Breast cancer is said to be one of the biggest killers of women around the world today. Statistics from the University of Maryland Medical Center explain that every year in the United States, about 185,000 women are diagnosed with some form of breast cancer. Along with these statistics, about 40,000 women die per year because [...]
You have read the alarming statistics. Every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer. Old school methods like surgery, hormone treatments, radiation, and chemotherapy cause women great suffering without treating breast cancer. Women suffer through physical pain, financial devastation, degrading surgery, poor health, loss, depression, and ultimately poor results.
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Are you aware of steps you can take to help prevent breast cancer? Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer in women around the world and the leading cause of cancer death. Breast cancer is the most common among white women, although women of all races and even men are diagnosed with [...]
When you have been diagnosed with breast cancer, you wonder what treatment options are available and how they work. First of all, there are many different factors that play a role so that treatment varies from person to person. What stage does the tumor have, the persons age and menopausal status are just a few [...]
While not commonly asked, one of the first questions a potential breast augmentation should ask is…does the breast implant interfere with being able to detect breast cancer? Since breast cancer in the United States affects one in 11 women during their lifetime, this is a fairly important question. As breast augmentation procedures continue to be [...]
Doctors are not the miracle workers we hold them up to be. They are absolutely wonderful in the fact they can fix broken limbs, operate when it is necessary. I had surgery with my breast cancer, then I went through chemo, then radiation. If I knew then what I know now, I would still have [...]
Breast cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases among women. It plays second fiddle only to lung cancer as the top killer of women in the United States and the rest of the world. And since the 1970s, recorded cases of the disease have continuously increased at an alarming rate. Breast cancer can also [...]
It seems that there are so many charitable causes that you cannot begin to give to all of them. My husband and I give to our church and the charities that it sponsors. That is the bulk of our cash donations. We also give to the food shelf and donate clothing and house hold items [...]
There is a lot of false believes and misinformation about how breast cancer develops. Especially among young women concerns are big. There are some strange rumors for example that antiperspirants or even tooth paste can cause breast cancer.
Another common believe is that shaving or waxing the armpits can possibly lead to breast cancer. There is [...]
Where the disease has not metastasized, the five-year survival rate for women suffering from breast cancer is about 86%. That percentage means that 86% of women who develop breast cancer live for at least five years after diagnosis. The good news is that depending on the stage it is discovered, the survival rate can be [...]
