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Breast Cancer

Improved treatment and early detection through routine mammography in women over 40 years of age and in younger women with family history of breast cancer have improved the survival rate of breast cancer patients by 2% per year over the last ten years. In addition to getting regular mammograms, any changes in the breast should be evaluated by a... Read more Chevron

posted 12/29/2010, comments (0)|

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Dorian Martin

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Why Middle-Age Women Should Regularly Schedule Their Mammograms

“Many U.S. women do not get recommended mammograms.” That Reuters headling and the story definitely caught my attention. “Half of the U.S. women 40 and older do not get annual mammograms to screen for breast cancer, and nearly 40 percent of women 50 and older do not get the recommended biannual screenings, even though they have... Read more Chevron

posted 12/14/2010, comments (0)|

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New Study Adds to Concerns About Linkage Between Hormone Therapy, Breast Cancer

A new federal study has found that women who take estrogen and progestin after menopause increase their chances of getting breast cancer and also face a small increased risk of dying from this disease. The Women’s Health Initiative study, which involved 16,000 women who were followed for 11 years, found “that women who took the... Read more Chevron

posted 10/25/2010, comments (0)|

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Haralee

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The Power of the Brain

Susan Love's Army of Women, http://www.armyofwomen.orghas posted a Call to Action for women in the San Francisco, Stanford University area to participate in a new study. This study looks at the brain and cognitive function of breast cancer survivors and non survivors. I am fascinated with the brain, and any studies concerning the brain... Read more Chevron

posted 04/20/2009, comments (0)|

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Sandy Greenquist

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Breast Cancer and Hormone Therapy

The facts and the fiction...there are a lot of both. I, for one, am ready for the media to stop replaying various takes on the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) and alarming women with often erroneous, frequently skewed, stories based on that flawed study. The WHI released in 2002 investigated mostly older women (average age 64) who started... Read more Chevron

posted 12/28/2008, comments (0)|

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