Breast Health Blog

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I have been posting comments on this site for almost a year. I have searched the internet on an ongoing basis to find quality articles on breast health, safe screening techniques and overall preventative strategies. Are these helpful? Are you being educated, informed and inspired? SHOW ME- write a comment! Good or bad, I [...]

Less than two months since the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued new guidelines recommending against routine mammograms for women in their forties, a second breast cancer scandal involving a U.S. government panel of experts has come to light which has implications for healthcare reform.
An April 2009 study by Jessica Dolle et al. of the [...]

This test shows almost 1/3 of breast cancer patients didn’t need chemotherapy. Although this test is expensive, the cost completely outweighs the cost of chemotherapy- at an average of $10,000 PER CHEMO TREATMENT! This article was taken from medical news today.
A 21-gene test that predicts whether early stage breast cancer patients will benefit from chemotherapy is [...]

From Medical News today
US researchers found that pomegranates contain six natural compounds that may prevent the growth of hormone-dependent breast cancer by blocking the enzyme aromatase, which changes androgen to estrogen. However, experts caution this does not mean people should expect the same results from eating pomegranates, because this was an “in vitro” (test tube) [...]

Here is a good article to start off the new year right!!
A study conducted at Scott and White Healthcare in Temple, Texas, found that a new drug stopped the growth of breast tumors in mice. This drug is unique in that it works both by stopping the cancer cells from growing and metastasizing to other [...]

What are your thoughts? I feel surely that stress, sorrow, fear, pain loss and depression are huge factors. This article was taken from the Health Freedom Alliance blog- a great website. www.healthfreedomalliance.org
Scientists now know that loneliness causes increased breast cancer risk in rats. Whether that translates into loneliness causes breast cancer in humans is yet to [...]

If you like mushrooms this is your lucky day. If you like to wash them down with a little green tea you’ve hit the jack pot. Scientists found that women consuming at least a third of an ounce of fresh mushrooms every day were 64 per cent less likely to develop a breast cancer. The [...]

NEW ADICE FROM THE GOVERNMENT TASK FORCE…. HEY- WHAT ABOUT RECOMMENDING THERMOGRAMS?  DUH!!! (I did notice they didn’t talk at all about over radiating- which is why I am leary of their change). They also are not recommending women do monthly self breast checks. This I am opposed to- because only a woman knows if change [...]

I am having mixed feelings about this article… what are your thoughts? Cancer drug costs are so expensive- not to mention chemo treatments run about $10,000 each… add on radiation, hospital charges and doc’s fees: $$$$$$ Do I really think Docs are going to close up shop for    1-4%? WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?
PREVENTION, PEOPLE. It needs to be [...]

HOW EXCITING IS THIS NEWS? DOES IT COME IN CHERRY FLAVOR?
Scientists in the US have discovered that cancer tumors that don’t spread to other parts of the body secrete a protein called prosaposin and that metastatic tumors, which do spread, don’t secrete much of it. They suggest this discovery could lead the way to developing [...]