How the COVID-19 Vaccine Could Affect Your Mammogram
Greetings from the Breast Imaging section at ARA. We are having a busy year, with lots of Austin-area women catching up on mammograms missed due...
What’s Best for Your Breasts? Essential Questions before Surgery.
When you find out that you have breast cancer, deciding the right breast surgery for you can feel daunting. You’re in the middle of a massive...
Temporary Pet Care Now Available for BCRC Clients
There’s nothing more comforting than the happy face of a beloved pet. Understandably, it’s often the first thing someone recovering from breast cancer surgery might...
Is 1-Week of Whole Breast Radiation Therapy Effective for Breast Cancer?
The COVID-19 pandemic created many challenges among healthcare providers, not just regarding care for patients who were infected with the novel coronavirus, but also in...
Benefits of Spirituality for Your Health
Spirituality is the way you find meaning, hope, comfort and inner peace-I call it finding your ‘Zen’. Some people find spirituality through prayer or ‘religion’...
Two NEW Opportunities for Central Texas for Affordable Health Coverage
2020 was a year fraught with many challenges when it came to health, a year when the importance of the protections and the provisions of...
Dealing With Loved Ones When You Have Cancer: 5 Common Challenges and 5 Ways to Cope
When life throws difficult circumstances our way, most of us hope that the people we’re closest to will be a soft place to land. Whether...
Converting from Implants to Living Tissue Breast Reconstruction: Am I a Candidate?
A diagnosis of breast cancer changes life in an instant—it’s the beginning of medical tests, a host of doctor’s appointments, and treatments to eliminate the...
How Can Integrative Oncology Help Those With Cancer?
What is Integrative Oncology? Integrative medicine in the field of oncology uses a multi-disciplinary, evidence-based approach to cancer care. Integrative oncology often includes a collaborative...
10 Ways to Reset Your New Year’s Resolution
Krystle Zuniga, PhD, RD, LD Livestrong Cancer Institutes Dr. Krystle Zuniga is a registered and licensed dietitian at the Livestrong Cancer Institutes and an assistant...
Exercising and Breast Cancer- Start Low and Go Slow
Well, it’s a new year and I keep hearing that dirty word come up in conversation…EXERCISE. Every year many of us start off with the...
How Narrative Medicine Can Help You
In November the Breast Cancer Resource Center held a virtual event featuring Michael Vitez, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, on narrative medicine. The event was generously...
Shruti’s Story- Tend To Your Health Because You Are Important
My name is Shruti. I’m an Indian American woman living in Austin, and at 38 I was diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer. I was...
Simone’s Story– New Year, New Challenges
On New Year’s Eve 2019, what should have been a day of exciting new beginnings, I was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. When I woke...
Coverage & Care During the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency
It amazes me every day that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed merely 10 years ago, and that Marketplace plans, Marketplace...
Kimberly’s Story – Advocate for Yourself & Listen to Your Body
In January of 2019, my routine mammogram came back normal. But just a few months later, I noticed tenderness moving from side to side -...
Is Natural Breast Reconstruction Right For You?
When I was training, I very vividly remember being taught by an older plastic surgeon that the goal for breast reconstruction was for a woman...
Coming to ARA During COVID-19: Safety Protocols for Patients
As a cancer patient or caregiver, you may have questions and concerns about how to best protect yourself from COVID-19 when you have to make...
Coping with Changes in the Cancer Center During the Pandemic
Many things are different now that we are in a pandemic. When facing cancer during these times you may have questions about what changes your...
How Do I Tell My Kids About My Cancer Diagnosis? Wonders & Worries Can Help!
Receiving a cancer diagnosis feels scary and overwhelming for most people. This shocking news elicits uncertainty, worry, and many questions: Why me? Will I be...
Working on Food Access during a Pandemic
Molly Costigan Sustainable Food Center Molly Costigan is the Program Director for Sustainable Food Center’s The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre®. In that capacity, she manages...
