The only gadget I now marvel at is the breast pump (although it really is an extraordinary thing).
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The dense-breast debate comes at a time when the value of breast-cancer screening in general is being questioned.
She was undergoing chemotherapy at the time for breast cancer and had just buzzed off her hair in anticipation of losing it all.
Prior to definitive surgery, you should meet with a medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, geneticist (if you are at risk for the breast cancer gene), and reconstructive surgeon.
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"That is absolutely the case, " agrees Dr. Ann Partridge, clinical director of the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who also does research on improving health care communication.
"Those who diagnose breast cancer and those who do mastectomy are separate from the plastic surgeons who do the reconstruction, " explains Dr. Frank DellaCroce, a surgeon at the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery in New Orleans, Louisiana, the place where Anderson's breast reconstruction was performed.
The findings are being presented this week at the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and were published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.
Awareness is also the main message for Dr. Anne Wallace, professor of surgery and director of the Moores Breast Cancer Program at the University of California-San Diego.
The team of scientists in the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research have already shown this is possible in the lab.
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The drug aims at the 25% of breast cancer patients whose tumors express high levels of a protein called HER2.
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Since you are probably not going to be eating a steak or chicken breast at the gym, a protein drink or supplement may be beneficial immediately before, during or after workouts, but is not necessary.
Many teaching in medical schools today were raised in the better-living-though-chemistry age, when infant formula was thought to trump the attributes of breast milk. (Formula was certainly an improvement over the non-pasteurized cow's milk that killed many infants at the turn of the 20th century, when breast-feeding was not in vogue).
The Primrose Breast Care Centre at Derriford is one of the first in the country to install the 3D tomosynthesis upgrade to one of its mammomat X-ray machines.
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Guidance on the use of taxanes for treating breast cancer is expected at the end of June.
Kitajima has won the 100- and 200-meter breast-stroke races at the past two Olympics, and remains best in the world.
"These are among the most significant findings in drugs for metastatic cancer in the past five years, " said Eric Winer, director of the breast oncology center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, who wasn't directly involved in the trials.
Doctors have told her she is at very high risk of getting breast cancer at some point in the future, so she is having them removed to protect her from the disease.
Results in lowering the risk of breast cancer were presented at a press briefing at the American Society for Clinical Oncology.
Experts at Breast Cancer Care, which has been the leading provider of breast cancer information and support across the UK for 30 years, are alarmed by the findings.
Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of the 2004 campaign and underwent surgery and chemotherapy.
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The always incisive David Gorski, an oncologist, takes a detailed look at the data for Avastin in breast cancer.
No doubt this puts the funds in the Breast Cancer Fund, but it is at the expense of public health and good science.
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In a statement, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust said work to improve the breast unit at Furness General Hospital would be starting shortly.
Professor Trevor Powles, head of the breast unit at London's Royal Marsden Hospital, described the results as encouraging and suggested younger women should be screened for cancer.
Professor Ian Smith, head of the Breast Unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital and one of the competition's judging panel, said art could be a powerful tool to help women like Catalina and Nancy come to terms with their cancer.
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To take one of many examples, a group of researchers at the American Cancer Society looked at 533, 715 women with breast cancer, and asked: When those women were first diagnosed with breast cancer, were they diagnosed with early-stage or late-stage disease?
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But having a family history of breast or ovarian cancer can significantly increase the risk of developing breast cancer and at a younger age, although most women with a relative with breast cancer are not at a substantially increased risk themselves.
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