All Entries in the "Breast Cancer" Category
Less Is More With Breast Cancer Treatment?
It is now being found that those women who had higher doses of radiation over a shorter duration (over three weeks) found as much benefit in the therapy as did others who received radiation over longer durations (5 weeks of treatment). According to the research, there is an equal efficacy of the shorter duration.
The shorter [...]
Some Breast Cancer Myths And Truths
There are several risk factors for breast cancer, and not all of them have been studied enough. Age and gender, however, are risk factors that cannot be helped.
Breast cancer strikes 1 out of every 8 women in a lifetime; the older a woman is, the higher the risk for breast cancer.
Estrogen, [...]
Breast Cancer Can Be Treated With Natural Therapy
Most courses of treatment for breast cancer can be very stressful to the patients. Surgery, hormone therapy, radiation treatment, chemotherapy – all are effective in destroying cancer, but their side effects can be physically and emotionally draining to the patient.
There are now doctors who recommend natural therapy as auxiliary treatments [...]
Estrogen For Breast Cancer Treatment?
In stark contrast with many commonly held views in the medical community; that of estrogen having a causal link with breast cancer, researchers have now reported that estrogen has actually been seen to shrink tumors that had become resistant to anti estrogen therapies.
It is being hailed as a paradoxical strategy to treat [...]
Mushrooms And Green Tea Are Shielding Against Breast Cancer
Our modern age that we are living in has brought upon us an increased risk of getting some life threatening disease.
The number of conditions, illnesses and diseases has certainly grown, so has the need of finding solutions and cures for these issues.
Scientists, doctors, researchers, experts of different kinds, they all have [...]
The Estrogen And Breast Cancer Controversy
Estrogen, the female hormone has often been blamed for causing breast cancer and the reason that is often cited for this is that estrogen is a female hormone, i.e. occurring more in women’s bodies than men, and the fact that far more women develop the cancer than do men (one man [...]
October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in the world; second only to Lung cancer and so what is imperative is that awareness about this common but pernicious cancer be spread, in terms of preventive measures, early detection, cures and therapeutic options.
So twenty five years ago, an initiative to [...]
Smoking, Alcohol And Obesity Ups Risk Of Second Breast Cancer
A recent research shows that obesity, alcohol consumption and smoking increases the chances of developing second breast cancer in women who already fought it off once.
Earlier studies has already concluded that breast cancer survivors have greater chances of developing recurrent breast cancer than women without first breast cancer.
According to new study led by the researchers [...]
