Breast Cancer Articles

Chicago Tribune - Women who have one to two drinks a day increase their breast cancer risk by 13 percent. With four drinks, the risk is 50 percent higher. That's twice the increase in relative risk attributed to Prempro, the hormone pill tested in the Women's ...

Frederick News-Post - After Joe Reid’s diagnosis of breast cancer, his wife Cathy began a website dedicated to helping people learn more about a man’s risk. To learn more, visit http://outoftheshadowofpink.com . WOODSBORO -- In a month filled with charity walks, pink ...

Baltimore Sun - Theresa Harris found it in her breast one Friday when she was changing her clothes for bed at home in Damascus. And it wasn't just any day. It was the day in July that her sister underwent a double mastectomy to remove her breast cancer and prevent ...

Forbes - Worldwide, cervical cancer affects more than 400,000 women annually and, after breast cancer, is the second-most-common malignancy found in women. Cervical cancer is caused by "high-risk" types of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which are sexually ...

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago's breast cancer death rate is 68 percent higher in black women than in white women. After a year of study, a big task force on Wednesday proposed 37 ways to narrow this racial gap, including free mammograms for the uninsured and racial ...

Christian Today - NEW YORK - The findings of a series of animal studies indicate that calcium deficiency, which accelerates the rate that calcium is absorbed back into the bone, promotes breast cancer tumor growth in bone, Australian researchers report. "Calcium ...

Hindustan Times - ... to use of a high dose of supplements and is likely not achievable through consumption of food alone, the researchers said. Both DIM and genistein are already being developed for use as a preventive and a chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer ...

Tahoe Daily Tribune - WASHINGTON (AP) - Removing just her cancer, not her whole breast, at first sounded like a good option to Trisha Stotler Meyer. Two years later, a cyst in her healthy breast sparked terrifying new checkups. "It was at that moment that my breasts ...

Northwest Arkansas News - FAYETTEVILLE — For Dr. Vina Pesaru, the quest to fight breast cancer and the disease’s stigma in her home country is personal. The Fayetteville resident and native of India lost her aunt to the disease in 2003. Bharathi Reddy, 54, was a college ...

Detroit News - Dear Dr. Donohue: Two years ago, I had surgery for breast cancer, and lymph nodes were also removed during the surgery. I recently developed lymphedema and am quite upset about it. I don't think I ever read where you (or anyone else) discussed it. I ...