Category Archives: Breast Cancer…and may limit effectiveness of these breast cancer detection methods Women who take combined hormone therapy for about five years have a higher risk of abnormal mammograms and breast biopsies. This, in turn, may decrease the effectiveness of these methods of detecting breast cancer, according to a new study published in the Feb. 25 issue [...]
Breast Cancer Statistics…What Are Your Chances? Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women. [...]
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer. About 182,460 women in the United States will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2008. About 40,480 women will die from the [...]
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 red meat per day almost doubled the risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer compared to three or fewer per week. UK [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 pleasantly [...]
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