November 20, 2006 – 11:28 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
New study suggests eating large amounts of red meat may double young women’s breast cancer risk.
US researchers writing in Archives of Internal Medicine looked at over 90,000 pre-menopausal women.
Having one-and-a-half servings of […]
October 9, 2006 – 10:44 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
What about other risk factors?
It may be awhile before scientists are able to nail down the environmental causes of breast cancer. But in the meantime, there’s evidence that plenty of other everyday risk factors, such as exercise, alcohol, and weight, come into play. The thread that connects most of these to breast cancer is the […]
October 6, 2006 – 8:34 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Avoiding everyday risks
The truth is, it’s impossible to avoid all the things suspected of increasing breast cancer risk. It can seem overwhelming even to try.
Inconvenient Women can focus on a few steps that can mean a big payoff; and for the skeptics and naysayers at least they couldn’t hurt.
limit exposure to chlorine by filtering drinking […]
October 5, 2006 – 12:29 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Seeking a Safer World Now
While encouraged by the increased scientific attention to environmental risks, breast cancer activists refuse to wait around until all the findings are in. They are insisting that policy makers begin acting on the precautionary principle by avoiding the use of potently harmful chemicals now.
Last year, San Francisco and Berkeley became the […]
October 4, 2006 – 11:24 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Boomers grew up in a Toxic World
In the early fifties, shoe stores that catered to children had foot X-ray box. Children placed their foot in the box and it would show your bones. Allegedly it helped sales people properly fit our new shoes. In reality most kids played with it – shoving in feet […]
October 3, 2006 – 10:19 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Rachel’s Daughters
Nancy Evans, produced a film called Rachel’s Daughters, which followed eight women with breast cancer as they visited prominent researchers and quizzed them about the roots of the disease. She and her collaborators grew increasingly frustrated as one expert after another was unable to offer definite answers, despite an abundance of suspected causes: hormones, […]
October 2, 2006 – 11:37 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
I never thought very much about women’s health issues until I met Leslie Botha in 2002. My world was business, researching and writing. I was contented as one of Borden’s cows. I happily sat at my keyboard or in the research section of some library, using my brain, whilst my body atrophied into a […]
September 3, 2006 – 12:51 pm
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Overview: Breast Cancer Research/Treatment vs Merck’s Big Payday
The furor of the FDA’s rapid approval of Merck HPV Vaccine (Gardasil) and the ‘pre/post vaccine approval’ marketing and legislative blitzkrieg by Merck is now turning into jaw-dropping sticker-shock.
The cost of ‘immunizing’ over 21 million sixth-grade girls in the United States today, at $360 for a three-shot series […]
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer.
In 2006, an estimated 212,920 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed, along with 61,980 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. And 40,970 women are expected to die in 2006 from this disease.(1.)
Breast cancer is the leading cancer […]
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Yes, mammograms can be uncomfortable, even painful for large-breasted women, but they are still the most commonly used procedure to detect breast cancer…
What is the best method of detecting breast cancer?
What is a mammogram?
Are there different types of mammograms?
How is a mammogram done?
What if I have breast implants?
How often should I get a mammogram?
Where can […]
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