Breast Health Blog

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 [...]

WOULDN’T THAT BE GREAT!!! YIPEE!! This is exciting news!
This article is taken from Medical News today.
New Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Biomarker NVB-64 Visualizes Malignant Breast Tumors
30 Oct 2009   
Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, supported in part by NuView Life Sciences, have published an article in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine reporting preclinical results of [...]

Here is a very good article posted a while back that was recently emailed to me. Very insightful & factual.
http://www.naturalsolutionsmag.com/articles-display/14581/Breast-Check-Do-mandatory-mammograms-do-more-harm-than-good-

Hi All…
Yes, I took the summer off of blogging but I am coming back strong in the month of October! Check back for weekly updates and posts.
I want to talk about the UBCF. This foundation is a blessing - as it does not donate to drug companies, lobbyists, insurance and highly paid CEO’s pocketbooks. Who [...]

The average woman (without an inherited breast cancer gene abnormality) in the United States has about a 12% risk of developing breast cancer over a 90-year life span. In contrast, women who have an abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene have up to an 85% risk of developing breast cancer by age 70. Women with BRCA1 [...]