Breast Cancer

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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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 [...]

Herbal Medicine
Herbalists have long recommended tropical periwinkle to treat breast cancer and other malignancies. Indeed, a periwinkle alkaloid is used to make vincristine, a very potent chemotherapy agent. Oncologists stress, however, that this drug should be used only under careful medical supervision rather than to resort to herbal periwinkle extracts, which can be highly toxic.
Meditation, [...]

Surgery Treatment varies according to the type and stage of cancer, but surgery remains the first choice for most tumors. The majority of operations now are less disfiguring than the radical mastectomy that was standard until the 1970s. Operations for breast cancer are Extended radical mastectomy involves removal of the breast, underarm lymph nodes, and [...]

If you or someone you know is suffering from breast cancer there are some steps you can take to cope with this horrible disease. You are not alone so read a compilation of things you can do.
Statistics show that over 200,000 American women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, but the good news is: [...]