What Doctors Don't Tell YouThat's the new proposal of surgeon Bernard Palmer, who advocates "prophylactic" mastectomies (ie, mastectomies on healthy breasts) for women with a family history of breast cancer. ...
My sister has been treated for over five years at hospital for breast cancer. However, early last year, I asked if a doctor from our surgery would call as she felt unwell when she woke up (although she did improve during the day).
If you use permanent or semi-permanent hair colours, you are increasing your risk of developing cancer. Both animal and human studies show that the body rapidly absorbs chemicals in permanent and ...
New evidence points to a strong link between raised progesterone levels and the eventual development of breast cancer. ...
The drug company giveth, and it taketh away, too. The thought came to mind after we looked at the success of the drug tamoxifen in fighting - and preventing - breast cancer. Unfortunately it's likely to give you endometrial cancer instead. But it...
Women who took diethylstilbestrol (DES) to prevent miscarriages during pregnancy in the Fifties and Sixties have a "statistically significant" increased risk of developing breast cancer (JAMA, 28 ...
American drug regulators look like opening the floodgates on the use of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen. It is about to be licensed in the US as a preventative and there's a good chance the UK m ...
WHO PAYS THE PIPER: Web information you can't trust
Is one body type more likely to develop breast cancer than another? In other words can we just look at a woman to assess her risk? Doctors believe that our height and body-mass index (BMI) both play a part in determining risk, but is this picture...
I would like to inform you and your readers of another alternative cancer treatment I have recently heard about. My partner’s friend was diagnosed with ovarian and breast cancer with lymphoma. This combination of cancers is, I understand, invariably...
