I get so frustrated sometimes when I see people post 'We must find a cure!' and things like that on FB because I know that we HAVE cures (or at least, extremely effective treatments) for many types of cancer.  My mom and older sister were both successfully treated for early stage cancer in the past two years.   Both are effectively cured.  My ( Read more... )

My sister had her surgery today, and the news couldn't have been any better.  The surgery took only about 1.5 hours (they'd said it could be 2-4 hours), and they found that the tumor didn't penetrate the lining of the uterus and didn't have roots (this is all 3rd hand filtered through my non-medically-inclined brother-in-law AND my baby sister, but ( Read more... )