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 926 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! Patrick Swayze, A Reluctant Hero By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 27-Jan-09 | 11:24 AM   Patrick Swayze, an actor best known for his role in the film, “Dirty Dancing” is in the fight for his life. Swayze has started speaking publicly about living (and dying) with an advanced stage of pancreatic cancer.  In a recent TV ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 1369 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! Cancer Care is Unevenly Given By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 02-Dec-08 | 7:01 PM   We hear so much about our health care system in the news and from our politicians.  Each of us has experienced good and bad medical care. But do we know if we are receiving quality cancer care? Does the US healthcare ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 972 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! Improve Chances By Easing Side Effects By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 19-Sep-08 | 3:56 PM   Many cancer patients drop their doses, shorten their treatments or never complete their prescribed course because of difficult side effects caused by chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments. This common problem can impact the outcome.  Because of this, we need to ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 888 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! Holistic Cancer Care...You Gotta Have It! By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 13-Aug-08 | 1:53 PM   It is not headline news that a holistic approach to cancer care is mandatory to successful cancer management. Overwhelming data has proven that cancer patients respond far better and greatly improve their quality of life when involved in an exercise program, ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 877 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! NavigateCancer: What is it you do, exactly? By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 03-Jul-08 | 5:09 PM   As the website launched, it became increasingly apparent that health professionals understood the mission and accepted it with great enthusiasm...but patients didn’t seem to grasp what the services really are or how they can benefit.   Once explained, the concept is easily ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 955 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog! NavigateCancer Fills Cancer Care Gaps By Sharon Bigelow RN MSN ANP-BC AOCNP | 20-Apr-08 | 10:34 PM   The creation of the NavigateCancer Foundation was a natural evolution of my career as a "friend of a friend of a friend" called me to assist in guiding their cancer care. Calls came with the diagnosis or the relapse.  “What ... [ read more ]   Subscribe | Leave a Comment | 976 views Email Address: By subscribing, you will be alerted via email each time there is a new entry to this blog Enter your email: Enter friends email: Hi - I thought you might enjoy reading this blog!

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