Spiritual Outlook Can Affect Mental Health in Breast Cancer

Among breast cancer patients, a positive religious attitude is not linked to measures of well-being, but a negative religious or spiritual outlook can lead to worse emotional and mental health, a recent study suggests. Read more

The Many Prentative Health Benefits of Vitamin D

Scientific evidence shows vitamin D may go beyond its traditionally known role in maintaining bone integrity, according to new research presented at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo® earlier this month. It may play a role in preventing autoimmune dis-eases or over-acid tissue conditions such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, [...]

Health Tip: Lumps in the Breast

(HealthDay News) — If you detect a lump in your breast, it’s very important to have a doctor examine it promptly.
Thankfully, an abnormal lump in the breast doesn’t always mean breast cancer.
According to the University of Virginia Health System, a non-cancerous breast lump may result from:

A cyst, a small sac filled with fluid. These [...]

Early soy consumption linked with reduced breast cancer risk

An article published in the American Association for Cancer Research journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention reported that Asian-American women who consumed high amounts of soy during childhood had a lesser risk of developing breast cancer compared with women who consumed less soy. Although women living in Asia have a lower risk of breast cancer [...]

Early soy consumption linked with reduced breast cancer risk

An article published in the American Association for Cancer Research journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention reported that Asian-American women who consumed high amounts of soy during childhood had a lesser risk of developing breast cancer compared with women who consumed less soy. Although women living in Asia have a lower risk of breast cancer [...]

Vitamin D Helps To Prevent Cancerous Breasts and Tumor Formation

A connection between vitamin D level and the risk of developing cancerous breasts has been implicated for a long time, but its clinical relevance had not yet been proven. Sascha Abbas and colleagues from the working group headed by Dr. Jenny Chang-Claude at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), collaborating with researchers of [...]

Cancer is Acid and Acid is Cancer

It seems that both red and white wine are “equal acidic offenders” when it comes to increasing the risk of breast cancer, according to a study published today.
“We were interested in teasing out red wine’s effects on breast cancer risk. There is reason to suspect that red wine might have beneficial effects based on previous [...]

Scientists May Have New Way to Fight the Flu

(HealthDay News) — A new scientific discovery could someday lead to medications to fight the flu as well as a vaccine that would not have to be changed every year because it could target a broad range of flu strains.
“We identified new human antibodies that inactivate influenza, not just bird flu, but any of the [...]

Scientists May Have New Way to Fight the Flu

(HealthDay News) — A new scientific discovery could someday lead to medications to fight the flu as well as a vaccine that would not have to be changed every year because it could target a broad range of flu strains.
“We identified new human antibodies that inactivate influenza, not just bird flu, but any of the [...]

Greater carotenoid intake linked with longer cancer-free survival in breast cancer patients

The February, 2009 issue of the American Association for Cancer Research journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention published the discovery of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Arizona, and other research centers of a positive effect of high carotenoid intake on recurrence-free survival in breast cancer patients. Carotenoids, such as [...]

Experts Release Guidelines on Use of Breast MRI

(HealthDay News) MRI should supplement and enhance current screening and diagnostic for breast cancer, not serve as a substitute for it, according to newly released physician guidelines.
The guidelines, published Monday in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, give needed direction for using breast MRI, a relatively new clinical tool.
“Health care policy decisions regarding [...]

The Truth About ‘Bio-identical’ Hormone Therapy

(HealthDay News) — They’re marketed as “bio-identical” hormones or “bio-identical hormone replacement therapy,” and they claim to do everything from helping menopausal women lose weight to preventing senility.
They’re touted as safer and sometimes even more effective than conventional hormone-replacement therapy.
But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that these claims are “unproven” and that the [...]

Breast Cancer During Pregnancy: What You Need to Know

By Anne Krueger
Getty ImagesYou may not recognize the name Kerryn McCann, but it’s all over the news this week. McCann was an award-winning Australian runner, age 41, who died Monday from breast cancer that spread to her liver and brain. Sadly, about 1.3 million women worldwide will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and [...]

Breast Cancer During Pregnancy: What You Need to Know

By Anne Krueger
Getty ImagesYou may not recognize the name Kerryn McCann, but it’s all over the news this week. McCann was an award-winning Australian runner, age 41, who died Monday from breast cancer that spread to her liver and brain. Sadly, about 1.3 million women worldwide will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and [...]

Database Helps Assess Your Breast Cancer Risk

(HealthDay News) — If you want to learn more about the key risk factors for breast cancer, such as obesity, pollutants or smoking, a database can guide you to the available evidence that confirms or quells an association.
“Breast cancer is multifactorial. It would be rare for there to be a single environmental chemical that alone [...]

How broccoli protects against breast cancer

An article published in the December, 2008 issue of the journal Carcinogenesis explains how broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables protect against cancer of the breast. Increased intake of cruciferous vegetables, which also include cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and cabbage, has been associated with a lower risk of breast and other cancers, yet their mechanism of action [...]

How broccoli protects against breast cancer

An article published in the December, 2008 issue of the journal Carcinogenesis explains how broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables protect against cancer of the breast. Increased intake of cruciferous vegetables, which also include cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and cabbage, has been associated with a lower risk of breast and other cancers, yet their mechanism of action [...]

Osteoporosis Drug Seems to Shrink Breast Tumors

(HealthDay News) — Researchers continue to test the mettle of breakthrough breast cancer cancer drugs, three decades after tamoxifen changed the medical landscape by drastically reducing the risk of recurrences in women with estrogen receptor-positive tumors.
Encouraging findings on several different drugs were presented Thursday at the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in Texas.
First in [...]

Osteoporosis Drug Seems to Shrink Breast Tumors

(HealthDay News) — Researchers continue to test the mettle of breakthrough breast cancer cancer drugs, three decades after tamoxifen changed the medical landscape by drastically reducing the risk of recurrences in women with estrogen receptor-positive tumors.
Encouraging findings on several different drugs were presented Thursday at the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in Texas.
First in [...]

More High-Risk Women Preempt Breast Cancer

(HealthDay News) — SheKayla Love, 26, of Dallas, had the first cyst in her breast removed when she was just 14, the second when she was 19.
By the time she found the third lump, she was 25 and had watched her grandmother die of breast cancer (after being diagnosed at 55) and her mother endure [...]