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Earwax, Body Odor and Cancer — Is There a Connection?
Gene Variant Links Three Disparate Conditions In the department of strange but true... a recent Japanese study concerning breast cancer…
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Do You Really Need a Mammogram?
Women, you’ve been trained to be on the ball about keeping up with mammograms for breast cancer detection—and, while there’s…
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Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Death Risk
Vitamin D is often in the news because most Americans get too little of it...and because deficiencies are associated with…
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Breast Cancer Guide: Prevent, Detect, Treat, Recover
Advances in Breast Cancer Treatment Women who have breast cancer are now living longer than they did only five years…
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Breast Cancer Rehab: Vital Therapies Survivors Need But Don’t Get
For many breast cancer patients, the challenges don’t end on the last day of treatment. They continue to suffer from…
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Vitamin D Eases Breast Cancer Drug Pain
Drugs called aromatase inhibitors, which are used to treat breast cancer, can make muscles and joints so painful and stiff…
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Help for Lymphedema: Preventing Arm Swelling After Breast Cancer Surgery
When a friend of mine went to her first breast cancer support group meeting, she was surprised that the conversation…
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Lack of Sleep Increases Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk
We all have occasions when we stay up late because we're too busy for bed…or when we toss and turn,…
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Migraine Headache Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk
Silver Lining for Sufferers... Migraineurs May Have Less Cancer Could there be an upside to the misery of migraines? Yes,…
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New Clarity on Breast Cancer Screening
“I might be dead by now if I had done what those guidelines are now telling women to do. In…
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Best Cancer-Screening Tests for Women with Dense Breasts
Have you ever been told that you have dense breasts? It’s an important piece of information because women who have…
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Advances in Breast Cancer Treatment
Five recent advances are dramatically changing treatment approaches… Women who have breast cancer are now living longer than they did…
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Key to Preventing Lymphedema After Breast Cancer
After breast cancer treatment, about half of patients develop a distressing and potentially disfiguring complication called lymphedema. The condition involves…
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Breakthrough Test for Breast Cancer Risk
If you wonder how likely you are to get breast cancer, the new Halo "breast pap" test can give you…
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Mighty Mushrooms Combat Breast Cancer
Breast cancer. Those two words strike fear into the heart of just about any woman—and with good reason. According to…
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Can a Painkiller Keep Breast Cancer Away?
Surgical Analgesic May Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence You certainly don’t have to be a middle-aged woman to yearn for good…
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Thermography: The Breast Test Doctors Fight About
Utter the word thermography in a roomful of breast specialists and you’re likely to set sparks flying. Some doctors say…
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Should You Be Screened for Breast Cancer Genes?
If your family tree includes one or more relatives with a history of breast cancer, you probably know that you…
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Carbs Raise Risk for Breast Cancer—But Which Ones?
A new study shows that when it comes to preventing breast cancer recurrence, not all carbs are created equal—certain kinds…
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Breast Reconstruction Advances
A breast cancer diagnosis can be devastating, of course…and my heart goes out to each of the approximately 254,000 American…
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Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: The “Noncancer” Breast Cancer
Patients are confused, and no wonder—because doctors don’t even agree on the name, much less on how aggressively to treat…
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Dense Breasts Increase Your Cancer Risk—Here’s What Helps
Guys may not understand this, but we women really do sit around talking about things like how dense our breasts…
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Tender Breasts Mean Increased Cancer Risk for Hormone Therapy Users
If you are considering or currently using hormone therapy (HT) to ease menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and night…
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Taking Off Just a Few Pounds Protects Your Breasts
Have you heard the news about the big payback for shedding just a little extra body baggage? Here’s the scoop:…
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For Breast Cancer Radiation, Facedown Position May Be Safer
A woman with breast cancer who has had a lumpectomy also may have radiation to improve her odds of beating…
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The Breast Cancer Risk That’s as Bad as the Gene
Don’t we all want to weep when we think of kids battling cancer…and isn’t it great to know that most…
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Breast Cancer Update: Radiation or Not?
Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients May Fare Better Without Radiation Therapy Many women with breast cancer want to do anything and…
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Easier At-Home Prep for Breast Reconstruction Patients
After the wrenching experience of mastectomy, breast reconstruction can help restore a woman’s sense of wholeness. Yet fewer than half…
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Closer to a Breast Cancer Cure
You’re no doubt familiar with the old saying that if you want to succeed in business, you must "build a…
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Do You Need This New Breast Test… Or Could It Do More Harm Than Good?
When a friend told me that she was scheduled for a test called breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI), I was concerned.…
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Nervous About Needing a Breast MRI? Here
My coworker’s mammogram revealed a suspicious area in one breast, so her doctor recommended a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test…
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Combination MRI and Mammo Finds More Cancers
High-Risk Women May Identify More Cancers with One of Each, Six Months Apart At present, the gold standard of care…
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Squeaky Clean and… More Likely to Get Breast Cancer?
Breast Cancer and Chemicals in Cosmetics and Household Products Are you using personal-care and household products that are linked to…
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Breast Cancers That Disappear Without Treatment
Will "Watch & Wait" Someday Be Treatment Strategy for Some Breast Cancers? Mammograms save many lives, but screening for breast…
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Walnuts Slow Breast Tumor Growth in Mice
Two Ounces of Walnuts a Day Can Slow Growth of Cancer It’s time to bring back Waldorf Salad — that delicious…
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Apples Fight Breast Cancer
More Apples, Less Breast Cancer An apple a day may not only keep the doctor away — new research shows that…
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Pomegranates May Help Prevent Breast Cancer
The hormone estrogen causes certain breast cancer cells to proliferate. Lab finding: Compounds called ellagitannins, which are plentiful in pomegranates,…
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Breast Cancer Update
New treatments... new options... new hope Research on breast cancer is leading to new approaches to treatment and increasing the…
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Cutting Away Breast Cancer Concerns
More Women Now Choose Double Mastectomy for Curable DCIS Breast Cancer Significant advances in diagnosis and treatment mean that we…
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Post-Menopause Weight Gain = Higher Breast Cancer Risk
It's Never Too Late to Reap Anti-Cancer Benefits of Weight Loss Some women shrug off their post-menopausal weight gain as…
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Better than a Mammogram?
New Technology Makes Breast Thermography Better, More Effective Till now, I’d only ever encountered ads and information on breast thermography…
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Soy for Breast Cancer
Villain or protector? There has been a lot of controversy about the benefits of soy as it relates to cancer.…
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Plant-Based Diet Increases Breast Cancer Survival
Post-Menopausal Women with Cancer Lived Longer with Lignan-Rich Diet We already know that plant-rich diets are rich in health benefits,…
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New Test Can Reduce the Need for Breast Biopsies
When breast lesions look suspicious on mammograms and ultrasounds, biopsies often are done—but 80% of breast biopsies turn out to…
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Get Through the Mammogram Maze
There has been so much controversy lately about mammography for detecting breast cancer—whether to have a mammogram at all and…
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How Red Wine Affects Breast Cancer Risk
If you’re a woman, then you already know that one daily drink of alcohol may raise your risk for breast…
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The Authoritative Breast Cancer Update
What you need to know about new recommendations on mammography—and when to use other screening tests When the US Preventive…
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Multivitamins and Breast Cancer Recurrence
Any woman who has faced breast cancer wants to do all within her power to prevent a recurrence, of course,…
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Not All Breast Cancer Radiation Is Created Equal
Women with early-stage breast cancer who need to undergo lumpectomy must choose one of three types of radiation. If you’re…
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Brush Your Teeth to Protect Your Breasts
Can keeping teeth healthy help fend off breast cancer? It might, according to a recent study from Karolinska Institute in…
