Breast Cancer Articles

There’s now research that shows that obesity, alcohol and smoking increase the chances that breast cancer will return in women who have already beat it once. This was in an article written by Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor “A study found that being obese increased the risk of a second breast cancer diagnosis by 50 percent, one [...]

Long term use of Tamoxifen, the “gold standard” breast cancer drug, can increase the chance that if the disease returns it will be more aggressive and harder to treat, a new study shows. This was a line I read in an article not so very long ago. When did Tamoxifen become the “gold standard” breast [...]

Over the past few years, scientists believed that breast stem cells were the reason for women being diagnosed with BRCA1 tumors, an aggressive form of breast cancer with basal-like tumors. They’ve recently discovered at the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium Laboratory that luminal progenitor cells…the so-called “daughters” of breast stem cells…are the more likely cause [...]

The Web site, www.IllinoisCancerHelp.org, offers cancer patients treatment resources, information, and services. The American Cancer Society’s forecast for 2009 is that about 170 people on any given day in Illinois, will be diagnosed with cancer. They’re expecting the new site will help assist 27,000 people. That’s almost a 20% increase over last year. People shouldn’t [...]

Christopher Li, MD, PhD, a breast cancer epidemiologist, recently led a study in regards to previous research which showed that both premenopausal and postmenopausal women with a history of migraines also have a lower risk of developing breast cancer.  The study was published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention (2009;18[7]:2030-2034). The study included over 4500 [...]

The New England Journal of Medicine published a study in May, 2009 which indicates that older women who receive a combination of chemotherapy drugs have improved survival rates. This study specifically targeted older women with early-stage breast cancer and shows that chemotherapy can make a difference. The study included 600 women with stage I, II, [...]

Minority women don’t seem to be getting the word about breast cancer as loudly as they could be. Part of our goal is to reach those women who just don’t know or don’t believe they are as prone to getting this disease. The more women we educate, the fewer there will be who are dying [...]

As if women in general, and postmenopausal women even more, didn’t know that there are many reasons to exercise and eat well. Now, they’ve been given one more. HealthDay News has reported that a study has shown that women with high blood pressure, diabetes, insulin issues, or other types of metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance syndrome) [...]

Can placenta implants help cure breast cancer. According to recent cases, the answer appears to be yes. One patient, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, a stomach tumor and arthritis, began feeling better after her first treatment. She received a second set of implants after six months. She had a mammogram done about three [...]

The first question is, what does my job have to do with my decision to have a mastectomy? The answer may be…quite a lot. Breast cancer treatments in my grandma’s generation consisted of remove the breast and do radiation therapy. If it comes back, do chemotherapy. Well, as most women (and quite a few men [...]