Upcoming: ‘Up to Date’ to discuss genetics and breast cancer - Kansas City Star
Steve Kraske, The Kansas City Star ’s political correspondent, is host of “Up to Date” from 11 a.m. to noon weekdays on 89.3 FM, KCUR. Today: The show’s women’s health series continues with a look at genetics and breast cancer, as well as a …
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:59:00 GMT
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Family time is the antidote for woman fighting cancer again - Chippewa Herald
Cathy Jensen’s family makes a habit of spending lots of time in the walkout basement of the home she and her husband Dave share. The basement is set up with lots of indoor and outdoor space to eat, drink, watch TV and just hang out. And it’s set …
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:00:00 GMT
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Cancer drug dramatically shrinks prostate tumors, study finds - Chicago Tribune
An experimental cancer drug shrank prostate tumors dramatically and more than doubled survival in 70% to 80% of patients with aggressive cancers, British researchers reported Tuesday. Although the study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology …
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:40:00 GMT
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From cancer awareness to shoes for the kids - Inrich.com
The Women’s Cancer Advocacy Network (WCAN) and volunteers from Virginia, Maryland, and Nevada packed up a 16-foot truck and headed to Wise, Virginia, Thursday for the 3-day Remote Area Medical Clinic (RAM). The truck was filled with all the …
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:06:00 GMT
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Doctors give cancer patients more options to preserve fertility - Miami Herald
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jennifer Smith always knew she wanted to have a house full of children someday. But two months ago, a diagnosis of breast cancer threw that plan into serious jeopardy. Smith’s cancer was aggressive. She had to start chemotherapy …
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:55:00 GMT
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Granite Staters walk to outpace breast cancer - Nashua Telegraph
MILFORD – Tom Knapp and Luke Betelak made pink the color of the day at the Milford Oval on Saturday. Knapp, 50, and Betelak, 18, headed to the downtown area just after 7 a.m. to hang pink ribbons and signs and begin a 100-lap, 20-mile walk in …
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:33:00 GMT
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Bardmoor YMCA pioneers national health program for cancer survivors - St. Petersburg Times
When the Lance Armstrong Foundation wanted a partner to design and deliver exercise programs and well-being initiatives for cancer survivors, it looked to the YMCA of the USA. Specifically, it looked to the Bardmoor branch of the YMCA of the Suncoast …
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:25:00 GMT
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Biocon, Abraxis launch breast cancer drug Abraxane in India - Forbes
BANGALORE (Thomson Financial) - India’s Biocon Ltd. and Nasdaq-listed Abraxis BioScience Inc. said they have launched breast cancer drug treatment Abraxane in India. Breast cancer is the second most common cause of death among women diagnosed with …
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:12:00 GMT
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Olympic Gold Medalist Named 2008 Honorary Breast Cancer Survivor By … - Biloxi Sun Herald
Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R), the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists committed to ending breast cancer forever, has named Deena Deardurff Schmidt as San Diego’s 2008 Honorary Breast Cancer Survivor. Schmidt …
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:01:00 GMT
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UPDATE: Grieving woman slain on porch - Morning Journal
Police say 31-year-old Ebony Jefferson was shot to death as she sat with family members on a porch grieving for her mother, who died Sunday of complications from breast cancer. Now, a funeral for both Ebony and 55-year-old Lorena Jefferson will be …
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:14:00 GMT
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Breast self-exams do not cut breast cancer deaths - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Regular breast self-examination does not reduce death from breast cancer and may actually have a harmful effect by increasing the number of biopsies performed for benign disease, suggests an analysis of data from two large …
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:40:00 GMT
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New option for breast-cancer screening at ACMC - Albia Newspapers
Women can now get more accurate and faster breast cancer tests and treatment at Ashley County Medical Center with the introduction of stereotactic breast biopsy services. Dr. Alan K. Wilson, general surgeon at Ashley County Medical Center, recommends …
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:11:00 GMT
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Are breast self-exams worth it? - Salon
You know those questions from folks in white coats — “How often do you floss?” “How much exercise do you get?” “How often do you brush your dog’s teeth?” — that always seem to make you feel guilty for not doing enough, no matter what your answer is …
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:03:00 GMT
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Breast cancer has struck within my family, and when it did I was worried not only for my relative (she’s fine now, thank goodness), but also for myself.

