MRI’s for Breast Cancer?
It sounds like a pricey alernative, and in fact it is one that insurance companies may balk at because they’ll most likely bear the brunt of the costs, but MRI’s or magnetic resonance imaging, which is not a cheap medical process, are being recommended by the cancer society docs for women who are at high risk for breast cancer or breast cancer recurrence.
The reason for the extra precaution is that traditional mammograms may miss breast cancer formation in these patients, and with the MRI, a much more precise verification can be performed since it scopes out a deeper tissue and is much more accurate than a mammogram in some instances to detect cancer and cancer recurrence much earlier in order to save lives and prevent the cancer from spreading.
I’ve known a few people who’ve had MRI’s for various health problems, and from what I understand, they are a lengthy process sometimes, depending on the level of the scan, but some people may be at the doctor’s office for hours getting the MRI done, while I believe others may be a short time period. From what I understand the hardest part is to sit still for a period of time, but it is a painless procedure!
Hips and Breasts Question
I received a question about whether herbs used for natural breast enlargement pills may also help her to expand her hips, as she (unlike me who has the opposite problem), tends to have very narrow hips and wants them to grow along with her breasts. Take a look at the question and answer. Name withheld for privacy.
Question :
Hi,
I am 19 years old, and was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease at 15.
Because of the disease, I was the shortest person in my class till
about junior or senior year in high school, and I still have never
developed. I recently found out about taking individual herbs for NBE,
and for the past month have been taking Fenugreek, Stinging Nettle
Root, Wild Yam, Hops, Borage Oil, and Cayenne pepper (for circulation
and higher body temperature). I have done a lot of research on this,
but have not found anything about NBE herbs having an effect of hips. I
have no hips at all, in fact they seem to indent a little where they
should be curving out. I have just started seeing results in breast
growth within the past week, and have realized that if I grow even a
cup size (I am not even an A right now) I will be completely out of
proportion. Just wondering if there has been no change in my body in
hips since about 15, do you think that the herbs in my body acting as
hormones will have any effect on my hips becoming more curvy? Thank you.
XXXXX
Answer :
Weight Loss Equals Reduction in Breast Cancer Risk
A few weeks ago we brought a piece about how obesity has been linked to breast cancer, so the logical thought process would be if you are thinner and maintain a healthy weight throughout time, you may actually significantly decrease your risk of developing breast cancer.
One may have assumed that once a woman gets past menopause and is overweight though, any subsequent weight loss may not help her chances of avoiding the cancer.
However, new research suggests this is not true, and that losing weight, even if it’s weight loss after menopause, can significantly reduce your chances of developing breast cancer.
Most researchers and scholars believe the reason for the increased breast cancer risk with obesity and overweight women is because an overweight woman has excess body fat. Fat is a major facilitator of excess estrogen in the body, since estrogen is essentially stored in body fat in women.
This is just a hypothesis though, but most doctors do believe that excess estrogen storage is a breast cancer risk in itself, although the single hormone itself cannot be 100% conclusively linked to the contraction of the breast cancer.
Basically, any doctor will tell you weight loss is of a benefit anyways, and maintaining a trim figure with less fat benefits your health in so many more ways than just for breast cancer prevention, so this should be followed as a general rule of thumb to begin with.
Breast Sag Question
Another question from a reader. Look…
Question :
developing my breasts when i was 12 and then have grown saggy and were
always saggy and were never perky is there any gurentee that bust fuel will
work for me to lift my breasts and make them look normal ? as i ve tried
everything there is to try apart from surgery if you could please get back
to me on this asap thank you xxxx!
New Advanced Breast Cancer Drug Tykerb FDA Approved
This may be an exciting new development in the world of advanced breast cancer treatement in the medical world, but the actual total benefits are not 100% known at this time, although the new advanced breast cancer component drug called Tykerb is promising in some instances.
The drug was just FDA approved to work in conjunction with the chemotherapy drug Xeloda on women with advanced stages of breast cancer who have not responded to other convention breast cancer therapies. If nothing else, Tykerb offers another dimension to the research of breast cancer and breast cancer treatment.
The new drug, which I think has an interesting name because it almost sounds like “herb”, is a drug conceived of by scientists over at the huge drug company GlaxoSmithKline PLC. It will not come cheap, as most chemotherapy and anti-cancer drugs, at a price of close to $3,000 per month for treatment, but if it works wonders on patients with advanced breast cancer, it very well may be worth its weight in gold.
The results of studies conducted last year showed that the Tykerb drug, when combined with the chemo drug Xeloda, helped to delay the growth of tumors by 8 to 8 1/2 months on patients. Pretty impressive, I’d say.
Tykerb is not without its opponents though, as there is no proof that the drug actually helps to extend the life or the quality of life in patients with the advanced form of the cancer, and this should be the basis of an FDA approval for such a serious drug, according to some.
It’s hard to say, but with promising results, I would also hate to see a drug delayed to market simply for the “what if” factor, if it’s a genuinely beneficial drug.
Breast Sag After Weight Loss
A lot of women are not only looking for natural ways to enhance the size of their breasts, but they are also looking for natural ways to lift and firm sagging breasts that are left sagging after an extreme weight loss. Weight loss, especially the kind that occurs after having a child, or having an extreme surgery like gastric bypass, often leaves a woman’s breasts looking “delated” and saggy, and many women end up getting breast lifts because of this sagging after weight loss.
