CANCER

Talking Women’s Health: With Dr. Sherry Ross, M.D.

 Talking Women’s Health: With Dr. Sherry Ross, M.D.

It’s here! It’s here! Today’s the day I get to share with you what I’m working on for 2018. It’s a collaboration between The Enthusiasm Enthusiast and award-wining women’s health revolutionary, Dr. Sherry Ross, M.D.

Surviving Grief: With Kate Spencer

Surviving Grief: With Kate Spencer

Kate Spencer knows everyone cool, and everyone cool knows Kate Spencer. This is what I’ve come to realize after getting to know this woman. The writer and Upright Citizens Brigade alum is the kind of person who is both wildly clever and fiercely self-deprecating. The two of us recently teamed up on a bus full of women activists helmed by Jane Fonda (YES, THE JANE FONDA) to electrify voters who normally sit out of mid-term elections. Kate held the map and kept the ledger. I knocked on the doors and did most of the chatting. We stayed in our respective lanes and were a good team!

Treating Thyroid Cancer: With Dr. Naifa Busaidy

Treating Thyroid Cancer: With Dr. Naifa Busaidy

The cancer with the highest and fastest rise since 1970 is thyroid cancer. It is disproportionately affecting women. According to the American Cancer Society, about 56,870 new cases of thyroid cancer (42,470 in women, and 14,400 in men) are diagnosed each year. In 2010, I was one of those patients.