After her diagnosis, when I asked my doctor if I should do anything beyond the norm to safeguard my health, the doctor’s answer was, “Many more women who have no known relatives with breast cancer get the disease than do those who have a family history.”

This was her way of reassuring me, and I’ve continued to live healthy by getting the usual screenings and not worrying constantly that I will be diagnosed. Every year I schedule my mammogram, and every so often I do a self exam, and I tell other women to do the same. These are the best cancer-fighting aids we have: awareness, action, and advocacy.

To get a quick snapshot of your own risk, based on your family history, Therese M. Bevers, M.D., medical director of the Cancer Prevention Center at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, suggests you ask yourself the four following questions:

1. Do you have at least two blood relatives who were diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause?

2. Do you have a blood relative who was diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause and a blood relative who developed ovarian cancer at any age?

3. If you have a family history of breast cancer, were any of the diagnosed relatives male?

4. Is your family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent?

If you answered yes to 1, 2 or 3, or to 4 along with any other question, your family history of breast cancer implies a genetic predisposition, says Dr. Bevers.

Talk with your doctor about whether you should consider seeing a genetic counselor, who can give you a much more complete assessment of your risk. (You can also find a genetic counselor yourself at the National Society of Genetic Counselors.

If you learn that you are indeed at high risk, organizations like FORCE, Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, can provide additional information and support.

One more very important point: The American Cancer Society now recommends that certain women who have a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer get a breast MRI along with their mammogram; and depending on the details of your family history, you may need to start screening as early as age 30 or sooner.

The test is able to spot changes that the X-ray might miss (though be warned that means a higher chance of an unnecessary biopsy). Who exactly should consider it? Women who have tested positive for a BRCA mutation; those who have a first-degree relative with a BRCA mutation; women who had radiation to the chest between the ages of 10 and 30 and those whose lifetime risk is 20 percent or higher.

If you said no to all of the questions listed above, or yes only to number 4, you are likely at average ris, which is probably lower than you think. A woman who has no family history has just a one in 13 chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime, according to large study published in The Lancet.

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Author Bio: Lucy Danziger is the editor-in-chief of SELF magazine. In 1991, SELF founded the Pink Ribbon to raise awareness and funding for breast cancer research. Each October, SELF produces a Breast Cancer Handbook feature. The 2005 handbook won a National Magazine Award for Personal Service. Danziger lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

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Breast cancer has struck within my family, and when it did I was worried not only for my relative (she’s fine now, thank goodness), but also for myself.

After her diagnosis, when I asked my doctor if I should do anything beyond the norm to safeguard my health, the doctor’s answer was, “Many more women who have no known relatives with breast cancer get the disease than do those who have a family history.”

This was her way of reassuring me, and I’ve continued to live healthy by getting the usual screenings and not worrying constantly that I will be diagnosed. Every year I schedule my mammogram, and every so often I do a self exam, and I tell other women to do the same. These are the best cancer-fighting aids we have: awareness, action, and advocacy.

To get a quick snapshot of your own risk, based on your family history, Therese M. Bevers, M.D., medical director of the Cancer Prevention Center at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, suggests you ask yourself the four following questions:

1. Do you have at least two blood relatives who were diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause?

2. Do you have a blood relative who was diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause and a blood relative who developed ovarian cancer at any age?

3. If you have a family history of breast cancer, were any of the diagnosed relatives male?

4. Is your family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent?

If you answered yes to 1, 2 or 3, or to 4 along with any other question, your family history of breast cancer implies a genetic predisposition, says Dr. Bevers.

Talk with your doctor about whether you should consider seeing a genetic counselor, who can give you a much more complete assessment of your risk. (You can also find a genetic counselor yourself at the National Society of Genetic Counselors.