Reflections from BCRC’s Metastatic Retreat
BCRC was able to host two metastatic retreats last fall thanks to generous sponsors Dr. Debra Patt, Dr. Elizabeth Potter and Dr. Heather King. Many...
The Healing Power of Mindfulness
Right now as your eyes are scanning over the words in this sentence you can actually perform the function of reading with astounding proficiency and...
BCRC Executive Director – Look What We’ve Accomplished!
As we near the end of the decade and our 24th year, we first reflect on all that we've accomplished and those who made it...
Lauren and Evan’s Story – In the Blink of an Eye
As we look forward to our 25th year and beyond, it is with the greatest respect that we share these intimate glimpses into the lives...
Claire’s Story – Before, After, and After
As we look forward to our 25th year and beyond, it is with the greatest respect that we share these intimate glimpses into the lives...
Jennifer and Amber – A Sister’s Story
As we look forward to our 25th year, we reflect on all the women who touch our souls and will live in our hearts forever....
Kim’s Story – Living
It is with the greatest respect that we share with you these intimate stories of our clients’ experience with breast cancer. What is clear is...
Benefits of Yoga During & After Cancer Treatment
By Shannon Prescher RYT-200, TIYT Yoga is an ancient practice that was born from northern India over 5,000 years ago. The practice has been supportively...
Preparing for Breast Reconstruction Surgery
By Dr. Christine Fisher Dr. Christine Fisher is a board-certified plastic surgeon passionate about taking care of breast cancer patients and safely creating long-lasting and...
Pelvic Health & Breast Cancer Treatment
Dr. Angela Wicker-Ramos PT, DPT, CLT-LANA Oncology Physical Therapist and Certified Lymphedema Therapist Breast cancer treatment for many people may include an oral medication that...
Is Flat the New Black?
In a #MeToo era more survivors feel emboldened to go breast-free This week marks my 10th anniversary of going flat, and I’m happy to say...
How Chinese Medicine Can Help Complement Cancer Recovery
It is no secret that the most common breast cancer treatments (chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation) are hard on the body. At least for now, we...
The Healing Power of Gratitude
GRATITUDE is the springboard back to joy and is a powerful tool for anyone on a healing journey. When it comes to cancer or chronic...
Take It to Nature
We can turn to nature for solace at any time—to be held, energized, and reminded that, even when we’re in the throes of cancer, the...
Highlights from 2018 SABCS
SABCS (San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium) is designed to provide state-of-the-art information on the experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant...
Grief is the process of learning a new way to love after loss
What is grief? Grief is the process of learning a new way to love after loss. Cancer may lead to the loss of a breast,...
Capturing Moments One Snap at a Time
Felicia Reed is to the far left I have been impacted by breast cancer my entire life. I was 18 when my mom died at...
Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer 365 Days of the Year
October 13th is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. For those living with Metastatic Breast Cancer, they are are fully aware of it 365 days of...
Letter from Executive Director, Ray Anne Evans
Dear Friends, When I was hired to work at Breast Cancer Resource Center in 2004 an interesting thing happened; I began to meet the most...
Please Welcome our Newest Patient Navigator- Mary Ellen Rogers
What is your title and when did you start working at the BCRC? I’m a Patient Navigator, primarily working with those diagnosed with Breast Cancer...
Mindfulness & Meditation Through Cancer & Beyond
It seems that mindfulness and meditation are having a moment – trending as their own poplar hashtags. But the truth is, modern day neuroscience is...
Trauma and Recovery in the Cancer Experience
“Talking helps, so don’t give up!” Lorraine, aged 52, finished active treatment for breast cancer 18 months ago and is taking tamoxifen. After her last...
A Farewell: Dianna Petrick Retires After 12 Years of Touching Many Lives
Dianna Petrick, OPN-CG • CHW Senior Certified Patient Navigator As I get ready to retire from the BCRC as a Patient Navigator, I think that...