Understanding Breast Cancer and Managing Fears

Here's a useful and clear website that will help you understand a bit about what's going on if you are newly diagnosed as having breast cancer.

http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc?gclid=CNjswvPo8sECFafHtAodqTEA4g

This paragraph under 'Fears about Breast Cancer' particularly spoke to me.  I sometimes feel like a right wuss with all the fears and stress going around in my head but this made me feel a bit less of a wuss:-

"The fear of breast cancer is unlike any other — psychologists and other experts agree on that. The fear can take many different forms, depending upon where you are in the breast cancer experience. Understand that many of your fears are shared by others. While fears are normal, they are uncomfortable to live with."

It really is a very useful resource for those who are family, friends, newly diagnosed (esp '10 ways to manage fear after diagnosis' - wish I'd read that last summer) or coping with the aftermath.