If you learn that you are indeed at high risk, organizations like FORCE, Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, can provide additional information and support.

One more very important point: The American Cancer Society now recommends that certain women who have a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer get a breast MRI along with their mammogram; and depending on the details of your family history, you may need to start screening as early as age 30 or sooner.

The test is able to spot changes that the X-ray might miss (though be warned that means a higher chance of an unnecessary biopsy). Who exactly should consider it? Women who have tested positive for a BRCA mutation; those who have a first-degree relative with a BRCA mutation; women who had radiation to the chest between the ages of 10 and 30 and those whose lifetime risk is 20 percent or higher.

If you said no to all of the questions listed above, or yes only to number 4, you are likely at average ris, which is probably lower than you think. A woman who has no family history has just a one in 13 chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime, according to large study published in The Lancet.

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Author Bio: Lucy Danziger is the editor-in-chief of SELF magazine. In 1991, SELF founded the Pink Ribbon to raise awareness and funding for breast cancer research. Each October, SELF produces a Breast Cancer Handbook feature. The 2005 handbook won a National Magazine Award for Personal Service. Danziger lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

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Breast cancer has struck within my family, and when it did I was worried not only for my relative (she’s fine now, thank goodness), but also for myself.

After her diagnosis, when I asked my doctor if I should do anything beyond the norm to safeguard my health, the doctor’s answer was, “Many more women who have no known relatives with breast cancer get the disease than do those who have a family history.”

This was her way of reassuring me, and I’ve continued to live healthy by getting the usual screenings and not worrying constantly that I will be diagnosed. Every year I schedule my mammogram, and every so often I do a self exam, and I tell other women to do the same. These are the best cancer-fighting aids we have: awareness, action, and advocacy.

To get a quick snapshot of your own risk, based on your family history, Therese M. Bevers, M.D., medical director of the Cancer Prevention Center at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, suggests you ask yourself the four following questions:

1. Do you have at least two blood relatives who were diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause?

2. Do you have a blood relative who was diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause and a blood relative who developed ovarian cancer at any age?

3. If you have a family history of breast cancer, were any of the diagnosed relatives male?

4. Is your family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent?

If you answered yes to 1, 2 or 3, or to 4 along with any other question, your family history of breast cancer implies a genetic predisposition, says Dr. Bevers.

Talk with your doctor about whether you should consider seeing a genetic counselor, who can give you a much more complete assessment of your risk. (You can also find a genetic counselor yourself at the National Society of Genetic Counselors.

If you learn that you are indeed at high risk, organizations like FORCE, Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, can provide additional information and support.

One more very important point: The American Cancer Society now recommends that certain women who have a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer get a breast MRI along with their mammogram; and depending on the details of your family history, you may need to start screening as early as age 30 or sooner.

The test is able to spot changes that the X-ray might miss (though be warned that means a higher chance of an unnecessary biopsy). Who exactly should consider it? Women who have tested positive for a BRCA mutation; those who have a first-degree relative with a BRCA mutation; women who had radiation to the chest between the ages of 10 and 30 and those whose lifetime risk is 20 percent or higher.

If you said no to all of the questions listed above, or yes only to number 4, you are likely at average ris, which is probably lower than you think. A woman who has no family history has just a one in 13 chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime, according to large study published in The Lancet.

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Author Bio: Lucy Danziger is the editor-in-chief of SELF magazine. In 1991, SELF founded the Pink Ribbon to raise awareness and funding for breast cancer research. Each October, SELF produces a Breast Cancer Handbook feature. The 2005 handbook won a National Magazine Award for Personal Service. Danziger lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

