Avastin, a cancer drug that was a hopeful for breast cancer treatment when it got in its more advanced stages, is apparently showing promise for another type of female cancer. Ovarian cancer patients saw about four months added to the time it usually takes for ovarian cancer to progress into very serious territory. Basically, the drug [...]
I’ve heard so many women, including friends, coworkers and family members who have had a scare with breast cancer. It seems like the older you get, the more likely you are to have one, and more women I know who are past fifty have had a scare at one point or another. A “scare” can [...]
It is easy to think that mammograms save lives when so many women espouse their belief that the mammogram saved their life because it detected their breast cancer much earlier on than say a self breast exam would have. But I just read a very interesting perspective from another specialist who says that mammograms may [...]
While there are several types of foods you can eat to help sustain and enhance the health of your breasts and to help avoid the likelihood of breast cancer in every lifestyle way you can (there is always a genetic component unfortunately in this type of cancer), there are also several types of foods to [...]
The breast cancer drug often used as a last resort called “Avastin” has finally been formally recalled by the FDA. The FDA had previously approved the drug for breast cancer that was not responding to other more conventional treatments. It has now come to the conclusion that Avastin presents too many other health risks, and [...]
Huh? Wait what? That was how I looked at the headline that suggested that drinking alcohol, something that has long been linked to increasing the risk of developing breast cancer in women, may actually help to prevent the spread of the deadly disease. I though I was either reading it incorrectly or that it may [...]
The Mediterranean diet, as it has been termed, is really more of a common sense, all around healthful approach to eating than a diet to me. It only got its name because those that live in the Mediterranean have easier access to several of the foods on the diet, and a lot of the foods [...]
With the Fukushima disaster (which eerily has not been in the news for a long time for being such a disaster), many men and women were exposed to toxic levels of radioactive materials. These radioactive materials can seep into the water supply, the ground and the produce that springs forth from the ground, making it [...]
There have been two recent confirmations of something that has long bees suspected and used as a common sense prevention method against most types of cancer, including breast cancer. The first is to really limit your intake of alcohol. The research on alcohol intake has been fairly mixed. Some studies suggest that those with drink [...]
When it comes to most types of breast cancer, there is one fact that is pretty much undisputed. That fact is that excessive estrogens, especially those of a synthetic nature that did not originate in the female body itself, via its own natural processes, may actually accelerate breast cancer. However, it is unknown specifically what [...]
There are a couple of interesting stories in the news as of late about breast health that I’d like to share. The first headline really caught my eye, because it put two things that logically don’t go together in one sentence. Spider venom and breast cancer treatment – talk about a shocker. So of course I [...]
Well, the month of breast cancer and breast health awareness if officially over, and this time it appears that the month dedicated to one of America’s favorite subjects in both health and obsession, breasts, has garnered a lot of following. There have been numerous news stories about breast cancer awareness month of October 2011. From [...]
Having a mastectomy, or a double mastectomy, often feels extremely emotional for women. Our breasts are something that we grew with. They are a part of our bodies, a part of our treasured femininity and a symbol of our sexuality. Sure, breasts are flaunted, too talked about, obsessed over, and put on a pedestal in [...]
I’ve been reading some very interesting things on Susan G Komen and other breast cancer nonprofit organizations that likely started off as meaning well. They have, however, evolved into organizations that may be giving a lot of their money to pharmaceutical companies to come up with drugs that can be more toxic than the cancer [...]
This conversation came up the other day actually. We were talking about how our in-house employee clinic was offering breast cancer screenings. The kind where a travelling nurse goes around and does breast examinations, or teaches you how to do breast exams on yourself and detect breast cancer earlier. We also have a program that [...]
I received notification that Healthline, a popular health and medical website, has just released a 3D version of the female chest. It’s quite cool, I checked it out. It can show you the various areas of the female breast and the physiology and anatomy of this area on women. If you’re a girl, it’s pretty [...]
Critters for the Cure is a great organization that helps to fund financial support for women going through breast cancer treatment. It also helps to fund breast cancer research in an effort to help defeat and treat this disease which has become so pervasive in American culture for women. If you’d like to help support [...]
As with most other cancer and pre-cancer screenings, the breast cancer screening techniques have had their fair share of criticism and doubts over the years. The latest argument over whether women at a certain age should get mammograms has really muddied the waters more for women who are concerned about their breast health. It’s actually [...]
The mammogram debate never seems to stop raging. Today we hear that they aren’t as necessary as the medical profession would have us believe, and tomorrow we may hear that they are the worst thing you can do for your body, and actually cause breast cancer. The next we may hear that it’s all hooey [...]
I received the following interesting information on how a combination of herbal concoctions in Chinese medicine may help women who are being treated for breast cancer via chemotherapy, and wanted to share the press release with you. Chinese medicine benefits patients receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer Chinese medicine can help support women who are being [...]
