Tag: Cancer: Breast
Gene Database Offers Doctors Insights Into Breast, Ovarian CA
Database includes more than 6,200 BRCA variants
Genetic Breast Cancer Risk Can Be Mediated by Healthy Lifestyle
Key lifestyle factors include maintaining a healthy weight, not smoking, limiting alcohol, no HRT
Dietary Fat Intake in Adolescence May Affect Breast Density
Higher amounts of unhealthy fats tied to greater breast density
CAM Use May Affect Breast Cancer Patients’ Chemo Decisions
Findings among women prescribed chemo who took dietary supplements, had higher CAM index score
Use of Disease-Monitoring Tests Often Extreme in Breast Cancer
More than one-third of women with metastatic breast cancer are extreme users
Two Years of Tamoxifen Offers Long-Term Survival Benefit
Survival benefit for premenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive primary breast cancer
Adolescent Fruit Consumption May Impact Breast Cancer Risk
But second report found women who drink more alcohol over time might increase chances of disease
AUA: BRCA Mutations May Play Role in Prostate Cancer
Multiple studies suggest they might
Nipple-Sparing Preventive Mastectomies Deemed Safe
Preventive surgeries with nipple preservation don't appear to raise breast cancer risk in high-risk women
Anthracyclines May Not Trigger ‘Chemo Brain’
New research finds no link between the meds and survivors' cognitive function
