What is HER2-low Breast Cancer?
HER2-low is a new way to characterize breast cancer. This blog will cover HER2-low by delving into what it is and how it is treated.
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Breast Cancer and Fitness: Your Exercise Guide
Learn how exercise can help manage breast cancer-related challenges and expert advice on staying active during and after treatment.
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Navigating Life with Neuropathy Induced by Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is a treatment for breast cancer. Learn how to navigate nerve damage caused by chemotherapy, known as peripheral neuropathy.
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Breast Cancer: Signs and Diagnosis
Let us take you through how to check your breasts, the key signs to look out for, and the process of breast cancer diagnosis.
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Chemotherapy and breast cancer: All you need to know
Chemotherapy is a treatment for breast cancer. Learn how chemotherapy works, the different types and what to expect from treatment.
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Chemotherapy and Breast Cancer: Navigating Treatment Safely
Chemotherapy is a treatment for breast cancer. Take steps to manage your health and well-being to navigate chemotherapy treatment safely.
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Metastatic breast cancer: pathology, signs, and diagnosis
Metastatic breast cancer occurs when cancer spreads beyond the breast and lymph nodes, to other parts of the body.
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Immunotherapy Uncovered: A Guide for Breast Cancer
Immunotherapy boosts the immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells. This blog covers types of immunotherapy for breast cancer.
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Understanding Your Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Guide
It can be difficult to understand the information about your breast cancer diagnosis, this blog will break it down for you.
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15 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Was First Diagnosed With Breast Cancer
A blog written by Carly Moosah listing 15 things she wishes she’d have known when first diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Triple Negative and Me: TNBC and its treatments
If you have Triple Negative breast cancer, find out exactly what triple negative is and how it can affect your treatment plan.
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Tamoxifen: what you should and shouldn’t avoid
Tamoxifen is one of the widely prescribed breast cancer treatments for premenopausal women.But, did you know that the effectiveness of this drug can be boosted or compromised based on everyday foods and drinks?
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Choosing To Go Flat Instead of Breast Reconstruction
In this blog, the Breast Advocate® team discuss the process of choosing to go flat after breast cancer surgery.
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How to deal with Tamoxifen side effects
In this blog we explain how tamoxifen works, common side effects and management strategies to help deal with these.
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Self Advocacy and Breast Cancer
Self advocacy and being an active participant in your health care team is a process. Useful approaches may vary between individuals. This blog aims to help those who wish to further participate and have a more active role in their own care but feel unsure how to begin.
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Cancer Related Fatigue is not “just tiredness”
Cancer-related fatigue is a common and weakening side effects of cancer. People with cancer know what being tired normally feels like; this feeling of fatigue is different.
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BRCA: the inherited risk of breast cancer
BRCA is one of the most well-known genes influencing the risk of cancer. Explore exactly what it is, the associated risk of breast cancer, and treatments in development to target these genes.
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Hot flushes: What causes them and how to manage them
Are you experiencing hot flushes? This blog explores what causes them and tips to help you manage them.
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Hair Loss & Cancer Treatment – Why does it happen and what can I do about it?
In partnership with HeadWrappers this blog looks at cancer treatment related hair loss and management techniques.
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Urogenital Problems and Breast Cancer Treatment
While not always discussed in the doctor’s office, breast cancer treatment can have an effect on the genital and urinary areas.
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What is Chemo-brain and what can I do about it?
Find out about possible causes and treatment options for the cancer side effect commonly referred to as chemo brain.
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Tumour gene tests: What are they and why should you know about them?
Genomic tests have changed how cancer is treated. In this blog we explain the objective and the different types of genomic tests available.
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Hormone therapy resistance: What you should know
Find out what hormone therapy resistance means, how it happens, and how it may affect you and your treatment plan.
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Your Pathology Results Explained
Your pathology results contain valuable information that will determine the type of treatment you receive. This can help you better understand your diagnosis and treatment plan. Start learning all the nitty-gritty details of a pathology report!
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