It seems that finally, there is beginning to be a real shift toward wellness and prevention in the medical industry, as opposed to just putting a medication into people to fix what could have been probably totally avoided had they followed a certain diet and exercised as well. I’m hearing a series of PSA ads [...]
There are more and more findings in breast cancer research, and many of them point to the fact that some women have such high predispositions to get the disease that they might as well do something to significantly lower their risk early on in life. There was actually even an episode about a woman who [...]
According to some recent statistics, less and less women are opting to get mammograms. It is being blamed on the recommendation that came out about one year ago, where it was recommended that women in their forties may not need to get yearly mammograms yet, and that women fifty and over may not need to [...]
Doctors have long relied on their own hands to detect breast lumps or any other signs that could possibly mean breast cancer. The problem of course, is that doctors are humans, and to err is human. There are the occasional errors and missed breast cancer signs, but this can also be true of breast cancer [...]
Soy has been bandied about as both a breast cancer fighter, and a good thing for women to eat to help ward off breast cancer for it’s natural phyto (plant based) nutrients, and as the bad guy, something that should be avoided by women, especially women who already have or have had breast cancer. Soy, [...]
Boy am I happy that a lot of the foods I naturally hold dear and find delicious are actually foods that offer superior nutritional benefits as a defense against breast cancer. One of the foods that I really have grown to love which helps prevent breast cancer, and other forms of cancer as well, is [...]
I can tell you, my personal preference is to not wear underwire bras, although when I first started wearing bras and wanted to make my rather small breasts stand up and out a little more, I favored these types of bras because they seemed to give my breasts more shape and lift. But there have [...]
Suzanne Somers sure has come a long way since her days playing the airheaded but lovable part of the room mate triangle of Three’s Company. She became an instant sex symbol, and her blond good looks along with her long tan legs earned her a top spot in the poster girl for sexiness contest. Who [...]
Millions of women across the world use the birth control pill as their method of choice for preventing unwanted pregnancy. Whether a woman is in a relationship or not, she may never want to have children, or she may want to be the one to decide when the time is right to have or not [...]
There has been a body of research that has been released lately that definitely may cause some eyebrows to raise. Why? Well, because it’s very honest and blunt, and in my opinion, is probably also very valid. However, it seems to some that it may point the finger at the person who gets cancer as [...]
When it comes to surviving breast cancer, which becomes deadly after it reaches a certain stage, and is much more treatable when it is caught early on, it seems that one’s mental state may be key to surviving this disease. It may be the difference between permanent remission and recurrence, and life and death, so [...]
When it comes to bras, I’ll be totally honest, I’m a hippie at heart. I hate to wear a bra. If it were not such a social taboo to go around without one all of the time, I’d be totally doing it. I can’t stand anything about bras. I rip them off when I come [...]
A bone building drug that was thought to perhaps prevent breast cancer recurrence in breast cancer patients, and to potentially even help those that never had breast cancer to not get it, has recently been tested clinically in trials to see if it really offers benefit. The benefits tested were for two groups apparently, for [...]
SO Many women are still confused about what is right for them when it comes to deciding when they should start getting mammograms. Even women in their thirties sometimes are being encouraged to start getting yearly mammographies by their doctors because they have indicated they have a family history of the disease. But there are [...]
Sometimes when you read so many conflicting studies, it can be really difficult to know what to believe. In the end, you have to listen to your own intuition and experience. How does eating a certain food or drinking a certain drink, or taking a certain supplement make you feel? Do you get sick often [...]
While everyone knows that eating a lot of dark, leafy greens in the diet is essential to good health, we also have heard a lot of whispers – well, lately – more like shouts – about the health benefits of pure, organic olive oil. Why is olive oil so healthy for you when it is [...]
One well-established fact in the world of cancer prevention overall is increased exercise leads to lower rates of most types of cancer. This is due to a number of factors. Exercise is not only excellent and necessary for everyone’s health, it is also a powerful anti cancer agent because of these many health benefits. Not [...]
I recently got an email, not sure if it was just an advertisement or if they were writing me so I would write about their product called Belle Vie, since all it had was the name of the product in the header and a picture of the product in the body of the email. At [...]
Christina Applegate famously was diagnosed at a very early stage of breast cancer. And God bless her, ever since then, she has become a warrior crusader for women to get screened and take care of themselves to help prevent breast cancer ever since then. Recently, she says that she firmly believes that having the MRI [...]
I read an article recently that, while intriguing, seemed incomplete to me. It referenced how two groups of women were studied and it was found that when tested, the women’s DNA who had reported taking multivitamin supplements and calcium supplements demonstrated a much better capability to repair it’s damage. This translates into not only a [...]
It’s startling when you hear the figures of how many women reported having problems having sex, or expressed having definite dips in their pleasure and joy of having sex, after they were treated for invasive breast cancer. The number is around 70%, according to one study that looked at women who had invasive breast cancer [...]