Information about Breast Cancer for Women diagnosed with the disease and their husbands, spouses, relatives and friends.
Illustation of Breast Cancer (source: www.medical-look.com/
Diagnosis of Breast Cancer and other 'Normalities'
This website was created with the intention of helping others and provide support to Husbands, Spouses, Relatives and Friends of women who received a diagnosis of breast cancer. You will find basic information about breast cancer, treatments of breast cancer, breast cancer symptoms, our Breast Cancer Story, how the disease changed our lives and how we managed learning living with breast cancer. I'd like to share some of the experience I've gained, because I believe that some of you might benefit from it and I also know too well how it felt when our life was turned upside down earlier this year. I'm talking about my wife's diagnosis of breast cancer and how we coped with the situation. There is plenty of information out there on the web for women who have to deal with breast cancer. However, only very little is available for their closest relatives, especially their husbands. And I am one of them. Under the Information about Breast Cancer section of this page - which I am in the process of updating over the next few weeks and months - I'll be hopefully able to share some valuable information with you. And by saying that, let me put something straight for the record: I'm not a doctor, nor an expert or specialist. First and foremost, I'm a husband. And all I'd like to do is to give you the opportunity to hopefully benefit from my experience as a 'Breast Cancer Husband'.
It will take me some time to put all the information up online and but I am committed to continuously add to and update the content of this website. The area of alternative treatments of breast cancer caught a lot of public attention in the past few years, especially since the conventional cancer treatments did not live up to their expectations and people start to look and think outside the box of traditional medicine. I will try my best in attempting to shed some light on either path and the information about breast cancer I will provide you with will be in unscientific and plain English. It is important to know as you browse through my pages, that we are sympathetic to complementary treatments of breast cancer, for reasons I will explain in further detail within the several sections of this website. However, I’m an avid believer and advocate of objectivity and pragmatism and therefore, to me in order effectively prevent, treat and cure breast cancer; it is instrumental and absolutely necessary to thoroughly explore either way, the Traditional-Conventional Approach, as well as the Alternative-Complimentary one. Traditional medicine, after all, has come a long way and even though there is still much more to do, highly effective cancer treatments have been made available in the recent years. As you will see, my wife Ann and I chose to what we believe was the best for our particular situation, which included procedures and protocols from both sides. All the details are summarized in ‘Our Breast Cancer Story’.
Current and recent developments of how we are living breast bancer and our journey will be regularly updated and posted in my: 'A husband's Breast Cancer Blog'.
About seven months after my wife got received her diagnosis of breast cancer, on October 1st of 2009, after a CAT-Scan revealed a 6.2 cm tumor in my left kidney, I was diagnosed with Kidney Cancer. This, of course, will significantly impact my role as a supporter of my wife. But I want to keep matters as separate as possible and therefore I recently created another website where I will talk about my own challenge with the disease:
I am more than happy to answer any kind of questions you may have, to the best of my knowledge. I promise to get back to you in a timely fashion - I know the anxiety and desperation when it starts to sink in and you have no other choice but accepting that your loved one was diagnosed. Please don't hesitate to contact me at any time with questions, comments, critique:
Thank you for stopping by. I wish you all the strength and the faith you need to get through your own breast bancer journey.
Tony Ulrich
