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Study Documents the Stress of Waiting for Biopsy Results

Waiting for results of a breast biopsy appears to affect stress hormone levels just as much as finding out you have cancer, a new study shows. Harvard researchers tracked 126 women  who were undergoing breast biopsy, monitoring their levels of the stress hormone cortisol  while they waited.  For the full story go to http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/health/25stress.html?ref=research#
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Research Advocacy Network Mentor Program featured in IUCC Newsletter

The latest edition of IUSCC Pink was just published and features an article about the Research Advocate Mentor Program held at the Indiana University campus.  The pdf of the newsletter can be viewed by clicking on Fall/Winter 2008/2009.

Report from Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium

By Kathleen Livingston, Research Advocate
The 10th Annual Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium was held October 24-26, 2008 in Chicago, IL.  The conference was sponsored by Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine.  I was sponsored to go to this symposium by the Research Advocacy Network.
This symposium was named after a young breast cancer patient who lost […]