Apparently undertreatment isn’t so much a problem in breast cancer patients as over treatment of the cancer and it’s effects. The interesting part of the new study that identified this statistic is that it said that one in three women identified with breast cancer did not need any treatment at all, perhaps not beyond a [...]
Well, this is definitely not the way I want things to go in our healthcare system, but if it’s very nominal and will help the scores of people out there get health care that can’t afford it I supposed I could pay it although I admit I’d do so with mixed feelings. Right now, breast [...]
In a victory for women who are brave enough to share their breast cancer stories, especially to share their soul bearing pictures of the before and afters of a mastectomy, a woman named Sharon Adams has been victorious in a Facebook overturn which ruled her pictures to be too sexual in nature and abusive of [...]
When I read or see stories about kids who have cancer one thing always rings in my head. How is this fair? Are kids really equipped with the faculties to deal with such a blow to the body, and to the mind not to mention? But then it inevitably is almost always true that children [...]
Well, I guess that even young women are not immune to breast cancer, and unfortunately, although breast cancer is much more rare in women under the age of the forty to fifty year range, it can be much more deadly when it occurs in a younger woman because these types are typically much more agressive [...]
A drug that was thought to be potentially promising in the treatment of breast cancer because of it’s relative effectiveness in the treatment of other types of cancer called Sutent made by drug giant Pfizer, has been stopped recently in trials. The reason is not that it was totally useless to help treat cancer, but [...]
When it comes to making sure we do everything that is possible in our power to help prevent breast cancer, there are definitely some dietary items that we should consider consuming more heavily in our diet. Of course, most of them are naturally occurring foods – well make that, all of them are, and they [...]
We get to talk about so many new developments in breast cancer, breast cancer prevention and different ways to go about treating different strains of the potentially deadly disease. Well, there’s another diagnosing-type treatment that may help oncologists to determine the different “personalities” of breast cancer, and tailor the treatment to the tumors that way [...]
There may be a new tool on the horizon for doctors to use when it comes to determining the likelihood of a woman responding well to treatment for breast cancer. Since we now have genetic testing to tell a woman if she may be more susceptible genetically to getting breast cancer in the first place, [...]
Hmm, this is some very interesting information, and points to the conclusion that men may indeed need to be very worried about whether they are also carriers for the breast cancer gene, which is known for dramatically increasing the likelihood that a woman may develop breast cancer, and which also may prove to be a [...]
I decided that we should reiterate what some of the potential symptoms of breast cancer can be, since early detection and diagnosis usually leads to the best prognosis, availability of effective treatments, and time being on your side since the disease has not advanced so far that it has become untreatable. Women need to make [...]
Welll, this sounds like the stuff of science fiction, and where it’s headed I don’t know, and to be honest, even though it’s a result of the positive movement toward gene testing and breast cancer prevention through genetic testing, I’m not sure that this is a good thing that now we are starting to test [...]
In some good news for breast cancer treatment and research, it appears that a bone density drug called Zometa may help women strengthen their bone density (which is a common problem for us women as we age), but it may also help chemotherapy fight breast cancer. Why would they come to that conclusion, with two seemingly [...]
There is now a pretty conclusive study that shows that there is a definite link between breast cancer likelihood and the taking of supplements medically prescribed for menopause relief for five years or more. The two supplementations I’m speaking of are naturally occurring female hormones that tend to naturally dwindle with age and cause their [...]
We’ve all been reading about how technology combined with genetics-minded science have been coming up with some pretty mind blowing ways to help determine whether a woman is more prone to getting breast cancer at a certain point in her life or not, but there are newer and better ways being developed every day that [...]
In surprising and maybe even somewhat disappointing news for those that thought genetic testing was the end all be all for testing to see whether one is prone to developing breast cancer or not, there has been new evidence that breast cancer may be better detected and predicted through a thorough look at breast cancer [...]
There have been so many studies done on breast cancer to this day that it’s hard to keep track of some of the more seemingly random ones that link breast cancer to a certain medication, an event, a lifestyle, a type of food consumed, weight, diet, and the list goes one and on. This one [...]
Exercise, eat right, don’t smoke, don’t drink, and get your antioxidants! These are all things that we hear over and over again when it comes to how, as women, we can help our bodies to avoid the most common of female cancers, and one of the most deadly cancers to women still today, which is [...]
Although it is becoming a better known fact that obesity is tied to many different kinds of cancer in both women and men, there is still an alarming amount of women who do not know the serious increases in risks associated with certain types of female cancer which also happen to be especially deadly since [...]
Being a larger baby, that is, one that weighs more than the average baby and also may be longer than the average accepted size of babies, may actually increase your risk of breast cancer later in life. Or so one study has set out to prove there is a correlation. Why would there be a [...]
I really like Reese Witherspoon. She defies those stereotypes about young, spoiled starlets, and has shown a lot of class, never filmed or photographed stumbling out of clubs, and keeping her two adorable children out of the spotlight as much as possible, as well as putting forther a good example to her young fans by showing [...]
