Surgery for breast cancer increases the risk of relapse or death within three years following the procedure, cancer specialist Michael Baum has revealed.
I was shattered when I was told I had cancer. The doctor said I had to have a radical mastectomy on the right breast and a partial mastectomy on the left breast, followed possibly by chemotherapy or radiotherapy, or both, and removal of lymph nodes...
We were concerned to read in WDDTY vol 14 no 12 (page 11) Dr Zava’s comments implying that concentrated supplements of phytoestrogens and, in particular, of genistein
If you have DCIS, experts such as Dr Samuel Epstein, a world authority on cancer, favour the watch-and-wait approach, then frequent monitoring; only consider treatment if it turns into true cancer. If it does, many alternative treatments are highly...
The results of two 20-year long studies into breast cancer treatments have shown that breast-conserving surgery results in better outcomes for women.
It is difficult to believe that I was diagnosed with advanced invasive breast cancer - and given a poor prognosis - back in April 2000. Eight months later, having followed a different treatment path, I went into remission and have never looked back...
Proponents of HRT constantly attempt to make light of the proven breast and endometrial cancer risks of HRT. A perfect example of this is King's College Hospital John Studd's view that although t ...
How all our massive screening efforts for breast cancer can cause the very disease they are intended to detect. ...
The longer women can breastfeed, the more they are protected against breast cancer. The importance of long-term breastfeeding is so great that the rate of breast cancer in the West would be more than halved if Western women had larger families and...
INFERTILITY: Well, how about one of our cancer drugs?