I was just looking at a not so kind photo of Star Jones on a gossip blog, and it showed (not so nicely of course), how her breasts were drastically sagging and deflated looking after she lost all that weight recently (presumably from gastric bypass surgery, but she still denies it or will not comment on how she lost so much weight in a short period of time).
Women can get what’s called a breast lift, where the breast tissue is basiclaly surgically tightened through a procedure that is similar to breast implants, and usually a smaller implant is put in underneath the breast tissue so that it helps to lift it all back up to where it was before the weight loss due to child birth, surgery or good old fashioned determination, took place.
Women also seek natural products for breast enhancement for this type of problem, such as natural breast enlargement creams and breast enhancement pills, in hopes that their breasts will again be “filled out” and lifted to their naturally firmer, lifted state.
Pink Ribbons for Breast Health
I’m seeing an increasing amount of the pink ribbons on cars and other places where they may be prominently displayed, which are a sign of support to breast cancer research, funding and furthering of finding good treatments and maybe even a cure for this potentially deadly female (mostly) disease.
This is definitely a good thing, since the pink ribbon can raise awareness and is seen as a thought provoking sign of substantial support for the coming together of the minds, so to speak, so that we can all contribute to the finding of a cure and better treatments which are not so debilitating as chemotherapy and radiation therapy so breast cacner patients can enjoy a better quality of life and better prognosis after they are treated for the cancer.
If you’d like to voice your support in the form of a visual, which is the best form of “marketing” for a thought or idea that one wants to spread, you can get it in a variety of places online. There is the Pink Ribbon Shop, which sells a variety of the pink ribbons, including ones that are magnetized and may be put on your car.
There is also the Susan G Komen foundation, which is a foundation that was built by the love of a sister for her sister who passed away from the disease, and has become perhaps the largest breast cancer awareness organization in the US today.
You can also make tax deductible charitable contributions to many of these organizations that are dedicated to finding the closest thing to a cure they can by raising money and awareness, and attracting the best talent that can be had for finding a cure and a better way of life for the patients who are treated.
Zoft Breast Enhancement Gum and Other Reader Questions
I figured I’d share some reader questions with you, in case anybody else had the same questions. They are about natural breast enhancement - one is about a new breast enhancement gum.
Question :
Hello,
I’m seriously considering trying the new Zoft breast enhancement gum. I have even tried looking the company up on the butter business bureau and can’t seem to get concrete information. Have you heard of any negative feedback from this product?
XXXX
Answer :
Sienna Miller Latest Star Caught on Camera Topless Sunbathing
Sienna Miller, perhaps best known for dating Jude Law and dating other Hollywood eligible bachelors after and between Jude, or at least being “romantically linked” to them, has been the latest female celebrity caught sunbathing topless on a public beach.
Ah, who knows, it’s probably a private beach some paparazzi snuck into to catch a picture of her boobs uncovered. The blonde was photographed, oblivious to the lens apparently, with her new beau, with her clearly natural breasts out for all to see.
Sunbathing topless is pretty cool actually, and people do seem to be pretty uptight about it here in the US, where the breast is a taboo still, although it’s just a part of the anatomy of a woman. Don’t get me wrong, you’d never see me flashing my ta-ta’s out in public, but I say to whomever feels the need to do that, go ahead sister!
The star before her that was caught on camera sunbathing in all her topless glory was Mena Suvari, who’s most famous for her role in the American Pie movie. She was photographed topless on a beach too, seemingly unknowing about any cameras in the near vicinity. I’m sure the paparazzi get big bucks for toples photos of star these days, what with the fascination of celebrity here in the US that shows no signs of slowing down.
Then, before her, we had Jennifer Anniston and Janet Jackson being photographed topless while sunbathing, both of whom I believed sued or threatened to sue to get the pictures out of circulation as soon as they possibly could. Can’t blame them. Who wants to give millions of men a free peep show?
The Downside of Huge Boobs : Back Pain
The “norm” in American society is for men to like women with large breasts, right? Well, it’s probably a mixed bag, but that’s certainly the impression most women have, which shows in the fact that thousands of women a year get breast implants to make their breasts bigger in hopes of attracting more male and female attention and envy. But do women ever really consider what it’s like to be on the flip side of small breast sizes, where the breasts are so big that they almost get in the way, and actually can go so far as to cause pain and back problems?
There are a few celebrities we know of that have had breast reductions, and have loved the results. Lots of women who have smaller breasts and always wanted to have bigger ones, feel envious of women with larger breasts because they think they get a lot of male attention, they can fill out their clothes better and they just look more feminine, but women with those naturally large breasts tend to find that they are on the side of wanting smaller ones so they don’t need to literally carry around the burden of large boobs.
Large breasts, in the D cup arena, are notorious for causing back pain, and are often the primary reason cited in breast reduction operations by the women that seek them. Heck, even some women who have gotten breast implants the size of say a Pamela Anderson double D cup, have asked for reductions because they couldn’t work out the same, couldn’t walk around for long periods of time without excrutiating back pain, and almost feel as if their large breasts are a curse rather than a “sexy” blessing.
Not only that, women with extremely large breasts often feel they are not taken as seriously by colleagues, and they may be right. They feel as if their breasts are something they’d like to hide as tastefully as possible so that people will look them in the eyes rather than at their chest when they are speaking, and they will get the professional and personal respect they deserve. This tends to happen a lot with women in the professional arena who work in an office environment and would like to have the most respect they can from male and female coworkers.