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October 16, 2012
'Talk -- Share Your Experience -- It Could Help Someone Else'
Seven years after Maxine Missick battled stage two breast cancer and survived, she is encouraging people to talk about it. Sharing their experience she said could possibly help someone else.
'My Sister Did Not Have to Die'
October 09, 2012
'My Sister Did Not Have to Die'
Darlene Sands remembers the day well -- that day back in August 2011 when her older sister, Cindi Smith was told the cancer she had beaten just two years before had returned -- and that it had returned with a vengeance and had riddled her body.
Pink it in Paradise
October 05, 2012
Pink it in Paradise
Natasha Leggero's bio reads like this: For those of you who don't know, Natasha is a glamorous comedian who used to answer phones in a brothel. She was born to a used car dealer and a belly dancer. She sassed her way out of her parents' house and into foster care where she drove a bus to pay for her French kissing lessons.
Seeking foreign saviors in the cancer fight
September 17, 2012
Seeking foreign saviors in the cancer fight
Dear Editor,
I write this letter with deep consternation after reading this Komen blog (http://blog.komen.org/?p=1339) and the press reports on the Susan G. Komen and Ministry of Health announcement of a $100,000 gift to launch a breast cancer program yesterday, September 12.
It also strikes me as so ironic that, exactly one month away from Christopher Columbus' "Discovery" date we, who are suppo...
Help us save women like Yvette
March 07, 2012
Help us save women like Yvette
By BRITTANY KEMP and
MICHELLE GREENE
BREAST cancer has torn apart countless lives in the Bahamas, a fact Yvette Cargill knows well - not just as the former president of the Sister Sister support group, but also as a survivor of the disease.
She was diagnosed on July 27, 2000 at the age of 38, and underwent surgery on August 5, 2000, followed by a radical mastectomy of her left breast and four c...
Loving life more than breasts
December 20, 2011
Loving life more than breasts
Twenty-seven. It's the age when Antonyche Cooper thought she'd be winding down her "clubbing" days and really focusing on settling down. She dreamed of finally completing her banking and finance degree. It's an age she figured she'd at least be leaving home and looking forward to meeting "Mr. Right," getting married and starting a family of her own. It's an age when she thought her years of maki...
A Father's Worst Nightmare
October 25, 2011
A Father's Worst Nightmare
No parent ever wants to outlive their child.? They dream of giving their children a good education, seeing them established in their career, get married and raise families of their own.? Father of six, Anthony "Skeebo" Roberts had just such thoughts, and never dreamed he would lose two of his three daughters to cancer, at very young ages, or that they would die a mere three years apart.
Bald, beautiful surviving
October 09, 2011
Bald, beautiful surviving
No one ever thinks they will develop cancer. Cassandra Lewis-Moore was one of those people. The 34-year-old thought there was a possibility she would get diabetes as it'runs'in her family, but she never thought cancer would happen to her. But during the eighth month of pregnancy with her first child in October 2010, she felt a huge lump in one of her breasts. She knew something was wrong. She soug...
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