How To Cure Breast Cancer
What is Breast Cancer? Breast Cancer is the disease that structures in the cells of the bosoms. After skin disease, bosom malignancy is the most widely recognized malignant growth analyzed in ladies in the United States. Breast cancer can happen in the two people, yet it’s undeniably progressively basic in ladies. Generous help for breast […]
What Are The Type Of Breast Cancer?
You and your doctor need to know the type of breast cancer you have to get the best outcome. Your treatment will depend on where your cancer started, whether it has invaded other breast tissue or spread to other parts of your body, and whether hormones like estrogen or progesterone fuel its growth, among other […]
Mammograms And Breast Cancer Guidelines Change And Differ Once Again
If you’re feeling confused about mammograms and what type of schedule to stick to, you’re not alone. It seems that every time new guidelines come out, little time passes before those guidelines change once again. And it’s not uncommon to find differing opinions from different organizations, which only makes the issue that much more bewildering. […]
Breast Cancer: The Good, The Bad, The Confusing
The good news is that cases of breast cancer in the United States, which had been increasing for more than two decades, began dropping around the turn of the century and have continued to do so. It’s thought that the main reason for this decrease is the decline in the use of hormone therapy […]
On Being a Breast Cancer Survivor
Getting through treatment is only the beginning. The impact of breast cancer is as individual as the women who survive it. It can be an arduous though temporary challenge or an experience so transformative that it divides existence into two parts before and after. Perry Colmore has experienced the disease both ways. When she was […]
How To Care For Someone Living With Breast Cancer
A breast cancer diagnosis doesn’t affect just one life. It can flip the lives of family and friends upside down, so it’s important to guide not only the patient but also loved ones through this difficult time. The patient’s friends and family play a crucial role in recovery and beyond. It’s up to them to […]
Should Breast Self-Exams Be Shown On TV?
Breast self–exam (BSE), or regularly examining your breasts on your own, can be an important way to find a breast cancer early, when it’s more likely to be treated successfully. Not every cancer can be found this way, but it is a critical step you can and should take for yourself. Over the years, there has been some […]
Can You Prevent Breast Cancer?
Those three words hold so much power. They’re life-altering in too many ways to measure. They’re words that every women hopes they’ll never have to hear. And as a survivor who has heard those words, I’d like to be able to say that you’ll never, ever have to hear them. But there’s no sure way to […]
So You Think You Can’t Stay Up-to-Date on Breast Cancer?
October is the month I inevitably think about getting older (yes, I’m a Libra baby), and the month that surrounds us not only in glorious fall foliage colors but a color particular to a disease: breast cancer. So many things have changed since my own breast cancer diagnosis in 1988. One thing that hasn’t changed […]
Breast Cancer: What You Can Do to Lower Your Risk
Few diseases elicit as many emotions as breast cancer. We all know someone who has dealt with it; we all fear it and feel powerless over it. But despite some contributing factors like family history, toxins in the environment and too many unknowns about what else might cause it to develop, there are some things that […]
The Latest Breast Cancer News
More than 230,000 new cases of breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in our country in 2011. Though death rates are declining by 31 percent, incidence rates are not keeping pace, only declining by about 5 percent. And since less than 10 percent of the cases are genetic, clearly more needs to be learned about […]
