Like many breast cancer survivors, Joy Dunn feels compelled to take her personal fight to the next level, to join the larger battle against the disease as a whole. As an admissions coordinator at Life Care Center of New Port Richey, Dunn is a front-row observer of the health care industry. Added to her own experience, she realized that while raising funds and awareness are vital, she could best define her niche by taking the direct approach, to encourage women to face the disease head-on by getting mammograms. ...more

November 3, 2009

There's no mammogram or Pap smear for Alzheimer's disease. Yet an Alzheimer's group is pushing for simple memory screenings in a bid to catch possible warning signs of dementia sooner. ...more

March 7, 2009

There's no mammogram or Pap smear for Alzheimer's disease. Yet an Alzheimer's group is pushing for simple memory screenings in a bid to catch possible warning signs of dementia sooner. ...more

January 10, 2009

When Karen Lewandowski went for her first mammogram two years ago, her physician found a lump in her right breast. She was 44. ...more

August 27, 2008

Regarding "Experts No Longer Urging Monthly Breast Self-Exams" (Nation/World, July 31): ...more

August 4, 2008

March Against Cancer May and Mother's Day have come and gone. The candy has been eaten, flowers have wilted and jewelry put away. However, there is still time to give your mother another gift - a gift of a lifetime. ...more

June 6, 2008

"You have cancer." Those three words will test the spirit of even the strongest person. To hear them twice takes a special resilience. ...more

May 2, 2008

Last year at this time, I was recovering from surgery for early stage breast cancer and reeling from the news that I would have to endure four rounds of chemotherapy. After my first chemo a few weeks later, I was shaky, needed a nap in the middle of the day and couldn't walk more than a few hundred yards without huffing and puffing and calling it quits. ...more

October 26, 2007

The number of women having both breasts removed after a tumor is found in one increased by 150 percent over a five-year period, despite a lack of evidence showing that double mastectomies increase survival in most women, researchers reported Monday. ...more

October 23, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Hers was the simplest of messages – with the gravest of implications. Ginette Carpenter, of Lake Placid, used neatly printed words to write a letter on both sides of a single page of lined notebook paper – full of bad news and hope – and then gave it to seven of "The Ones I Know Love Me." She signed it "Love & Hugs" and included a smiley face next to her signature, but the message was anything but a regular letter to family and friends. ...more

October 22, 2007