After treatment for cancer, it’s not uncommon to experience vaginal dryness or vaginal atrophy, incontinence, menopause symptoms, and significant hormonal and emotional changes. With a
by Tom Connolly Donald Connolly, born 1915, passed from Astrocytoma September 3rd, 1958. He was my dad, and September 3rd, the day he died was
A girl struggles to decide whether to be tested for the genetic mutation linked to her father’s cancer. Would it be better not to know
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Support LFS Hardship Grants by ordering an LFS Awareness Day Elephant Shirt! But… why elephants? The TP53 gene is a tumor-suppressor gene, often called “the
by Fannie Lemay – When I was diagnosed with Li-Fraumeni syndrome in 2016 and then three weeks later with stage 3 brain cancer, I felt
I took this photo and wrote the following in May of 2019, on my 10 year anniversary of moving home to San Diego from Australia. As
by Fannie Lemay I always loved to work. Even when I was cutting carrots at IGA for a living, I loved it. Well, maybe “love”
In 2002, I noticed a lump on the innerside of my upper left leg. The doctor thought of scar tissue caused by a mosquito bite,
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