What Doctors Don't Tell YouBoth the US and the UK have declared a war on breast cancer, the top killer of women on both sides of the Atlantic. But even though there is much evidence to support it, few advisories on preventi ...
As breast cancer rates continue to spiral upward (to 185,000 women in the US and 28,000 women in the UK every year), the pressure is on for women, particularly those over 40, to have regular mammograms.
Scientists have used statistical sleight of hand in their claim that the Pill is the safest drug in history. But their own data shows breast cancer risks that are alarming. ...
Physical activity can improve survival in breast cancer patients. Women with the disease who regularly engaged in physical activity reduced their risk of death. The greatest benefit was seen in those who exercised the equivalent of walking three to...
BREAST CANCER AND THE PILL: Does genetics have a part to play?
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...
Re HRT (WDDTY vol 13 no 2), if the risk of death or disease is increased by a certain percentage, then I feel less than informed if you don’t say what the original percentage of risk was.
Even if you've been on the Pill for a long time, this doesn't mean you will automatically get breast cancer. A long latent period after hormone exposure is only one reason why breast cancer incre ...
Women may now have yet another reason not to smoke - breast cancer.
A survey by Canadian researchers has discovered that childless women who smoke more than a pack a day
Studies estimating the lifetime risk of women with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutation developing breast cancer may have exaggerated the risk by only looking at high-risk families
