Breast Cancers
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What are the signs or symptoms of breast cancers?
obviously a lump of any kind, nipple discharge, pain/dull ache in breasts, hot to touch,
alot of times there are no symptoms. you should have a mammogram and or an u/s to see.
my mom was diagnosed in dec. and she had no symptoms at all.
Breast Cancer Surgery: Lumpectomy, Mastectomy
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Breast Cancer Treatment Algorithm
This recommendation obviously conflicts with those of the American Cancer Society (ACS) and other groups.
Breast Cancer Treatment Algorithm
But many people wonder if the ACS recommendations aren’t some form of recruitment. After all, five radiologists have served as presidents of the American Cancer Society. The American College of Physicians, however, made recommendations similar to the USPS a couple of years ago and the National Breast Cancer Coalition has routinely warned women of the limitations and potential for harm that mammograms hold.
The USPS Task Force found that “Radiation-related breast cancers occur at least 10 years after exposure. Radiation from yearly mammograms during ages 40-49 has been estimated to cause one additional breast cancer death per 10,000 women.”
The National Cancer Institute states that among women under 35, mammography could cause 75 cases of breast cancer for every 15 it identifies. There’s really very little reason to have regular mammograms and
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Vitamin D May Prevent Breast Cancer
There are two new reports by cancer prevention specialists at Moores Cancer Center, Univsrsity of California, suggest that vitamin D in new prescriptions may prevent up to one half of all cases of breast cancer.
The study is published online in the current issue of The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It pooled data from two earlier studies by the Harvard Nurses Health Study and the St. George’s Hospital Study that alleged that people with the highest levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, 25(OH)D, had the lowest incidences of breast cancer.
The research was based on 1,760 cases of individuals in the two studies and divided them into five equal groups, from the lowest 25(OH)D at less than 13 nanograms per milliliter, to the highest group with 52 nanograms per milliliter.
“The data were very clear, showing that individuals in the
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when do i have radiation only after breast cancer surgery? when i heal from surgery? or right away?
The primary and initial treatment for the majority of breast cancers is surgery. (The rare exception nowadays is that for very advanced or cancers with special skin involvement, many oncologists recommend starting with chemotherapy prior to surgery.) Historically, the main surgical treatment was a mastectomy – or removal of the entire breast. As surgery got more advanced, and pathology got better, and doctors learned that many women would really like to keep their breast if they could (doctors have always been a bit slow to realize the obvious), then “lumpectomy” – or removal of a small amount of breast tissue with the goal of removing the entire tumour and a certain amount of surrounding normal breast tissue – became much more common.
The challenge here was that despite good lumpectomies, that looked like they
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All Forms of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Increase Breast Cancer Risk
One of the most common questions that I am asked is if there are any safe forms of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for women who are experiencing severe symptoms associated with menopause. Since the release of the preliminary results of the pivotal Women’s Health Initiative study, in 2002, which clearly showed that standard combination HRT (containing the two primary female sex hormones) was associated with a significant increase in the risk of developing breast cancer, a number of alternative “safer” forms of HRT have been proposed. These alternative forms of HRT have included transdermal estrogen patches (which are placed on the skin) and other forms of “bioidentical” HRT hormones.
Advocates of transdermal estrogen patches note that the adverse effects of estrogen-based HRT pills on cholesterol, as well as their association with an increased risk of
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