Breast Cancer Articles

1). Your Deodorant – Is There Danger Lurking Within? By : Christine Farlow
Did you ever read the ingredients on your deodorant label and wonder about the safety of the almost unpronounceable chemicals listed in the too tiny to read print? If not, you're like most people. You don't expect to find products on store shelves that contain harmful ingredients. But beware...
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2). Deodorant - Top 7 Ingredients To Avoid By : Christine Farlow
The first thing you must do whenever you buy deodorant or any product that goes on your skin or in your body is to read the ingredients... This is critical because what you put on your skin can be absorbed directly into your bloodstream.
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3). Stimulating the Body’s Defenses to Fight Ovarian Cancer By : James E. Finch
Comediennes such as Gilda Radner and Madeline Kahn, Oscar-winning actresses like Loretta Young and Sandy Dennis, singers Laura Nyro and Dinah Shore, actor Pierce Brosnan’s wife Cassandra Harris, actress Jessica Tandy, former Connecticut governor Ella Grasso, and Martin Luther King’s wife Coretta Scott King all died of ovarian cancer. It’s not just celebrities, politicians or movie stars, who are stricken with ovarian cancer.
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4). Herbal And Alternative Treatments For Breast Cancer By : Mary Hanna
Medical Doctors are finding that alternative treatments, such as herbs, help women with breast cancer during their chemotherapy and radiation. Research papers have shown that women with breast cancer find herbal remedies and alternative medicine helps in relief of fatigue, nausea and sleep disorders.
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5). Women's Health And The Mammogram Controversy By : Frank Vanderlugt
Despite the urgings of national health organizations for women to have annual or biannual mammograms after the age of 40, uncertainty and controversy about the procedure persists. Based on cumulative evidence, screening mammography has become standard health care in many countries. However, the value of the procedure has been challenged by two Danish researchers who reviewed the major clinical trials of screening mammography declared that five of the seven trials were flawed and that none demonstrated that it saved lives.
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6). Major breakthrough in the understanding of cancer By : John S. Boyd, Ph.D.
Hunting for Genetic Mutations and Cancer The current paradigm in medical research holds that the cause of most cancers is a genetic mutation. For instance, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), an institute at the NIH, "all cancers are based on genetic mutations in body cells." In fact, mutation hunting is big business..
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7). Green tea and its numerous health benefits By :
Copyright 2006 David Maillie The Asian community has used different teas and herbal remedies since before the Great wall of China (over 3000 years ago) and green tea has stood out as one of its hallmark and most helpful constituents. Green tea has been used to treat everything from heart attacks, stroke to infections like sepsis (blood infection) and numerous other conditions and maladies.
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8). Breast Cancer - A Death Sentence Caused By Neglect By : kacycarr
The biggest majority of women who concern themselves over develping breast cancer are the ones who do not even bother to do a self examination (Not all) Self inspection of the breasts should be a main priority for every woman. Breast cancer caught in the early stages of growth will give better odds for the patient to control the disease with the help of today`s modern medicines and technology.
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9). Solution To Breast Cancer! By : Camry James
How long should a patient take tamoxifen for the treatment of breast cancer? Patients with advanced breast cancer may take tamoxifen for varying lengths of time, depending on their response to this treatment and other factors. When used as adjuvant therapy for early stage breast cancer, tamoxifen is generally prescribed for 5 years. However, the ideal length of treatment with tamoxifen is not known.
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10). Breast Cancer - What Everyone Should Know By : Brooke Hayles
Although research into breast cancer prevention is an ongoing process, there have been a number of breakthroughs recently. The National Cancer Institute has tested a number of drugs that could potentially prevent the disease altogether.
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11). Is Your Bra Hazardous To Your Health? By : Georgia Donovan
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer found in women, and this year alone 192,000 new cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. It eventually strikes one out of every eight American women. Breast cancer also causes more deaths than any other form of cancer in women under age 55. As women, we all fear breast cancer. It is the one disease that sends chills down our spines and puts a knot in our stomachs.
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12). Breast Cancer Information - Every Woman Should Read This By : Tyson J Stevenson
Millions of women are affected with breast cancer all around the world. Breast cancer is growing like an epidemic and is predicted that 45,000 patients will die from breast cancer, this year. If you feel a solid lump in your breast, you must visit a specialist for consultation.
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13). How to Prepare for a Mammography and What to Expect By : Lori S. Anton
Although it usually occurs in women over 35 years of age, breast cancer knows no age, race, social, or lifestyle barriers. It can strike any woman at any time, regardless whether or not she has ever smoked, taken an alcoholic beverage, or ever taken birth control. Although certain factors can increase a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer, every woman is at risk.
