Breast Cancer News
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Managing Breast Cancer Fears
The fear of breast cancer is unlike any other --- psychologists and other experts agree on that. The fear can take many different forms, depending upon where you are in the breast cancer experience. Understand that many of your fears are shared by others. While fears...
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Researchers Have Discovered How To Turn Cancer Cells BACK Into Normal Cells!
So far they’ve had promising results in the lab on aggressive types of breast, lung, and bladder cancer cells. Incredibly, this discovery may make treatment staples like chemotherapy a thing of the past! Researchers also think this may make it easier to diagnose tumor...
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Bras and Breast Cancer
This article discusses research linking bras and breast cancer. Source: How Bras Cause Lymph Stasis and Breast Cancer - Google Docs
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This article discusses ways that bras can affect breast cancer. Source: How Bras Cause Lymph Stasis and Breast Cancer - Google Docs
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Higher Sensitivity With 1-View Digital Breast Tomosynthesis for Breast Cancer Detection
Just Nips haven’t just made a statement in the fashion industry. The faux nipples have also been widely sought after by mastectomy patients who’ve lost nipples to breast cancer and want an inexpensive approach to nipple prostheses that can help make them feel more...
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Breast Cancer Survivors Are Going Wild Over These Bold Fake Nipples
Just Nips haven’t just made a statement in the fashion industry. The faux nipples have also been widely sought after by mastectomy patients who’ve lost nipples to breast cancer and want an inexpensive approach to nipple prostheses that can help make them feel more...
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Hormone-Disrupting Weed Killer Taints Tap Water for Millions in Corn Belt
Seasonal spikes of atrazine -- a weed killer that can disrupt hormones and harm developing fetuses -- contaminate drinking water in corn-growing areas of the Midwest and beyond, according to an analysis of federal records by the Environmental Working Group. Source:...
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BREAKING: FDA Panel Approves “Living Drug” That Uses Patient’s Own Immune System To Fight Cancer
NPR is calling scientists’ attempts at using the body’s own immune system to fight cancer “one of the most important developments in cancer research in decades.” Source: BREAKING: FDA Panel Approves “Living Drug” That Uses Patient’s Own Immune System To Fight Cancer |...
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Cancer and obesity: Clogged immune cells help explain link
In people with obesity, the NK cells' cellular machinery becomes clogged up with fat. Although the NK cells can still find and bind to tumor cells, they can no longer destroy them. Source: Cancer and obesity: Clogged immune cells help explain...
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Breast cancer screening: How does it truly impact survival?
The investigators found that the women who had joined an organized breast cancer screening program had a 60 percent lower risk of death within 10 years following breast cancer diagnosis. They also had a 47 percent lower risk of death within 20 years after breast...
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Diet Kicked Her Terminal Breast Cancer Into Remission; Now Harvard Wants To Study Her
“It isn’t really about eating healthy. It’s about eating specific foods that fight disease,” said Bero. The literature and research on the effectiveness of using anti-angiogenesis foods to get the same results as drugs is sparse. But Bero dove right in --- and ended...
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Who Determines What ‘Value’ Looks Like in Value-Based Cancer Care?
A value-based approach to the establishment of quality measures must integrate a wide range of social, clinical, and functional factors that patients associate with value. For instance, what is perceived as a quality measure from a patient's perspective can include...
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Fracking Chemicals Found To Cause Alarming Changes in Breast Tissue
Laura Vandenberg, co-author of the study, said that because breast lesions were found at every concentration given, this could mean that the mammary glands are receiving conflicting input about where in development they are. All 23 chemicals are recognized endocrine...
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New virus could help destroy cancer
Virotherapy is a treatment that uses biotechnology to transform certain viruses into anti-disease agents. These viruses include oncolytic viruses, which infect and destroy cancer cells.
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Study shows dogs can accurately sniff out cancer in blood
BioScentDx plans to use canine scent detection to develop a non-invasive way of screening for cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Source: Study shows dogs can accurately sniff out cancer in blood - Nexus...
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