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Black, Hispanic, Poor people wait longer for breast cancer treatment, experience more recurrences

By lauredhel on 9 March, 2010

In the USA, Black women have the highest mortality from breast cancer of any other group, despite the rate of diagnosis of breast cancer being highest in White women. Hispanic women have a lower breast cancer diagnosis incidence than either, but mortality rates are disproportionately high in Hispanic women also. Here are the CDC incidence [...]

Posted in accessibility, intersectionality, medical practice, poverty, race | Tagged black, bmj, breast cancer, cancer, cancer treatment, chemotherapy, delay, delays in treatment, hispanic, incidence, local recurrence, mortality, race, racism, radiotherapy, recurrence, recurrent, research, surgery, treatment, USA, white | Leave a response

A Saturday sketch

By amandaw on 21 February, 2010

(Cross-posted at three rivers fog.)
I noticed something was wrong in the earliest hours of the morning, when my husband had disappeared from bed but I did not hear anything going on in the bathroom and could not see him anywhere.
Around 8, he got up to go to the bathroom and I lifted myself out of [...]

Posted in relationships, small stories | Tagged chronic illness, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, home, interlude, pain, pain management, personal, relationships, stories, treatment, welcome to my life | 3 Responses

Why I don’t think it’s funny to use Limbaugh’s drug abuse as a punchline.

By amandaw on 7 January, 2010

Short background: Rush Limbaugh (link goes to Wikipedia article) is a US conservative radio talk show host who has risen to prominence in the US by inciting “controversy” after “controversy” with hateful rhetoric. He also went through an ordeal some time back for addiction to prescription painkillers, an incident that the US left likes to [...]

Posted in blaming, i'm right here, politics, shaming | Tagged ableism, abuse, addiction vs dependence, chronic pain, color me unsurprised, control, culture, disability, drugs, health policing, i thought you were supposed to be my ally, medications, myths and misconceptions, pain, pain management, politics, privilege, problematic attitudes, the left, the right, things people say, this all sounds awfully familiar, treatment, vicodin | 7 Responses

Guest Post: Sex and Scoliosis

By Guest on 13 November, 2009

Many girls experience horror and anger when they find out what bracing is going to mean for their lives, and that it won’t even fix them, it will just probably keep them from getting any worse.

Posted in bodies, guest post, identity, intersectionality, life changes, social attitudes | Tagged intersectionality, scoliosis, sex, sexuality, social treatment, treatment | 20 Responses

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