Tags: cancer, support, clinical trials, research news, diagnosis

Nutrition Action Healthletter - Trans & breast cancer
June 1, 2008 — Is trans fat bad for the breast as well as the heart? French researchers compared blood samples taken in the mid-1990s from 363 women who were…
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT
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Treating rare breast cancer with radiation therapy may lower … - Genetic Engineering News
Patients with a rare type of breast cancer may benefit from receiving radiation therapy in addition to surgery to prevent recurrence, according to a study in the July issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics , the …
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:27:00 GMT
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Nutrition Action Healthletter - Folate & breast cancer
May 1, 2008 — Women who consume more folate, a B vitamin, may have a higher risk of breast cancer. Researchers analyzed blood samples taken from more than 1,700…
Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT
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Newsweek - Breast and Ovarian Cancer: New Hopes, Longer Life
April 24, 2006 — An estimated 213,000 new cases of breast cancer and 20,000 new cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed in the United States in 2006. Together, the…
Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:00:00 GMT
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Journal of Nuclear Medicine, The - Clinical MI: Breast Cancer
March 1, 2008 — MOLECULAR IMAGING UPDATE Mammographic screening for breast cancer has resulted in a documented reduction in mortality, but sensitivity remains a…
Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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Breast cancer has struck within my family, and when it did I was worried not only for my relative (she’s fine now, thank goodness), but also for myself.

After her diagnosis, when I asked my doctor if I should do anything beyond the norm to safeguard my health, the doctor’s answer was, “Many more women who have no known relatives with breast cancer get the disease than do those who have a family history.”

This was her way of reassuring me, and I’ve continued to live healthy by getting the usual screenings and not worrying constantly that I will be diagnosed. Every year I schedule my mammogram, and every so often I do a self exam, and I tell other women to do the same. These are the best cancer-fighting aids we have: awareness, action, and advocacy.

To get a quick snapshot of your own risk, based on your family history, Therese M. Bevers, M.D., medical director of the Cancer Prevention Center at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, suggests you ask yourself the four following questions:

1. Do you have at least two blood relatives who were diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause?

2. Do you have a blood relative who was diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause and a blood relative who developed ovarian cancer at any age?

3. If you have a family history of breast cancer, were any of the diagnosed relatives male?

4. Is your family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent?

If you answered yes to 1, 2 or 3, or to 4 along with any other question, your family history of breast cancer implies a genetic predisposition, says Dr. Bevers.

Talk with your doctor about whether you should consider seeing a genetic counselor, who can give you a much more complete assessment of your risk. (You can also find a genetic counselor yourself at the National Society of Genetic Counselors.

If you learn that you are indeed at high risk, organizations like FORCE, Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, can provide additional information and support.

One more very important point: The American Cancer Society now recommends that certain women who have a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer get a breast MRI along with their mammogram; and depending on the details of your family history, you may need to start screening as early as age 30 or sooner.

The test is able to spot changes that the X-ray might miss (though be warned that means a higher chance of an unnecessary biopsy). Who exactly should consider it? Women who have tested positive for a BRCA mutation; those who have a first-degree relative with a BRCA mutation; women who had radiation to the chest between the ages of 10 and 30 and those whose lifetime risk is 20 percent or higher.

If you said no to all of the questions listed above, or yes only to number 4, you are likely at average ris, which is probably lower than you think. A woman who has no family history has just a one in 13 chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime, according to large study published in The Lancet.

****

Author Bio: Lucy Danziger is the editor-in-chief of SELF magazine. In 1991, SELF founded the Pink Ribbon to raise awareness and funding for breast cancer research. Each October, SELF produces a Breast Cancer Handbook feature. The 2005 handbook won a National Magazine Award for Personal Service. Danziger lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

Tags: diagnosis, breast self exam, breast, symptom,

Louisville Pink Ribbon Step Stool, Three Steps, 225 Pound Rating #L-4212-03 (Tools & Hardware)
By Louisville Ladder

Buy new: $40.64

First tagged “breast cancer” by Power Tools Maniac
Customer tags: breast cancer awareness(2), pink, step stool, stool, 3 steps, ladder, breast cancer

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Louisville Pink Ribbon Step Stool, Two Steps, 225 Pound Rating #L-4212-02 (Tools & Hardware)
By Louisville Ladder

Buy new: $37.10

First tagged “breast cancer” by Power Tools Maniac
Customer tags: multipurpose, pink, stepstool, stool, ladder, breast cancer

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