Archive for October, 2007

More Woman Choosing Double Mastectomies

October 31, 2007

More and more women, and many of them considerably younger women for having breast cancer, are opting to get both of their breasts totally removed after they are diagnosed with breast cancer in hopes of totally eliminating any recurrence of the disease in their other, disease free breast.  Many times, physicians say they feel the [...]

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Interesting Stats on Breast Augmentations

October 27, 2007

I received the following information from a gentleman who had some interesting statistics on the acceptability of breast augmentation surgery today, and how it is still the most commonly performed elective surgery here in the US.  I thought you might be able to use this: a new survey done by the National Women’s Health Resource [...]

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Disappointing Taxol News

October 24, 2007

Taxol, one of the most popular chemotherapy drugs used for breast cancer in women, has been found not to be effective as a cancer fighter and treatment in the most common forms of breast cancer, or at least not nearly as effective as it was once thought against breast cancer.  The numbers of women who [...]

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Herbal Breast Enhancement Do It Yourself?

October 21, 2007

This question came from a person who wondered if they could just purchase a bunch of the herbs traditionally used in herbal breast enhancement products as a sort of “do it yourself” herbal breast enhancement deal.  Question : I was wanting to increase cup size and then also wondered that all these products the ingredients [...]

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Harvard Women Wins Breast Feeding Fight

October 18, 2007

A Harvard student of medicine has won a court battle for additional “break period” time to be able to pump breast milk for her breast feeding infant during a lengthy medical exam she had to take.  I’m curious as to why this even had to be a battle in court.. it seems like it would be [...]

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Bountiful Breast vs. Phytoestrogen

October 15, 2007

I received this question from a reader, so here goes.  It’s all anonymous as usual, just posting for anyone else who might have the same questions. Question : Could you please tell me the difference between phytoestrogen pills and non phytoestrogen pills ie bountiful would either have different side effects which type would work better [...]

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When Herbal Breast Enhancement Doesn’t Work..

October 12, 2007

I received this question from someone who tried what (I believe) were both herbal breast enhancement products and did not have great success with them, and wanted another natural breast enhancement alternative.  Name is withheld, but I wanted to post this in case anyone else has similar questions.  I know we’ve had similar ones before, [...]

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Breast Cancer Deaths Declining

October 8, 2007

Good news on the breast cancer front, or at least partially.  Apparently deaths from breast cancer are on the decline, but one group of women who is not experiencing this positive downswing in deaths from the female-dominated disease are african american women.  The death rates are falling at roughly a rate of two percent per [...]

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When Skinny Girls Get Pregnancy Boobs

October 5, 2007

This is just a silly, silly post about something my crazy mind was thinking about today after I saw pictures of the very, very thin Nicole Richie in a two piece bathing suit on the beach, with a protruding belly from her fairly far along pregnancy, and noticed that, oh my God, she’s gotten her [...]

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Male Breast Enhancement : Herbal or No?

October 2, 2007

I got a question from a male trying to increase his breast size and figured I’d post it anonymously with the basic info intact so if other men have similar questions and are on an herbally based natural male breast enhancement product and it’s not working, they can try this other option.  Question : I [...]

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