A few weeks ago, I started to sort of do one of those half hazard breast self exams on myself as I was lying awake in bed and thinking about how my mom had told me she had a mammogram and was fine, and of my Aunt who died much too young from breast cancer. [...]
This actually sounds a bit like something from a science fiction novel, but it’s really sounding like a promising way to detect early breast cancer highly effectively so far, so that much we know it exciting. With all the attention focused on breast cancer research, it’s nice to see that about a few times a [...]
Christina Applegate, perhaps best known for her breakout tv role in the hilarious and unconventionally witty Married with Children, has been recently diagnosed with very early stage breast cancer. Her doctors say that she should make a full recovery, and that since it was detected so early on, they can go in and get it [...]
Well, while I can’t really say I’d personally recommend this since there are actually a few women I know who were alerted to the fact that they had breast cancer because of self exams or sort of accidental self exams or exams by their significant other if you know what I mean, but there is [...]
I think we discussed this a few months back, but it’s been in the news again lately, how now mammograms are hopefully going to be a little bit more exact and efficient perhaps with a newer technology using 3-D or three dimensional glasses. Seeing in three dimension just means that you can see all angles [...]
There is a breast cancer that I wasn’t even aware existed, that is called a Triple Negative breast cancer, that is apparently and thankfully a rare form of the potentially deadly disease, but is also very hard to treat and deadly. This invasive form of breast cancer only affects about 15 out of one hundred invasive [...]
There is new evidence that the vitamin that is produced by the body when the body is exposed to sunlight, Vitamin D, may have benefits for breast cancer patients, which is part of an ongoing controversy about whether sunlight is any good for the body, and specifically, for breast cancer patients. The reason this became [...]
In the war against breast cancer, and more important, the increasing awareness the prevention is the best measure when it comes to breast cancer, there appears to be a new bit of evidence that may encourage young women to start exercising if they haven’t already, and at the very least, may encourage women to sway [...]
Trans fats have caused quite a stir here in approximately the past decade since they have been banned from many fast food restaurants (self imposed, surprisingly), and are under a lot of scrutiny for the health issues they contribute to as well as a controversial addiction that can be developed by eating a lot of [...]
As if there were not already enough reasons for women to make sure they keep their body fat percentage in check, there are many many more when it comes to looking at the risks of getting breast cancer, and now also there is conclusive evidence that supports the fact that obese women get a much [...]
The first lady, Laura Bush, has pitched in her helping hand in an issue which concerns all women, as it should, breast cancer. Breast cancer research and the fight to help find better treatments and preventive screenings methods has long been a passion of many women who have both fought the fight themselves at some [...]
There’s been a lot of hubub about the safety of HRT, or hormone replacement therapy, which was touted as a great way to counteract the effects of menopause in pre-menopausal and menopausal women, usually in their fifties or late forties. However, HRT has been largely stopped unless it is being taken for specific medical reasons, [...]
Mammograms are an essential part of every women’s periodic doctor checkups, especially once they are over the age of 40, since they can detect potential spots of breast cancer in their earlier stages, and are better at this than the manual massage/hand method that most women who may not be in a high risk category [...]
Well, this is certainly a little odd. Not only is it tough to get a drug through approval with the Food and Drug Administration of the United States, but it is very unusual to get a drug approved which has not already gotten the vote “yes” from the advisory panel that the FDA usually uses [...]
There’s a newer mammogram in town, and it’s going with the wave of the future by going digital. Think of it as the difference between a digital camera and a camera that still uses good old rolls of film sort of. The “old” way of doing mammograms is with traditional film, and the new way [...]
Hmm, this sounds very interesting, and promising, and best of all SIMPLE for women who may not have access to mammograms or simply think they don’t have the time for them or money to pay for them if they have no insurance. Plus, it may be cheaper than the much talked about genetic testing that [...]
Few words produce such imminent fear in women as the words “breast cancerâ€. However, one comforting fact remains in the fight against breast cancer and that is that the best protection against breast cancer is knowledge of the ways you can reduce the risk of acquiring the disease. Some of these promising treatments and detection [...]
This is not so shocking, but actually is somewhat of a surprise that they have already found out this information so early in the research stages of a new field : Genetic testing. We had posted a couple posts ago about how genetic testing has huge implications for breast cancer research, and for women who [...]
It’s an amazingly advanced concept that has come from the world of genetic research and the very brand new and budding field of genetic testing, which many think is the next step in our great medical research advancements, since it has so many indications in modern preventive science. Genetic testing could very well take us [...]
It used to be that the “standard” treatment for breast cancer involved some form of chemotherapy, especially if it was in more advanced stages. After studies were done that strongly suggested chemo may definitely not be all that it’s cracked up to be in the treatment of breast cancer, and that also it could affect [...]