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Health Food Supplement - Add Flax Seed To Your Diet And Enjoy The Benefits
What is flax seed? First I will tell you what it can do. Number one, adding flax seed to your diet can fight cancer. It will help to regulate hormones and thus lower the risk of hormone sensitive cancers like prostate and breast cancer. Flax seed is ...
Lower Your Risk of Colon Cancer With the Right Fat
A high intake of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), which is a kind of fat found naturally in cow's milk, significantly lowers risk of bowel cancer, according to a new study. 60,000 Women Over 15 YearsMiddle-aged women who reported having the highest intake ...
Moderate exercise is necessary for good health.
At a minimum, walk a mile or more several times a week (ordaily) and move the arms around to loosen up the joints. If you can't walk or ride a stationary bicycle, use a rowing machine, swim, or join wheel chair races. If you can do none of these things, ...
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Developing breast cancer at a younger age-in a woman's 40s, 30s, even 20s-will mean making important and difficult decisions about one's life and future perhaps much sooner than originally expected.
One concern is developing breast cancer during pregnancy, which although rare, can still occur. In this case, the treatment chosen will not only affect the patient and her body, but the growing baby inside her as well. It will depend on what stage of pregnancy she is in (first, second or third trimester) and what stage her cancer is in-such as whether or not it's advanced.
Most pregnant women can have treatment for their breast cancer without affecting the baby. But some might be advised by their obstetrician or health-care practitioner-or even decide themselves-to terminate the pregnancy, more so if the pregnancy is in its earlier stages, in order to receive certain treatments that would be too risky otherwise. But it is essential to remember that it is a woman's own decision-it is not medically necessary to terminate a pregnancy if the expectant mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. All it does is limit treatment options. Breast cancer itself will not affect the fetus-only certain tests and treatments will.
Generally speaking, tamoxifen, chemotherapy, radiation, and other drug-related therapies are avoided if the woman is pregnant because of their associated risks with birth defects. Tamoxifen, especially, is considered very unsafe because it is a hormonal therapy and is never recommended if the woman is pregnant or planning on conceiving.
Surgery-either a lumpectomy or mastectomy-is the most common and preferred method of treatment for breast cancer in pregnant women.
Another concern is whether or not breast cancer survivors can or should go on to have children after treatment and recovery. It's a very controversial issue with firm advocates on both sides of the debate.
There are two main questions here, for both the medical and health community and breast cancer survivors wanting their own children: 1) Do certain breast cancer treatments affect fertility?; and 2) Is it actually considered safe to conceive and carry a baby to term following breast cancer and breast cancer treatments?
As far as fertility goes, there is no definite answer here. For chemotherapy, it depends on the age and what specific drug was used-some affect fertility more than others. And taking tamoxifen after chemotherapy to prevent recurrence is not recommended if the woman desires to become pregnant right away. Although tamoxifen is sometimes used as a fertility treatment, there is evidence to suggest that it damages developing embryos, and therefore is not considered safe to use.
Many doctors caution these women to wait several years to ensure receiving the best breast cancer treatment possible and to go past the point of the biggest threat of breast cancer recurrence. But some women decide to go ahead and have babies anyway, since it's so important to them.
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 Buffalo cancer research pays off - Buffalo News
A Buffalo researcher has determined the structure of a biochemical substance that leads to a majority of breast cancer tumors, a finding that could lead to more-effective therapies to treat and, perhaps, prevent the disease. Breast cancer growth ...
Matthew celebrates final treatment for breast cancer - Daily Record
Photo By Aaron Dorksen The Wooster girls swim team celebrates along with Chris Matthew (right) at Ellen Shapiro Natatorium after the Generals’ 15th-year coach completed her final treatment for breast cancer Wednesday. The Wooster swimmers are ...
Hormone therapy associated with reduced colorectal cancer risk - PhysOrg
The combination of estrogen plus progestin, which women stopped taking in droves following the news that it may increase their risk of breast cancer, may decrease their risk of colorectal cancer, according to a report published in the January issue ...
Sequoyah to raise money for breast cancer awareness - Muskogee Daily Phoenix
TAHLEQUAH — Sequoyah Schools will again participate in a nationwide breast cancer awareness event by wearing pink shirts and holding events to raise money for breast cancer awareness in connection with their home basketball game at 4 p.m. Jan. 31 ...
Hauptman closer to breast cancer cure - MSN MoneyCentral
A Buffalo researcher at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute has moved a step closer to a cure, and possibly the prevention, of the most common type of breast cancer. Debashis Ghosh, a senior research scientist, reached a milestone by ...
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