- Coping with Stress: Making Plans in Uncertain Times
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When you are dealing with cancer or another serious illness, whether as the patient or caregiver, your life will never be quite the same for any one of a number of reasons: you may have physical impairments caused by the illness, you may fear recurren ...
HerArticle - Dave Balch - 07/25/2010 - 14:09 - 0 comments
- Tanning Beds Get Heat
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Believe it or not, 1 in 5 of our readers will get skin cancer in their lifetime. That is an amazing statistic! Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer, with more instances of melanoma than breast, prostate, lung and colon cancer combined. Accord ...
HerArticle - Kellen Wilson - 06/17/2010 - 07:53 - 4 comments
- Breast cancer study finds biomarkers that predict future severity
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New research from the University of California at San Francisco may ultimately save many women with the earliest form of breast cancer from making the decision to have a preventive mastectomy or double mastectomy. The study, published in today’s J ...
HerArticle - Diane Porter - 04/29/2010 - 08:04 - 0 comments
- Breast Cancer Diagnosis, What Are Hormone Replacement Therapy Risks? - Dr. Heward (VIDEO)
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Dr. Heward shares hormone replacement therapy/HRT risks for women diagnosed with breast cancer. External Id: 17996504 Transcript: ...
Video - Dr. Christopher... - 10/14/2009 - 09:34 - 0 comments
- More Evidence that Coffee Prevents Cancer
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Earlier this year, research by Texas AgriLife scientists found that a compound in coffee, known as trigonelline, or trig, can stop cancer from developing. They found it could prevent colon cancer and post-menopausal symptoms in women. Now, nine stu ...
HerArticle - Joanna Karpasea... - 06/28/2010 - 08:54 - 0 comments
- Tips for Preventing Secondary Lymphedema
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Tips for Preventing Secondary Lymphedema by ]]> Editorial Staff and Contributors ]]> If you have had ]]> radiation ]]> treatments, surgical removal of some lymph nodes, or an infection or trauma to ...
Reference - EmpowHER - 07/28/2010 - 15:30 - 0 comments
- Testing For the "Breast Cancer Gene Mutation": Is It Right For You?
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I recently interview Genetic Counselor Sara Knapke, MS,CGC, of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Genetics Department, regarding hereditary cancers and the testing available. In the next series of articles, Sara clarifies the abundance of information ...
HerArticle - Kate Gonzalez - 07/14/2009 - 08:02 - 0 comments
- Personalized Medicine to Treat Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
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Metastatic colorectal cancer is the most serious form of colorectal cancer, which has spread to other organs in the body, including the liver. The death rate from this type of disease is extremely high and is often due to liver failure or other compl ...
HerArticle - Joanna Karpasea... - 06/12/2010 - 11:11 - 0 comments
- Gleevec: Treatment for Cancer
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Gleevec is a tablet treatment for people with stomach cancer, cancer of the small intestines and leukemia that is also being used in a trial of personalized medicine for patients with colorectal cancer. If you have any of these types of cancer and ...
HerArticle - Joanna Karpasea... - 06/13/2010 - 05:26 - 1 comment
- Aspirin and breast cancer: Daily use cuts recurrence, helps survival
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A 50 percent higher survival rate. That is an amazing number. We already know that taking aspirin daily – even a baby aspirin – helps prevent heart disease and stroke. Now, a study of more than 4,000 women with breast cancer shows that aspirin may ...
HerArticle - Diane Porter - 02/18/2010 - 06:33 - 1 comment