Breast Cancer:
Breast Cancer treatment and symptoms, breast cancer information and signs of breast cancer. Updates and research on breast cancer detection and treatment.
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Nov 6th, 2009
Women who undergo mastectomy now have a different option for breast reconstruction that combines tummy tuck. The surgery, called a DEIP (Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator) flap procedure, uses skin and fat from the abdomen to reconstruct the breasts, providing a tummy tuck at the same time.
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Nov 4th, 2009
Breast cancer cells that spread to the lymph nodes change form, a discovery that surprised Breakthrough Breast Cancer researchers in Great Britain. This new finding about the activity of breast cancers may lead to different ways to treat the disease.
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Oct 30th, 2009
WJLA is airing a four part series to teach women how to properly perform a breast self exam. The WJLA breast exam series has been met with some controversy, but is nevertheless important, and can certainly save lives. The first part of the WJLA breast exam series aired yesterday.
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Oct 24th, 2009
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Most of the focus is on women rather than men, but we need to raise the awareness of male breast cancer (MBC).
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Oct 19th, 2009
Lower-income women appear less likely to survive breast cancer than their more-affluent counterparts, and later diagnosis may largely explain why, a new study from the online journal BMC Cancer suggests.
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Oct 14th, 2009
Most patients get a recommendation for breast conservative surgery from their doctors according to a study in the Oct 14 issue of the journal JAMA.
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Oct 12th, 2009
Researchers found that about one in 10 women who undergo breast reduction surgery will have abnormal pathology reports. A preliminary study of the findings was presented at the ASCO Breast Cancer Symposium.
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Oct 10th, 2009
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center researchers say women who possess the high risk BRCA gene for breast cancer are being diagnosed with breast cancer earlier, compared to past generations. The BRCA gene places women at high risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer. The high risk gene is now linked to diagnosis of breast cancer six years earlier than previous generations of women.
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Oct 10th, 2009
In just a few short years, advances in research, prevention, and treatment of breast cancer have literally revolutionized the war in the fight to save lives. Breast cancer will be diagnosed this year in over 190,000 women, writes CNN, however, with the gigantic steps that have been taken to improve the treatment, these women can rejoice that we are winning the war on breast cancer.
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Oct 9th, 2009
Vitamin D is a critical nutrient for women who have breast cancer, yet the majority of them have low levels of the vitamin. Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center presented their findings about vitamin D on October 8 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Breast Cancer Symposium in San Francisco.