Walk into any crowded room these days and chances are you’ll be standing next to someone who has either been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has. With over 2.3 million women diagnosed last year, next to skin cancer, it’s the second most common killer of women.
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Entries from October 28th, 2008
The Pink Ribbon That Could Save Your Life
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments · General News
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Support Breast Cancer Awareness Month – Do Your Part to Help Women Worldwide
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments · General News
The month of October is not just marked by Halloween costumes and candy. For more than twenty years, the month has also been host to National Breast Cancer Awareness. It is a month for us to remember the strength of those we have lost and of those who have survived the disease. We wear pink [...]
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Mammograms May Increase Risk of Cancer – Consider Thermography As an Alternative
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments · General News
Breast cancer is second to lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths amongst women. In 2008, it is estimated that 182,460 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer with an estimated death toll being close to 40,480. It seems as if a good percentage of these deaths should not be occurring. Why? Because [...]
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Early Detection of Breast Cancer Means High Survival Rates
October 24th, 2008 · No Comments · General News
Breast cancer is probably one of the most emotional types of cancers for women, but it is not only women that can get breast cancer. Of course, most cases of breast cancer are from female patients. The trick to breast cancer is catching it early on and most women can catch it by finding a [...]
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Are You Familiar With the Different Breast Cancer Causes?
October 24th, 2008 · No Comments · General News
While breast cancer causes are unknown, there are a number of risk factors you want to be aware of. Take care of your life to prevent the risk factors you have control over and pay close attention to the factors you have no control over. Learn more about breast cancer here!
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Fighting Against Breast Cancer – Know Your Options
October 24th, 2008 · No Comments · General News
Breast cancer affects women of all ages but the threat of breast cancer increases as a woman gets older. It is uncommon in women under age 35. Most breast cancers occur in women over the age of 50, and the risk is mainly high for women over 60.
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How Can You Go About Getting the Proper Breast Cancer Diagnosis?
October 24th, 2008 · No Comments · General News
There is a lot that goes into making a breast cancer diagnosis. This is a very serious matter and doctors work hard to make sure they make the proper diagnosis. If the results do show you have breast cancer, the doctor will sit down with you and put together the proper treatment. Find [...]
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Major Factors of Breast Cancer
October 24th, 2008 · No Comments · General News
Breast Cancer is the second leading type of cancer – after Lung Cancer. It is the most common type of cancer among women. It develops in the breast cells of women (mostly) and men (rarely). Men’s chances of developing breast cancer are 100 times less than women, but when it occurs in men, the mortality [...]
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10 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer
October 24th, 2008 · No Comments · General News
There is a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer. There are ways to help prevent breast cancer that you may not be aware of. Read on to learn way to help prevention of breast cancer.
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Breast Cancer Prevention – Where “Awareness” is Not Enough
October 24th, 2008 · No Comments · General News
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, sadly, has become a time of increasing awareness not of the preventable causes of breast cancer, but of the breast cancer industry’s insatiable need to both raise money for research into a pharmaceutical cure, and to promote its primary means of “prevention”: early detection via x-ray mammography.
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