- Paget’s Disease of the Nipple – a Rare Breast Cancer
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When people think about breast cancer, they usually think of a tumor inside the breast. Another very rare type of breast cancer, called Paget’s disease of the nipple, develops in or around the nipple instead of deep inside the breast. What is ...
HerArticle - Denise DeWitt - 08/24/2010 - 15:42 - 0 comments
- Study Confirms Breast Cancer Risk with Hormone Replacement Therapy
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Prior to 2002, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was routinely given by doctors to millions of women across America who was going about their daily lives feeling out of sorts. One woman, Paula, recalls when she began taking a combination of estro ...
HerArticle - Lynette Summerill - 11/02/2010 - 22:06 - 1 comment
- lumps in the breast
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hie... m shruti frm india... m 21 years old n i wanted to ask u is it nessery that if a gal has lumps in her brest it has to b cancer?... well i do hav lumps ... i jus wanna knw is it cancer?? Esteemable: ...
Ask - Anonymous - 11/02/2010 - 19:07 - 2 comments
- MR Spectroscopy Increases Breast Cancer Detection Accuracy
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MR Spectroscopy Increases Breast Cancer Detection Accuracy by ]]> Krisha McCoy, MS ]]> ]]> Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ]]> can detect ]]> breast cancers ...
Reference - EmpowHER - 04/03/2010 - 17:24 - 0 comments
- MRI Biospy for 22 year old
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My daughter has been diagnosed with dense breast. She went in 3 months ago for a biopsy on a cyst. It can back normal. Went for a check up last week and the radiologist wanted to do a mri on her breast because they were so dense. Got a call and sa ...
Ask - debi - 11/02/2010 - 21:17 - 10 comments
- Ovarian Cancer Causes, Symptoms, Risks
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Cancer of the ovaries is the ninth most common cancer in women. Approximately half of all women diagnosed with ovarian cancer are age 60 or older. About one out of every 71 women will get invasive ovarian cancer. The ovaries are glands that are ...
HerArticle - Denise DeWitt - 11/02/2010 - 21:39 - 2 comments
- Green Tea: Nature's Anti-Cancer Drug?
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A molecule within our bodies called an aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is responsible for the way our cells behave. Cigarette smoking and dioxins in the environment can cause these receptor’s to go awry and lead to the formation of cancer cells. ...
HerArticle - Joanna Karpasea... - 11/02/2010 - 21:59 - 17 comments
- Mammogram ruling backlash: Shock, anger, and vows to ignore the new guidelines
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I expected the stories, told by breast-cancer survivors whose tumors were found by mammograms in their 40s or even their 30s. Whenever a major health recommendation is released, we tend to focus on the human stories, especially those whose lives were ...
HerArticle - Diane Porter - 11/02/2010 - 21:03 - 8 comments
- Radiation Free Mammograms
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Researchers have previously found that mammograms have detected harmless tumors, leading to unnecessary invasive treatments and that 15% of more serious cancer is ‘missed’. Some women can also find having a mammogram uncomfortable because the tech ...
HerArticle - Joanna Karpasea... - 11/02/2010 - 20:20 - 1 comment
- Curing Cancer With Laser Treatment
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Scientists have discovered a way to kill kidney tumors – by zapping them with lasers! Researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the Wake Forest University Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Rice University and V ...
HerArticle - Joanna Karpasea... - 08/01/2010 - 11:26 - 0 comments