As a breast cancer survivor, I feel particularly qualified to assert my opinion on the latest U. S. Preventive Services Task Force's guidelines regarding mammograms. I'm uncertain at this point exactly whose best interests are served by this organization, but as one whose "starting annual mammograms at age 40" prevented "one additional death," I hope my story merits publication in your newspaper. ...more

November 20, 2009

Things are tough these days, but for Charice Daly, the general miseries of 2009 are nothing compared to her personal circumstances. Now, some friends are putting together a fundraiser to help her through her personal nightmare. ...more

October 21, 2009

Olivia Newton-John wants women to get physical - again. The Grammy Award-winning singer recently launched a breast self-examination kit designed to encourage women to perform monthly checks along with routine checkups and mammograms. ...more

March 28, 2009

Cancer patients can use this device to warn health-care professionals not to perform tests on those suffering from lymphedema. ...more

February 20, 2009

Roughly 20 percent of women with breast cancer who should be receiving radiation therapy as a follow-up to surgery aren't getting it. Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center who conducted a study that uncovered this potentially deadly situation say the most common reason women cited for not considering radiation therapy was that their doctors did not recommend it. ...more

February 11, 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

TAMPA - Courtney Dempsey spent a good part of this afternoon in shock after hearing she and her fiancé won a $100,000 dream wedding in a contest sponsored by Us Weekly magazine. ...more

July 15, 2008

TAMPA A Tampa couple are in the running for a $100,000 wedding courtesy of Us Magazine. They are pitted against 19 other couples from across the nation baring their lives to the public in hopes of garnering enough votes to be hitched in style. The contest is online and in living color at www.usmagazine.com/wedding-2008-top-20, and as of this morning Courtney Dempsey and Gary Courtney Jr., have garnered about 90,000 votes. ...more

June 23, 2008

Hang around a small town long enough, and people will open their hearts to you. ...more

May 12, 2008

Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of South Florida will hold their third annual conference devoted to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer May 16 and 17 at the Hyatt Regency Tampa. ...more

May 10, 2008