Saying goodbye to Leigh Pate, lobular legend
Leigh and I met through writing, not cancer. We both had the same breast cancer – invasive lobular – but we got together initially because she wanted to chat about how to market some of the essays she...
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Writing, cancer registries and breast cancer recurrence rates
Ever get a question that sticks with you, that you can’t shake, that you keep ruminating on until you finally get an answer? My niggling question came in via email in the summer of 2015. The person...
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Cancer, COVID-19, science and learning to trust
Photo courtesy of Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service I’ve been too busy writing lately so I haven’t had much time to write. Does that make sense? Here’s the deal (as our fabulous new President...
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Cancer patients and the COVID-19 vaccines
Everybody should get vaccinated – even cancer patients and chorus girls! In my latest for Fred Hutch, the cancer/virus/disease research center where I work, I dig into some of the questions I’ve seen...
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Coronacrazy coverage of COVID-19’s impact on cancer patients and POC
Cancer and COVID-19: double trouble. Illustration by Kimberly Carney, Fred Hutch News Service Like a lot of people, I’ve been consuming a ton of COVID-19 news and new research. And because it’s my job,...
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Cancer and the coronavirus: hard prep
Ghecemy Lopez of Los Angeles, a two-time cancer survivor who now has immune issues. She dons plenty of PPE for her doctor’s visits. It’s pretty much been corona, corona, corona these last few months —...
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Coronavirus: what cancer patients need to know
So now there’s a pandemic. And my workplace and our scientists are right in the thick of it. I interviewed a couple of friends and Fred Hutch experts: one in infectious disease (Dr. Steve Pergam) and...
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Spinning science: how to cut through overhyped health news and medical...
My science writing team at Fred Hutch put together this series of stories to help the public — and especially cancer patients — cut through all the harmful health misinformation and overhyped nonsense...
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Breast cancer, blood clots and ‘bridging the gap’
Beautiful blood clot illustration by Kimberly Carney. I swear the last year has been a blur. Between the cancer whispering job at Fred Hutch, the cancer advocacy world and our crazy clown car...
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I’m having a moment
Discovered a new Twitter tool that I’m geeking out about a little. It’s called ‘Moments’ and it lets you string a bunch of tweets together — yours and others’ — to create a short story. It’s a bit...
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Your spring breast cancer advocacy roundup from Seattle
It’s been a busy few months in Cancer Advocacy Land and it’s going to get even busier as we head full on into spring. I’ll be lending my patient voice to a couple of Seattle conferences on cancer care...
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Meet the #LobMob of breast cancer
Illustration by Kimberly Carney / Fred Hutch News Service Finally got a chance to write about lobular breast cancer, my particular flavor, and profile rock star patient advocate (and friend) Leigh...
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Get your geek on – and connect with cancer peeps – at the NW MBC conference
Big doins in the world of mets these days. And by mets, I mean metastatic breast cancer, not the baseball team. And by big doins, I mean the upcoming Northwest Metastatic Breast Cancer conference,...
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The elephant in the bedroom – yeah, I talked about sex after cancer treatment
Illustration by Kimberly Carney / Fred Hutch News Service Sex after cancer is complicated. You know what else is complicated? Writing about sex after cancer. I tackled the topic last week in a two-part...
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Connecting and cancer whisperering
Me in 2011, post double mastectomy and mid-chemo. When I first started DoubleWhammied shortly after my breast cancer diagnosis in February 2011, it was because I needed a safe place to process all the...
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Coming to terms with your post-cancer body
Photo by Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service Once you’re flagged as somebody who might have cancer, you’re basically strapped onto the world’s worst carnival ride. The ride starts off slowly at first...
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What if people treated other cancers like they do breast cancer?
I’ve been recuperating at home the last week or so, healing up after my fourth and FINAL breast reconstruction surgery (just need to “dot the i’s” and I’m done, folks – high five!). Anyway, like any...
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Pardon my dust …
Just a note to let you know this site is under construction. Not the website: me. Since January 2013, I’ve been working with a great plastic surgeon at UW Medicine to reconstruct my girls, lost to...
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Reconstruction is not a boob job and other scary stories
October has been a bit of a crazy month for me. I had my second reconstruction surgery at the end of September – followed by a couple of post-op complications – so for weeks, I’ve just been trying to...
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Oversharing is caring
I was standing in line to check in at the plastic surgeon’s last week when a woman tapped me on the shoulder. “Excuse me,” she said. “Did you write about your breast reconstruction for the University...
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