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Breast Cancer Drug Shows Promise for Ovarian Cancer Treatment
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 [...]
French Breast Implant Warning
The arm of the government in France that deals with health and medical devices, sort of like our FDA here in the US, has issued a warning to French women who received a particular brand of silicone breast implant recently that they may want to get screenings. They even said the women may want to [...]
Giuliana Rancic’s Double Mastectomy Decision : Thoughts?
E! News correspondent Guiliana Rancic, formerly Depandi, has made news several times lately for her battle against breast cancer. She’s young, so it’s always a shock when women younger than fifty five have breast cancer, but it’s actually more common than people think, we just don’t catch it until later stages because of higher rates [...]
Evelyn Lauder, Champion of Breast Cancer Awareness, Dies
Evelyn Lauder, who is related to the cosmetics magnate Estee Lauder, has passed away. But she is not only notable for her relationship to one of the biggest names in cosmetics and ingenuity. She is actually the creator of the pink ribbon that is used for breast cancer awareness as we know it today. Lauder [...]
Can Hormones in Birth Control or IVF Accelerate Breast Cancer?
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 [...]
Tamoxifen May Increase Risk of Diabetes
Tomoxifen is a well known drug that is given to women who have, or have had, breast cancer. It is supposed to help suppress the estrogens that can fuel breast cancer or ignite it again once remission has been declared. Older women who are taking the drug have shown a slightly increased risk for developing [...]
Medicaid Denies Coverage to Man with Breast Cancer
Apparently equal opportunity works both ways when it comes to sex discrimination. Although women are the most often discriminated against in the real world of politics, the job market and a myriad of other places (not the least of which is a car repair shop), it seems men are discriminated against in one key area. [...]
What is CAD Mammography?
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 [...]
Lower Risk Women Need Less Mammograms?
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 [...]
Docs Getting Better Breast Exam Instruction
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 and 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, [...]
Foods High in Oleic Acid Protect Against Breast Cancer
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 [...]
Are Underwire Bras Unhealthy?
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 Breast Cancer Treated wtih Mistletoe Extract?
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 [...]
Many Breast Cancers Preventable?
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 [...]
