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New Treatment For Brca1 Brca2 Type Cancers
- Breast Cancer Risk Factors: Ethnicity, Race, Genes, and Family History
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About 12% of women will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. Each year in the United States, about 207,000 women are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and about 54,000 women are diagnosed with pre-invasive breast cancer. (Although breast cancer in men is rare, about 2,000 American men are diagnosed each year with invasive breast cancer.)
About 40,000 American women die from breast cancer each year. Breast cancer death rates have declined significantly since the...
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From Our Experts
BRCA1 and BRCA2: No Longer the Only Troublesome Genes Out There
By now, most of us are probably pretty familiar with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 (pronounce them “bracka 1 and bracka 2”) genes. Identified in... Read more »
BRCA1 and BRCA2: Testing for the Breast Cancer Gene?
A provocative essay in the New York Times by journalist Aliyah Baruchin has me thinking over, once again, a question that I occasionally... Read more »
BRCA1: Startling New Findings Point to Need for Wider Testing
If you’ve had breast cancer, you’ve no doubt heard about BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing, often offered as an option to women with a strong... Read more »
Myriad Genetics' new Breast Cancer Advertising: Effective or Harmful?
Imagine this TV ad. Pretty young mom and her small children, driving along a deserted road on a dark and rainy night. Suddenly, a tree... Read more »
Christina Applegate, Breasts and Female Sexuality
Is the ultimate statement by a woman that her life is more important than how she defines her sexuality. And in the case of Christina... Read more »
From Our Sources
More high-risk women opt for double mastectomy
More young, healthy women who have a familial or genetic predisposition to breast cancer are opting for a preventive double mastectomy, experts say.... Read more »
Why some women choose a preventive mastectomy
The number of young women who choose to have a double mastectomy in order to prevent breast cancer or a breast cancer recurrence is rising. Studies... Read more »
Breast Cancer Risk Factors: Ethnicity, Race, Genes, and Family...
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the tissues of the breast. There are two main types of breast cancer:Ductal carcinoma starts in the tubes... Read more »
Sex After Breast Cancer Treatment: Testosterone Cream Not Eff...
Many survivors of breast cancer report having decreased sexual desire and drive. There are often several possible causes of diminished sex drive in... Read more »
Breast MRI and the New American Cancer Society Guidelines for ...
My technician recently told me, just before sending me gliding through an MRI tube, that MRI scans were once an uncommon breast exam. He performed... Read more »
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