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Yonkers tattoo artist colors in the details after breast cancer surgery 22 Oct 2012 | 06:16 pm
This story by features writer Heather Salerno ran in Life & Style on Oct. 21. Photo by Tania Savayan. Carrie Pataky enters an exam room at a plastic surgeon’s office in Scarsdale and introduces herse...
Breast cancer talismans bring smiles, ease pain 12 Oct 2012 | 06:15 pm
Here’s a story by Karen Croke that ran in the Life & Style section on Oct. 11. Photos by Tania Savayan. Call them good luck charms, or talismans, or simply smile inducers on the darkest of days, but f...
Chat on Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer, 1 p.m. on Oct. 9 9 Oct 2012 | 01:06 am
Join us at 1 p.m. Tuesday, when we’ll chat with Una Hopkins, a nurse practitioner with training in cancer genetics at White Plains Hospital’s Dickstein Cancer Treatment Center. You can sign up for a r...
Learn more about testing for the breast cancer genes 8 Oct 2012 | 09:41 pm
This information also ran in Sunday’s Life & Style section about testing for the breast cancer genes. WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT GENETIC TESTING FOR BRCA A woman’s chance of developing breast cancer, ovarian ...
A mother’s choice 8 Oct 2012 | 09:37 pm
Here’s a story that ran in Sunday’s Life & Style section by reporter Heather Salerno. All photos are by Tania Savayan. A mother’s choice: Allison Gilbert tests positive for breast cancer gene, makes l...
A Recap of the Twitter Chat with Rica Mendes 5 Oct 2012 | 08:46 pm
Read blog posts, see Tweets and follow links in this recap of our Twitter chat with Rica Mendes, a Livestrong Leader, LoHud.com blogger and a breast cancer survivor, about the challenges of coping wit...
Rica’s story, one year later 4 Oct 2012 | 11:31 pm
In case you missed it, here’s the story that ran Monday in Life & Style: Treatment over, blogger Rica Mendes looks ahead to the next chapter of life Last October, Rica Mendes shared her fight against ...
Rica Mendes: One Year Later 2 Oct 2012 | 11:15 pm
Rica Mendes, who blogged about her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment here on this blog on LoHud.com last year, says she feels more like a “recoverer” than a “survivor.” Tania Savayan / The Journal...
A Survivor’s Story and more breast cancer awareness coverage 30 Sep 2012 | 06:00 pm
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and tomorrow, The Journal News begins its annual special coverage of this important topic with a story about South Salem’s Rica Mendes, who blogged about her...
Beyond breast cancer: Rica Mendes continues to battle, and share, her courageous story 22 Nov 2011 | 06:34 am
Reporter Linda Lombroso wrote this story on our blogger, Rica Mendes, for the Sunday Life section on Nov. 20, 2011: Every Sunday, we write about residents we call “rock stars,” but few of them are ac...
