July 30, 2010
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Breast Cancer
General Information on Breast Cancer Breast cancer has been one of the leading health concerns for women. For over 3,600 years the cancer has affected the lives of women in immeasurable ways. According to the Edwin Smith papyrus, awareness of breast cancer has been well established since 1600 BC in Egypt, thus making it the [...]
July 20, 2010
Posted by: Elizabeth Aves : Category:
Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers to strike women. For certain amidst women it’s the one that has proven to be the deadliest. Thousands of individuals per year will discover their lives touched by this disease – whether they themselves acquire it or somebody close to them will have it. Breast cancer [...]
May 09, 2010
Posted by: JennyHeart : Category:
Breast Cancer,
Cancer Survival
One of the steps in an early diagnosis of breast cancer is self-examination. The techniques used to find small abnormalities in the breast are making a great difference for many women. Although medications have been refined there are still debilitating side effects, so early detection in most cases limits their use and greatly improves the [...]
January 20, 2009
Posted by: JamesS. : Category:
Breast Cancer
One of the most prominent cases of cancer in women, which we hear today, is breast cancer. Cases of breast cancer have increased at an alarming rate and therefore, it is very important that we know the exact signs and symptoms of breast cancer. Women are the worst victims of this breast cancer, but men [...]
January 20, 2009
Posted by: JamesS. : Category:
Breast Cancer,
Cancer Survival
A mammogram is one of the safest ways that is used to check if there is any problem with the breast of a woman. It is actually an x-ray of the breasts, as it involves in using a special and very low dose x-ray machine taking pictures of both breasts. Effective Method of Preventing Cancer [...]
January 20, 2009
Posted by: JamesS. : Category:
Breast Cancer
An “Early Stage” breast cancer is sometimes referred as Stage 1 breast cancer. In such cases, the affected region is less than 2–2.5 centimetres in diameter. However, cancer does not spread inside the tissue of the breast. In fact, among all the women detected for breast cancer in the U.S, 63% of them suffer from [...]
December 10, 2008
Posted by: TrevorPrice : Category:
Breast Cancer
In the U.S., over 90 percent of breast cancer diagnoses happen during the early breast cancer stages. Early detection is good news for the patient as it often translates to effective treatment. Nonetheless, early diagnosis is only a fraction of the whole medical picture. Other disease characteristics, like hormone receptors and lymph nodes, can aid [...]