http://thinkpinker.com/blog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:23:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Breast cancer in post menopausal women brings new issues and new concerns when it comes to treatments. It seems there’s been a break through in just what that treatment should involve. In The Daily Times says that recent studies have shown the combination of drugs can be most beneficial ... http://thinkpinker.com/blog/2008/07/04/drug-combo%e2%80%99s-for-post-menopausal-breast-cancer/ According to Science Daily when the tumor cells in the breast acquire the capacity to move around and invade other tissue metastases is much more likely to occur and treating breast cancer becomes a lot more difficult. At the base of the breast is what’s called the basement membrane which ... http://thinkpinker.com/blog/2008/07/04/how-breast-cancer-metastases-occurs/ According to Sky News breast cancer survival rates are on the rise. In fact, from 1946 when the survival rate was 37% to 1998 when the survival rate was 77% was more than double, and it continues to rise. Here’s some interesting stats from the Cancerwise site. In the 1940’s ... http://thinkpinker.com/blog/2008/07/03/breast-cancer-survival-rates-are-on-the-rise/ In a perfect world we would no longer have to worry about breast cancer for it would be extinct. But we don’t live in a perfect world, and each day women are having lumpectomies to remove cancerous tumors from the breast. Oncologist’s and cancer surgeons are recognizing that in their quest ... http://thinkpinker.com/blog/2008/07/02/improvements-to-breast-cancer-reconstructive-surgery-welcomed/ It seems we've reached a new day when it comes to the fight against breast cancer. According to the CBC it seems a British woman who is now 14 weeks pregnant will be the first woman ever to deliver a baby that will be guaranteed free of any hereditary ... http://thinkpinker.com/blog/2008/06/30/first-baby-guaranteed-to-be-free-of-hereditary-breast-cancer/ Each year about 240,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and about 40,000 will die from it.  There is no way to prevent it for sure, but there are things you can do to lower your risk.  There are risk factors that are innate and you are simply born with ... http://thinkpinker.com/blog/2008/05/29/breast-cancer-risk-factors/   According to a recent study coffee and tea drinking do not increase the chance of getting breast cancer.  This study was recently published by one of China’s largest news agencies, Xinhuanet.com.    Dr. Davaasambuu Ganmaa of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts said that with the large group ... http://thinkpinker.com/blog/2008/05/27/no-breast-cancer-worries-with-your-morning-cup-of-joe/ According to a Georgetown University researcher, eating soy products during puberty can lower the risk of breast cancer.  A certain chemical known as genistein in soy products is what protects women, but only if eaten during puberty.  This was published in the British Journal of Cancer.  Now these scientists must ... http://thinkpinker.com/blog/2008/05/21/eating-soy-can-lower-breast-cancer/ For breast cancer patients who happen to suffer from mood or anxiety disorders can be at a great risk of having posttraumatic stress disorder after hearing the news.  This study was done at the Ohio State University Medical Center where it find that out of 74 breast cancer patients about ... http://thinkpinker.com/blog/2008/05/19/news-for-breast-cancer-patients/ Good nutrition is key for everyone, but its even more critical for someone fighting breast cancer.  After she had breast cancer twice,  Diana Grant Dyer, a nutritionist came up with a diet for battling cancer.  She was struck again in 1995 at the age of 45 and was hit with ... http://thinkpinker.com/blog/2008/05/16/get-a-healthy-diet-to-defeat-breast-cancer/