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An increasing taste for Western-style junk food and unhealthy lifestyles have caused the rate of breast cancer among urban Chinese women to jump sharply over the past decade, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday.
One Saudi woman ignored the cancer growing in her breast for fear of seeing a male doctor. Another was summarily divorced on the mere suspicion she had the disease, while a third was dragged away from a mammogram machine — the technicians were men.
The widely used chemotherapy drug Taxol does not work for the most common form of breast cancer and helps far fewer patients than has been believed, surprising new research suggests.
A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease.
Older Chinese women who eat a Western-style diet loaded with meats and sweets appear to have a greater risk for breast cancer than women who eat mainly soy and vegetables, a new study has concluded.
The first experiment ever to show that low-fat diets could help prevent a return of breast cancer now reveals, with longer follow-up, that the benefit was almost exclusively to women whose tumor growth was not driven by hormones.
U.S. breast cancer rates plunged an unprecedented 7 percent in 2003, the year after millions of women stopped taking menopause hormones when a study showed the pills raise the risk of tumors.
Younger breast cancer patients seem to suffer more serious side effects from chemotherapy than previously thought. Roughly one in six of those women wind up at the emergency room or hospitalized because of such side effects as infection, low blood counts, dehydration or nausea, researchers reported Tuesday.
The boys in blue were pretty in pink. More than 30 San Jose bicycle patrol officers donned pink polo shirts and wore pins that said "breast man," while escorting participants in the 39-mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
Women going through treatment for breast cancer felt better when they tried yoga, according to one of the first scientific studies of its kind.
Haley Wenthe and Jessica Sheahon have had close experiences with breast cancer: Wenthe's mother died from it five years ago, and Sheahon's mom completed chemotherapy not long ago.
During National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it is fitting and proper that women be informed about any newly discovered dangers, even as the public groans under the weight of all the warnings surrounding the mere act of living.
A research team from the Northern California Cancer Center, the University of Southern California, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine has found that increased exposure to sunlight – which increases levels of vitamin D in the body -- may decrease the risk of advanced …
SALINA, Kan. -- Two Salina Central High School seniors designed T-shirts to raise money for breast cancer awareness, but an assistant principal banned one of the designs from school.
Elizabeth Edwards has been extraordinarily open about her battle with breast cancer. "When I was first diagnosed, I was going to beat this. I was going to be the champion of cancer," she told NEWSWEEK in a recent interview. "And I don't have that feeling now.
You eat your veggies, you exercise at least a few times a week, you gave up cigarettes and hormone-replacement pills, and you have a glass of red wine every day, all because you care about your health. But one of these things is not like the others.
It's too soon to tell whether Aly's study will help make ultrasonic scalpels standard for cosmetic surgeries, but anything that improves these procedures will only make them more popular and accessible.
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Scientists found out a strong link between the size and shape of woman's hips and her daughter's probability of developing breast cancer in future.
Fascinating overview of ideas and findings about mammograms and breast cancer, from the mouths of the experts.
New research appears to show a link between alcohol and breast cancer in women.
I guess this is a rebuttal of sorts to the article I posted earlier, titled "Researchers Explain Why Having Baby Reduces Breast Cancer Chances".
Scientists at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center presented their results in the October 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Imagine being 21 years old, just starting college, making new friends, and trying to have fun. Now, imagine you have breast cancer. The whole world changes. Now, what do you do?
Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among American women between the ages of 44 and 55. Here is some alarming information about its causes.
Usually, that $5 or $10 entry into the campus Halo tournament ends up funding one of two things: a frat party's Natty Light Beer Pong Extravaganza (togas optional), or a super fan's commission of a Master Chief oil painting from the quirky, "she's funny" art major he wishes could …
....A woman had both of her breasts mistakenly removed after a lab headquartered out of Florida apparently switched her tissue specimens with a patient suffering from cancer.
Alcohol amount, not type -- wine, beer, liquor -- triggers breast cancer
Simple changes to women's lifestyles could prevent one in 10 cases of breast cancer by 2024, say experts. Cutting back on long-term HRT use, keeping in trim, drinking less, and exercising could help prevent 5,700 cases a year, said Cancer Research UK.
It doesn't matter if it's wine or beer, the increased breast cancer risk from drinking three or more alcoholic drinks a day is similar to the increased breast cancer risk from smoking a packet of cigarettes or more a day.
"Compared to (victims in the) U.S. and Europe, we're seeing pre-menopausal women in Asia, whereas in developed countries we are seeing post-menopausal women, in their mid-50s.
One of the largest individual studies of the effects of alcohol on the risk of breast cancer shows that it makes no difference whether a woman drinks wine, beer or spirits (liquor).
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