Surgery Choices for Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer
As a woman with early-stage breast cancer (DCIS or Stage I, IIA, IIB, or IIIA breast cancer) you may be able to choose which type of breast surgery to have. Often, your choice is between Treatment for breast cancer usually begins a few weeks ... [... more]
National Cancer Institute |
Dressed to Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras
 Amazon.com Review: Singer and Grismaijer have collected striking (but preliminary) evidence that bra-wearing may be a major risk factor associated with breast cancer: women who wear tight-fitting bras 24 hours a day are 125 times more likely to have [... more]
$11.95
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FDA Approves Tykerb for Advanced Breast Cancer Patients
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved Tykerb (lapatinib), a new targeted anti-cancer treatment, to be used in combination with capectabine (Xeloda), another cancer drug, for patients with advanced, metastatic breast cancer that is ... [... more]
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General Information about Breast Cancer and Pregnancy
Breast cancer is sometimes detected (found) in women who are pregnant or have just given birth. It may be difficult to detect (find) breast cancer early in pregnant or nursing women, whose breasts are often tender and swollen. Breast examination ... [... more]
National Cancer Institute |
Radiation for breast cancer ups heart disease risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - As a treatment for breast cancer, radiation, even modern regimens, appears to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for March 7. Earlier ... [... more]
Breast Cancer |
Test Determines Risk of Breast Cancer Returning
A new test uses genetic information to determine a woman's odds of her breast cancer spreading. FDA has cleared for marketing a test that determines the likelihood of cancer returning within 5 to 10 years after a woman's initial breast cancer. It ... [... more]
Food & Drug Administration |
Study: Hair Relaxers Not Linked to Breast Cancer
Using hair relaxers, even over a period of many years, does not appear to raise a woman's risk of breast cancer, according to a large study of African-American women. Researchers were looking at the possibility that exposure to chemicals in these ... [... more]
American Cancer Society |
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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Tell Me What to Eat to Help Prevent Breast Cancer: ...
what every woman needs to know: I bought this book because I almost lost my mother to breast cancer and Elaine Magee turned my greatest fear into hope in her 150 page book. I read it in one night--couldn't put it down. I want to buy this book for all of [... more]
$10.99
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Breast Cancer Journal: A Century of Petals
Named as a finalist for the 1993 National Book Award in Nonfiction, this exceptional book is now available in paperback. Wittman's diagnosis, treatment, and recovery is not about breast cancer as cold statistics or medically prescribed regimens; it's [... more]
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The Plant Programme: Recipes for Fighting Breast Cancer
A book I can't LIVE without!: It is 3 years since I bought this book,in April 2005, soon after being diagnosed with the most serious staging of prostate cancer. I had only just celebrated my 54th birthday and here was I being told that the prognosis was [... more]
$16.95
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Breast Cancer: Real Questions, Real Answers
There is HOPE in this book!: I highly recommend this excellent information-packed book for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer! In the first ten minutes of reading it, I found more reassurance here than I have found from anywhere else! I trust the [... more]
$14.95
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