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14). Breast Cancer Treatment: Conventional Treatment Methods By : Melissa Buhmeyer
Your team of doctors will make treatment recommendations based on the stage of your cancer. Your standard treatment options may include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and hormone therapy. If you have been diagnosed with DCIS or LCIS, your stage is the lowest and the road you will travel will be easier. For DCIS, your options may include breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy with or without radiation and hormone therapy.
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15). Recognizing And Battling Breast Cancer By : Sue Jan
Breast cancer occurs due to the irrepressible growth of cells in the breast that invades the nearby tissues and spreads throughout the body. These collections of irrepressible growth of tissue are called tumors or malignant tumors. However, not all tumors are cancerous. Breast cancer has been diagnosed in large numbers in North America and Europe. In 2001, about 200,000 cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in the United States alone.
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16). Breast Cancer Ribbon By : Jonathan Mayheart
These days almost every worthy cause finds itself a proper ribbon, without getting into the debate about the use of ribbons and how people use them, there are not many ribbons that I know of that are more important than the breast cancer ribbon. Breast cancer is a dangerous enemy, while it is true that the awareness to its risks and the understanding.
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17). Breast Cancer Risk: Simple Steps to Prevent Disease By : Alex Fir
If young women take certain simple steps when they are adolescents, they may reduce risk of breast cancer later in life. A research suggests that puberty could be a crucial time for development of breast cancer. Regular exercise is believed to delay the beginning of a girl's first menstrual period. That is when the body creates hormones that stimulate the majority of breast cancers.
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18). Breast Cancer: Steps To Aid In Early Detection By : Donna Rivera-Loudon
I learned some interesting facts about breast cancer that I feel every woman should know. The sources I used for this article included the American Cancer Society, The National Cancer Institute, and the Avon Foundation’s Breast Cancer Crusade. Early breast cancer isn’t usually detected by pain. In fact, when breast cancer first develops, there may be no symptoms at all.
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19). Breast Cancer : Explained in Detail. By : Chetan Bhawani
Introduction Breast Cancer is a form of cancer that occurs in the breast tissue. Although the breast is made up of similar tissues in both males and females, breast cancer occurs mostly in females. Causes Like other cancers, breast cancer is an uncontrollable growth of breast cells, and is caused due to the mutation of certain genes present in your breast cells.
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20). Increasing Awareness With a Breast Cancer Bracelet By : Riley Hendersen
The breast cancer bracelet is just like any other bracelet that you would think nothing of buying and wearing; but you have the added benefit of knowing that in wearing the bracelet you are promoting breast cancer awareness and, in so doing, are part of a community that is saving lives.
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21). Vitamin D: Can it Really Keep You Cancer Free? By : R. Edward Jones
Can Vitamin D really help prevent you from developing cancer? Once only associated with strong bones and teeth, new scientific research is finding that Vitamin D can cut your risk of developing common cancers by as much as 50%. Says Sara Hiom, head of health information at Cancer Research UK, “There is evidence to suggest that the vitamin (Vitamin D) plays a role in keeping cells healthy.
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22). Major Discovery: How Carcinogens Cause Cancer By : John S. Boyd, Ph.D.
The current belief in medical research holds that most cancers are caused by exposure to carcinogens, and that carcinogens cause cancer by damaging DNA. However, the huge effort and billions of dollars invested by the NIH, private foundations, and pharmaceutical companies in searching for damaged DNA in cancer has produced few discoveries and little benefits to the public.
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23). CANCER, New Alternative Therapy By : Luis Quiroz R.
Created in the amazonian forest, by a Brazilian monk, a new natural treatment to cure and to prevent cancer, seems to be an interesting alternative in the fight against cancer. The priest affirms, he has obtained real results in several types to cancer : cancer of breast, cancer of uterus, cancer of stomach, cancer of skin, cancer of prostate, etc..
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24). Breast Cancer, learn all about it! by Nguang Nguek-Fluek By : Nguek-Fluek Nguang
Our bodies are made of small structures called cells, which can only be seen through a microscope. Several cells from tissues and organs, such as liver, brain, kidneys or lungs, each with a different function. Normally, our cells divide and multiply by themselves, ensuring the growth and repairing of body tissues. A disease can interfere with this normal cycle in a variety of ways.
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25). Abnormal Mammogram - What Now? By : Barbara C. Phillips, NP
It’s 10am on a Tuesday morning. You are getting ready for a meeting with your team when a phone call comes in for you…from your health care provider. It seems your routine annual mammogram has found a small spot that needs further evaluation. Now what? No doubt about it, an abnormal mammogram is a scary thing. The first thing you should remember is that 80 percent of these lumps turn out to be benign, meaning they are not cancerous.
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