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January 17, 2013

Drawing Attention To High-risk Screening

Posted in: Risk Management , Guidelines
Tags: BRCA , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Hereditary Cancer Research , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , Prophylactic Surgery , Survivor , Ovarian Cancer Early Detection , HBOC , USPSTF , Screening And Prevention

January 01, 2013

Volunteer Spotlight - Tara Freundlich

Posted in: Volunteer Spotlight
Tags: FORCE , Volunteer

December 12, 2012

Clinical Trials for Hereditary Cancer: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Posted in: Research
Tags: BRCA , Breast Cancer , Hereditary Cancer Research , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , FDA , Clinical Trials , PARP Inhibitor

December 03, 2012

Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Screening Mammography

Posted in: Research , Risk Management
Tags: BRCA , Breast Cancer , Hereditary Cancer Research , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , Young Survivor , HBOC , USPSTF , Screening And Prevention

November 01, 2012

Volunteer Spotlight - Heather Fineman

Posted in: Volunteer Spotlight
Tags: FORCE , Volunteer

October 31, 2012

A Healing Light From Within

Posted in: Inspirational , FORCE And FORCE Impact
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Survivor , Young Survivor , HBOC

September 26, 2012

Previvor Day: A Solemn Celebration

Posted in: Inspirational , Voices
Tags: BRCA , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Genetic Counseling , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor

September 14, 2012

Voices: Discovering Our Past Through Genealogy

Posted in: Inspirational , Voices
Tags: Geneaology , Inspiration

September 06, 2012

13 Developments That Have Helped the HBOC Community

Posted in: Hereditary Cancer - General
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Hereditary Cancer Research , Ovarian Cancer , Genetic Testing , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA2 , Previvor , Ovarian Cancer Early Detection , Oophorectomy

August 06, 2012

Applying Personalized Medicine to Disease Screening and Prevention

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: BRCA , Genetics , Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Hereditary Cancer Research , Ovarian Cancer , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Prophylactic Surgery , Survivor , Ovarian Cancer Early Detection , HBOC , Prostate Cancer , PSA , USPSTF , Early Detection , Personalized Medicine , Screening And Prevention

July 10, 2012

13 Things That Jewish People Should Know About Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer

Posted in: Genetic Testing
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Jewish

June 26, 2012

Lucky 21 - For Dan

Posted in: Inspirational , FORCE And FORCE Impact
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Ovarian Cancer , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Prophylactic Surgery , Survivor , Young Survivor , HBOC

June 01, 2012

13 Facts that Men with Hereditary Cancer Risk Should Know

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Men With Mutations
Tags: BRCA , Genetics , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , Survivor , Prostate Cancer , USPSTF

April 27, 2012

13 Tips for Incorporating Fitness into Your Life

Posted in: Health And Fitness
Tags: BRCA , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Hereditary Cancer Research , Ovarian Cancer , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , Survivor , Exercise , Fitness

April 10, 2012

Voices: Pancreatic Cancer Screening

Posted in: Inspirational , Voices
Tags: BRCA2 , Pancreatic Cancer Detection

April 02, 2012

Overall Health: Addressing the Big Picture

Posted in: Hereditary Cancer - General
Tags: BRCA , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Hereditary Cancer Research , Ovarian Cancer , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , Prophylactic Surgery , Survivor , Exercise , Fitness , Ovarian Cancer Early Detection , HBOC

March 16, 2012

Voices of FORCE: Knowledge IS Power

Posted in: Inspirational , Voices
Tags: BRCA , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , Prophylactic Surgery , Survivor

March 05, 2012

Why Shouldn’t We Have It All?

Posted in: Inspirational , Voices
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Hereditary Cancer Research , Ovarian Cancer , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , Prophylactic Surgery , Survivor , Young Survivor , Ovarian Cancer Early Detection , HBOC

December 31, 2011

Happy New Year and Happy Birthday to FORCE

Posted in: FORCE And FORCE Impact
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor

December 24, 2011

Of Holiday Miracles and Possibilities

Posted in: Inspirational , Voices
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Ovarian Cancer , Genetic Testing , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , Prophylactic Surgery , Survivor , HBOC

November 29, 2011

Reconstruction: Many changes, many choices

Posted in: Breast Reconstruction And Going Flat
Tags: Reconstruction Or Going Flat , Mastectomy , No Reconstruction , Going Flat

November 23, 2011

An Unexpected Gift

Posted in: Inspirational , FORCE And FORCE Impact
Tags:

September 24, 2011

Strong, Fit and Beautiful From Cancer Survivor to Figure Competitor

Posted in: Health And Fitness
Tags: Exercise , Fitness

July 12, 2011

Prioritizing research for metastatic hereditary cancer

Posted in: Research , Cancer Treatment
Tags: Breast Cancer , Hereditary Cancer Research , BRCA1 , Metastatic Breast Cancer

May 08, 2011

Mother’s Day Perspectives from Our Members

Posted in: Inspirational , Voices
Tags: Family Story

April 16, 2011

Step-by-step: My kick-off talk for the Relay-for-Life

Posted in: Inspirational
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Ovarian Cancer , Genetic Testing , BRCA2 , Previvor , Survivor , Young Survivor

April 08, 2011

Voices: A Chance Meeting that Changed My Life

Posted in: Voices
Tags: BRCA1

December 20, 2009

I Will Previve: Raychel’s Story

Posted in: Voices
Tags: Previvor , Exercise , Fitness

December 15, 2009

BRCA2 and Fanconi Anemia

Posted in: Voices
Tags: BRCA2 , Fanconi Anemia

December 03, 2009

The community speaks out! Your thoughts on the USPSTF breast screening guideline changes.

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: Screening And Prevention , Cancer Screening