Tobacco companies are still being sued. Tobacco companies have hidden the addictive properties of their products for years. They continue to market to teenagers, and specifically target women by calling their cigarettes 'slims' and using slogans like 'it's a woman thing' while showing a gorgeous, slim, successful woman smiling at the camera and puffing away on her cigarette.

What would you do if you were told that your cancer is inoperable? I joke with my husband that, if anything ever happened to me, just shoot me. Of course, I know he wouldn't; but, I'm not sure what I would do if I heard the word "inoperable." In this day and age of advanced surgical technology, when we can create bionic body parts, one would think we could perform medical miracles.

Hi Michelle- Over the summer I had a lumpectomy due to estrogen-receptive Breast Cancer and I'm wondering if you might know an excellent doctor who has experience treating women with Tamoxifin substitutes that are natural such as Indole 3 Carbinol? We have been given contradictory advice by nutritionists, chiropractors, physicians and oncologists about how to successfully lower my estrogen. Warmly, Barbara in Thousand Oaks, CA

By Amanda Gardner
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- When 69-year-old Carl Irwin arrived at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center for treatment of lymphoma, he was handed a blank notebook and asked to write about how his cancer had changed him and how he felt about those changes.

By Steve Reinberg
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- When a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel meets Thursday to weigh whether blood-boosting drugs are safe to use in cancer patients suffering from anemia, the question will not be an easy one to answer.

By Kathleen Doheny
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have identified a gene they say can promote aggressive breast cancer by acting as a kind of "crime boss," capable of changing the behavior of more than 1,000 genes within tumor cells.

By Alan Mozes
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) -- New research offers early evidence that hormones produced by the heart to control both blood pressure and volume could be harnessed to treat -- and possibly cure -- a wide range of cancers.

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EmpowHer's HealthDay News -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:

Hematologic Neoplasms

If you are 18 or older with acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia in blast phase, or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small cell lymphocytic lymphoma, you may be eligible to participate in this study.

By Amanda Gardner
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Good news continues to come forth from the cancer front: U.S. death rates from the disease have declined by 18.4 percent among men and by 10.5 percent among women since mortality rates first started going down in the early 1990s.

In 2008, an estimated 1,437,180 new cancers will be diagnosed, and 565,650 people will die of the disease, according to a report released Wednesday from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Death rates were at their highest for men in 1990, and for women in 1991.