Archive for the 'Breast Cancer Diagnosis' Category

Why Women Don't Get Mammograms

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Sidestepping screening: What factors make women avoid annual mammography?

Breast cancer has the highest incidence and mortality rates worldwide, and it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths for women in the United States. While mammography is far from perfect, it remains the best screening tool available for the early diagnosis of breast cancer.

But studies […]

Breast Cancer: Telling Your Kids About It

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

One of the hardest parts about being diagnosed with breast cancer is how to tell your children about it. Generally speaking, the best thing to do is to be honest with them. If they don’t hear it from you now, they’re bound to find out some other way - they’ll overhear a conversation when you […]

Increasing Your Chance Of Survival By Recognizing Breast Cancer Symptoms

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

The statistics are staggering one in eight women in the United States has either had or will have breast cancer during her lifetime. The National Breast Cancer Foundation predicts that over two-hundred thousand women and nearly two-thousand men will be diagnosed this year alone. And while it continues its reign as the second leading cause […]

Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer

Monday, May 24th, 2010

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Information on Breast Cancer Symptoms and Diagnosis

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

The main cause of the death among women is only cancer. The exact cause of the cancer is yet unknown. Usually it is diagnosed by the formation of lumps but it is not necessary that every lump may be cancerous only. Even the symptoms of the cancer are also not very clear. Usually there are […]

Breast Cancer Chemotherapy and the Endocrine System

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Cancer chemotherapy affects the function of the ovaries in pre-menopause, specifically its ability to produce estrogen and progesterone. The ovaries secrete these hormones in a cyclic manner in response to trigger hormones produced by the pituitary gland. During the later part of a woman’s reproductive life, during her late 40s or early 50s, the ovaries […]

What Are the Symptoms and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer?

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Breast cancer does not show any symptoms in the initial stages. Formation of lumps and cysts in the breasts are quite common and most of them are benign in nature. But these lumps, cysts or fibroids can turn cancerous depending on the individual. One should go for various screening tests of breast cancer if certain […]

Blood Test For Breast Cancer

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Breast Cancer: Some StatisticsEvery year, over 1.1 million women worldwide receive the unwelcome diagnosis of breast cancer, a figure which has virtually doubled since 1975 and appears to be likely to increase in the foreseeable future. In the Unites States, breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer (preceded only by skin cancer), […]

Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Breast cancer is a bad, sometimes frightening diagnosis at any time but a triple negative breast cancer diagnosis is particularly disturbing. Generally speaking, this cancer is defined in terms of a receptor which reveals specific genes. The three receptors are estrogen, progesterone and Her2.
The type of receptor determines the type of medicine prescribed for the […]

Metastatic Breast Cancer

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Secondary breast cancer, also called metastatic breast cancer, occurs when the disease spreads from the breast to elsewhere in the body. Some patients will have their first diagnosis of breast cancer only to discover that it has spread and is in fact metastatic breast cancer. Many women who are diagnosed with secondary cancer have had […]

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