Breast Cancer Stages and Survival Rates by: Moses Wright
Where the disease has not metastasized, the five-year survival rate for women suffering from breast cancer is about 86%. That percentage means that 86% of women who develop breast cancer live for at least fi...
Brca Breast Cancer Genes by: Empowered Doctor
Women who have BRCA breast cancer genetic mutations are just as likely to survive as other women who get breast cancer, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Women with BRCA1 and BR...
Facts of Breast Cancer by: Gary Giardina
When you go to the doctor the last thing that you want to hear is that you or someone that you dearly love has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Until it happens to you or someone you love, it seems that such a diseas...
Latest Discoveries on How to Treat Breast Cancer by: Paul P. Winyesci
Here are some recent news (Sep. 06) on how to treat breast cancer: Trials and research on how to treat the desease are not limited to North America. A University of Edinburgh scientist has evolv...
African American Women Need Earlier Screening for Breast Cancer by: Drahcir Semaj
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death for women, ages 40-55, and African American women under the age of 45 are more likely to develop breast cancer than any other group ...
The Fight Against Breast Cancer by: Catherine Harvey
Among some of the bigger reasons for a payout from private health insurance companies is for the incidents of breast cancer. Currently, this disease kills 1200 women and 100 men in the UK every year. These figur...
Young Women Are Learning To Fight Back: What You Can Do To Reduce Your Breast Cancer Risk by: Pat Carpenter
The American Cancer Society predicts 34,170 new cancer cases in Texas this year. Of those, 2, 480 are expected to be breast in third place, following lung (...
Herbs and Natural Supplements for Breast Cancer by: Brian B. Carter, Ms, Lac
A returning patient called me yesterday. She was a breast cancer survivor when I saw her as a student intern in Chinese medical school. If I had been more confident at the time, I would ...
W.H.O. gets cancer by: Simon Mitchell
Below The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) summarise what we know about cancer from scientific research:
Cancer is largely preventable: by stopping smoking, providing healthy food and avoiding the exposure to carcinogens.
So...
Does your Mother Do Her Monthly Breast Self-exams? by: Jolie Abreu
You are probably thinking, "How should I know?"...but shouldn't you? According to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, one in seven women in the US will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her li...
Could Green Tea Provide A Cure For Cancer? by: Marcus Stout
Cancer is a complex, devastating illness which is responsible for the deaths of millions of people each year. For decades, scientists have been attempting to uncover some of the secrets of cancer in order...
Health Effects of Smoking by: Peter sams
SmokingToday we're more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on TV, radio, and in many magazin...
Infertility and Des Exposure by: Infertility Doctor
Women who were pregnant between 1938 and 1971 were commonly given diethylstilbestrol (DES) by their doctors. DES is a synthetic estrogen. Doctors used to believe that DES helped to reduce the number of miscarriag...
