Breast cancer posts
The New York Times - Well - Health Fear of breast cancer is widespread, yet many women don’t realize that could counter their concern by adopting protective living habits to help keep breast cancer at bay.
How to Lower Breast Cancer Risk
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Certain health habits may keep breast cancer at bay and help to ward off other life-threatening ills.
106 months ago
Health Although he’d lost his sister to breast cancer just two years before, it never occurred to him that breast cancer was an “equal opportunity” killer.
‘Men Have Breasts, Too’: New York Man Who Survived Stage 2 Breast Cancer Spreads Message
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"Breast cancer doesn’t discriminate."
113 months ago
HuffPost UK Lifestyle "My aim has been to stop defining myself by my own cancer diagnosis."
I Have Stage IV Breast Cancer But Breast Cancer Awareness Month Doesn't Represent Me
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Breast Cancer Awareness Month has barely registered on my radar this year. More than 10 years ago I was treated for primary breast cancer with the full w...
113 months ago
Jezebel Men often think they can't get breast cancer because men often think they don't have breasts.
Pinkwashing Hurts Male Breast Cancer Victims, Too
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About 2,600 men per year are diagnosed with breast cancer. This amounts to just 1 percent of breast cancer victims, but the number is high regardless—especially to those who don’t realize that men can get breast cancer at all.
122 months ago
CBS News Health Breaking the silence on male breast cancer: "I can admit it now, to be honest with you, I was embarrassed. When people asked me, 'Mike, what kind of cancer did you have?' I couldn't say breast cancer. I said chest cancer."
A male breast cancer survivor, first embarrassed, now empowered
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Michael Singer didn't tell friends about his diagnosis for a year; now the Harley-riding Bronx native is an outspoken advocate for male breast cancer awareness
122 months ago
Mark Healthish Breast Cancer Awareness Month. All Women Should Read This!!! + VIDEO
Breast Cancer: Symptoms and Self-Exam - Best Healthy Guide
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Breast cancer is mainly manifested as painless lump in the breast
126 months ago
Jezebel The American Cancer Society's Feel Good Look Good is a worthy cause. Except for the part where some of the products, according to Breast Cancer Action, may contain carcinogens and chemicals that can interfere with the effectiveness of Tamoxifen, one Read more ... of the most common breast cancer drugs.
Critics Say Breast Cancer Care Packages May Have Makeup with Potentially Cancer-Causing Chemicals
jezebel.com
We’re facing another long month of Breast Cancer Awareness ™, in which companies show their sensitivity to the cause of breast health by peddling pink junk which, in some causes, has ingredients linked to breast cancer, or that haven’t been ext Read more ... ensively tested for safety. This year, according to the…
126 months ago
Health.com The medical community does not agree on whether ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)—or what some call “Stage 0” breast cancer—is cancer, precancer, a precursor to cancer, or a risk factor for cancer. (via Fusion)
What if you might have breast cancer—but you're not sure?
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Last month The New York Times published a story that seemed to suggest treating "pre-breast cancer" might be unnecessary. Here’s what some doctors think.
126 months ago
The New York Times - Well - Health Faces of Breast Cancer
"On May 2012, I heard those dreaded words: 'It's not good news. You have cancer.' Even though I was the only child of a breast cancer survivor, I never thought I could get breast cancer as a male. I now tell anyone who will li Read more ... sten that they need to do their self-exams monthly and talk to their doctor about their cancer risk."
-Bob DeVito, Waterbury, Conn.
Read Bob's full story: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/projects/breast-cancer-stories/stories/483
128 months ago
HuffPost UK Lifestyle "32 women will die from breast cancer today in the UK, and if we are to fund the research needed to put an end to breast cancer by 2050, we need to act now."
Charity Vows To Stop Women Dying From Breast Cancer By 2050
huffingtonpost.co.uk
A major charity has vowed to stop women from dying of breast cancer by 2050. Breast Cancer Now, a super charity merging Breast Cancer Campaign and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, has revealed its ambit
129 months ago