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Yesterday I received a media advisory email stating this: “New Guidelines Against Breast Self-Examination Could Seriously Endanger Women’s Health,” says Dr. Marisa Weiss, President and Founder of breastcancer.org.
New Danish guidelines advising the population not to perform BSEs are supported by a review – to be released later today – of BSE studies previously conducted in […]
Hot off the press … German researchers seem to have developed a new fertility technique that targets women with cancer.
“It is not new drugs,” said Michael Von Wolf, a researcher at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. “Everybody can do it.”
According to that Reuter’s release, the results were promising:
The technique stimulated the ovaries in about […]
There’s a cool ‘gadget’ website that my husband reads all the time called Engadget. Well, today they reported a story on 3D mammography, a way to x-ray breasts three dimensionally to check for breast cancer, particular helpful for women with dense breasts. Here’s a screen shot of that page.
Speaking of being dense … the caliber […]
CHECK OUT THE NEW LOOK OF BREASTCANCER.ORG !!!
From the press release I received today:
Breastcancer.org, the world’s most-trafficked website for breast cancer news and information and one of the world’s leading online communities for breast cancer patients, announced today a major re-launch of its website and brand.
Isn’t the redesign out of this world? What a resource […]
US researchers have acknowledged that poorer women have a greater chance of dying from breast cancer than those who are financially better off.
A study was conducted with 14,000 breast, prostate and colorectal patients — and clearly indicated that socioeconomic status affects a person’s chances of survival. Here’s a quote from a Washington Post article on […]
Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to 23 U.S. companies (and 2 foreign individuals) that were marketing products fraudulently claiming to prevent and cure cancer.
“The FDA also warns North American consumers against using or purchasing the products, which include tablets, teas, tonics, black salves, and creams, and are sold […]
The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, or His Royal Highness The Prince Charles as he’s known in Scotland, is going to officially open a research unit on Thursday designed to improve and develop treatments for breast cancer.
Prince Charles will be given a guided tour of the newest facility for an organization called Breakthrough — the […]
There’s serious karma going on with me and Australia right now. Yesterday I posted about the Autoglam bling.
Today, I learned about some research out of Cranberra that I have to share with you all today:
A study conducted at the Australian National University has found a fall in the incidence of breast cancer among women aged […]
One of the problems a young woman with breast cancer faces is the fact that so many drugs are specifically indicated for post-menopausal women.
But today it was announced that zoledronic acid (or a drug called Zometa) which is used to treat bone metastases and recently approved to treat osteoporosis proved to significantly reduce the risk […]
You probably heard about the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act, maybe even skimmed a recent news story about it. But maybe, like me, you didn’t quite understand what it was all about?
I mean, here’s what crowded my brain: Hasn’t this been around for a while? Haven’t they implemented this yet? Hasn’t it been years since […]
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