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Alternative cancer treatment

Whenever we hear the word “cancer”, for most of us it’s usually a death sentence. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Many people have been diagnosed with cancer and lived to tell the story. Another common misconception is that cancer therapy has to be “all or nothing”, meaning that you either have conventional […]

HRT and breast cancer

Last month researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center announced that the incidence of breast cancer in the United States had dropped by just over 7% in 2003. This drop came after the WHI brought out a report showing an increase in the risks for breast cancer and stroke for women taking […]

Breast cancer - Fewer women having mammograms

Fewer American women are having mammograms to screen for breast cancer. This is according to a study carried out by the National Cancer Institute and the Center For Disease Control. The opposite had been the case for 20 years before the period of the study with increasing numbers of women having mammograms each year.
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Breast cancer worse in obese women

A very aggressive form of breast cancer known as inflammatory breast cancer has been found to be more common in obese women compared to women that are overweight or have a normal weight. The more obese a woman is the more aggressive and dangerous the breast cancer is. Breast cancer patients who are overweight or […]

Prevent breast cancer - Remove your ovaries?

Women with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 abnormalities in their genes have been found to have a high risk of developing breast cancer in their lifetime,up to 80%, compared with women who do not have these abnormalities who have an estimated 12% chance of developing breast cancer in their lifetime. Some women at very high […]