#ScreamingForScreening

Cancer for Breakfast

Hold onto your headscarves, y’all! The guidelines have changed, and the whitecoats think we should stop feeling it on the first. Don’t they know how much #cancerpeople love a hashtag?! Mmhmm—multiple medical orgs have put the kibosh on breast cancer screening until age 45. The gals (Amy and Stef, not a gross euphemism for boobs) are fired up and taking on big Cancer. Cancer dot gov, that is, AKA The American Cancer Society himself, and we won’t rest until there’s a mammogram machine in every Macy’s in America. Then, a listener shares about her newfound love…with a stage 4 renal cancer Romeo. Friends and fam are worried, but the heart wants what it wants. In the wise words of Zoë Kravitz’s dad, ya gotta let love rule! RATS dives deeper into the world of kidney cancer: what happens when your own immune system borks it? You take an immune checkpoint inhibitor, sweaty!

To learn more about immunotherapy for renal cell carcinoma, check out this article: https://www.uptodate.com/contents/systemic-therapy-of-advanced-clear-cell-renal-carcinoma#H2788680400

Read Josie Rubio’s piece in NYT titled Dating While Dying: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/opinion/sunday/dating-while-dying.html

And, correction: Josie had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma! Stef mistakenly said she had MBC.

Gotham Writers now offers the Josie Rubio Scholarship. Info here: https://blogs.gothamwriters.com/2021/04/19/the-josie-rubio-scholarship/

To read the American Cancer Society’s new(ish) guidelines on breast cancer screening, visit https://www.cancer.org/cancer/breast-cancer/screening-tests-and-early-detection/american-cancer-society-recommendations-for-the-early-detection-of-breast-cancer.html

Read stats on breast cancer under 40 diagnoses compiled by Young Survival Coalition: https://www.youngsurvival.org/learn/about-breast-cancer/statistics

The American College Of Radiology on the use of mammograms as a screening tool: https://www.acr.org/Media-Center/ACR-News-Releases/2018/New-Study-Cements-Fact-That-Mammography-is-a-Primary-Factor-in-Reduced-Breast-Cancer-Deaths

The bizarre article about the efficacy of BSEs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376382/

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