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Welcome to JanHasak.com!

The mission of this website is to help the general public learn more about breast cancer survivorship and living with lymphedema, and to raise awareness among health professionals, breast cancer survivors, and their caregivers of lymphedema risk reduction practices and treatment. The site is hosted by Jan Hasak, author of a memoir on breast cancer, Mourning Has Broken: Reflections on Surviving Cancer. Various resources and lymphedema information are available at this site. Jan Hasak has also set up a blog on which comments are always welcome.

 

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The materials on this website are for informational purposes only, do not constitute medical or legal advice, do not necessarily reflect the opinions of any physicians, and are not guaranteed to be correct, complete, or up-to-date. The website is not intended to create a doctor-patient relationship between you and the host of this website, Jan Hasak, and you should not act or rely on any information on this site without seeking first the advice of your own physician or healthcare provider. Information provided on this site is meant to complement and not replace any advice or information from a health professional. Lymphedema in particular requires accurate diagnosis, treatment, and self-training by a certified lymphedema therapist.

The resources and information pages on this site and the articles and links to other resources on the Internet are provided as citations and aids to help you identify and locate information and other Internet resources that may be of interest to you regarding breast cancer or lymphedema, and are not intended to state or imply that the website host Jan Hasak is affiliated or associated with, agrees with, or is legally authorized to use any trade names, registered trademarks, logo, legal or official seal or copyrighted symbol that may be reflected in the links.

This website does not endorse any specific products other than the authors' books or books containing written material by the author, but merely offers pubilcly available information regarding them.

Last Updated ( Monday, 01 March 2010 )
 

What's New?

 Jan 's humorous story in Italy appears in the January 2010 newsletter of the Cancer Club. To get a peak, visit:

 

http://cancerclub.com/news_and_press/the_cancer_club_january_2010_enewsletter_2_15_2010.aspx

  

Jan also recently wrote a guest blog post about support groups, viewable at: http://www.lymphomainfo.net/blog/coping-and-support-blogs/why-you-do-need-a-support-group-even-if-you-think-you-dont 

 
 
A recently published book on lymphedema for which Jan provided patient commentary: 
 
100 Questions
 
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Jan's cancer story and two of her poems can be found in a new book called Bands of Hope. (Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for info on how to purchase.) 

Look soon for Jan's upcoming publication of an inspirational, Christian-themed allegory about her two bouts of breast cancer, interlaced with poems. Entitled The Pebble Path: Returning Home from a Forest of Shadows, the book relates the story of Fanciful, a princess, who meets and marries Farcical and picks up pebbles of wisdom as she travels down the path following her cancer diagnosis. Almost anyone whose life has been touched by cancer or who works in a cancer-related medical profession will see their situations reflected in this book.

Click here to see a representative poem from this book!

 
Last Updated ( Sunday, 07 March 2010 )
 

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Mourning Has Broken:
Reflections on Surviving Cancer
 
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