Diagnosis and Treatment
Scientists Cite Advances on Two Kinds of Cancer
Scientists Cite Advances on Two Kinds of Cancer CHICAGO — Using two opposite strategies, one focused and one broad, scientists say they have made progress in taming two of the ...
Breast Cancer Study Offers New Hope
Giving certain breast cancer patients estrogen-lowering drugs before surgery enhances their chances of being able to choose a breast-conserving lumpectomy instead of a full mastectomy, new research suggests. The observation ...
Cancer Survivor, Debra’s Blog
Cancer by nature is a pretty private, individual disease. I think I heard somewhere that over 35 different diseases that affect the breast in the same way are all put ...
What is a Transvaginal Ultrasound?
A transvaginal ultrasound is a sonogram performed through the vagina that allows for close-up views of the pelvic organs. The bladder, the reproductive organs, including the cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes ...
Cancer Costs Double in Less Than 20 Years
Over a period of nearly two decades, the medical costs of cancer care almost doubled in constant dollars, but remained proportional to other medical costs, researchers said. Over the same ...
17 Years Later, Stage 4 Survivor Is Savoring a Life Well Lived
Each year on a day in January — the 15th, to be precise — I go to a Web site and post a message to hundreds of women I’ve never ...
What is cancer?
Cancer is a term used for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to invade other tissues. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the ...
In Tests, Vitamin D Shrinks Breast Cancer Cells
Doctors have known that low levels of vitamin D are linked to certain kinds of cancers as well as to diabetes and asthma, but new research also shows that the ...
Study: Aspirin Cuts Risk of Death After Breast Cancer
Breast cancer survivors who take aspirin regularly may be less likely to die or have their cancer return, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday. The study of more than 4,000 nurses showed ...
How to Live Well Beyond Breast Cancer
Most books about breast cancer are focused on a woman’s immediate crisis, helping them learn more about the disease and make urgent treatment decisions. But what happens to women after ...
Core needle biopsy procedures may be reasonable alternative to surgical biopsy for breast cancer
Stereotactic- and ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy procedures were almost as accurate as surgical biopsy in women of average-risk suspected of having breast cancer; however, the core needle biopsies yielded lower ...
BLOG: The Struggle to Simply Let Go
I am a yoga teacher, a cycle instructor and a naturopathic doctor. I have been doing this for over twenty years. At fifty-six I am fit and strong. My body ...