Do I Need a Mammogram? - Breast Cancer
Mammography is one of the three main types of breast cancer screening available to women today. The other two are the breast self exam (which we do ourselves) and the clinical breast exam (which is performed by a medical professional). There is a ... [... more]
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The 2008 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium - Breast Cancer
The 31st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium is in full swing, and great reports are coming in from the front lines by way of blogs and podcasts. We'll link to some of those highlights later in this article, but first - a brief overview of ... [... more]
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DCIS - Is it Cancer? - Breast Cancer
DCIS, or ductal carcinoma in situ, consists of abnormal cells inside the milk duct. It is considered a noninvasive pre-cancer. Some DCIS goes on to become invasive breast cancer; some does not. Because the potential of invasive breast cancer ... [... more]
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Stay Connected - Breast Cancer
One of the most difficult things that happens during breast cancer treatment, or any serious illness for that matter, is keeping family and friends up to date on our status. As much as it means to know that there is an entire world of people "out ... [... more]
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Breast Cysts - Breast Cancer
Nothing can send you over the edge quite like feeling a lump in your breast. When you get in the habit of doing regular self exams, you will have a good sense of what your breast tissue feels like. Some women have very "lumpy" breasts; others .. [... more]
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Diagnosis and Decisions - Breast Cancer
When you first hear the words, "I'm sorry. The results are positive. You have breast cancer," the world stops, as though someone pulled the plug and all of your senses stop functioning at once. The room goes black, the silence is deafening, [... more]
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Inflammatory Breast Cancer - Breast Cancer
Inflammatory breast cancer ("IBC") is an aggressive form of breast cancer, and the symptoms are different than the lump or abnormal mammogram results that most of us are familiar with. IBC is rare - it accounts for no more than 6 percent of all [... more]
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Sugar and Breast Cancer - Breast Cancer
In a word, no. Of course not. If you have a Snickers bar, it will not give you cancer. If we dig a little deeper, however, there are some interesting schools of thought around sugar and the role it plays in our cancer diagnosis. According to a ... [... more]
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Triple Negative Breast Cancer - Breast Cancer
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) tumors do not express any of the three significant markers that other breast cancers do. They are aggressive (high grade) tumors, and the survival rate for this breast cancer subtype is much lower than for ... [... more]
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