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Hormonal Therapy: Symptomatology versus Prevention Many times, hormone therapy is used for symptom relief. In this case, hormone therapy is used to reduce hot flashes, vaginal dryness, insomnia and night sweats. These are the usual symptoms many women experience during their perimenopausal years. In natural menopause, these symptoms are usually transient, lasting about 3 to 5 years. After th ...Clinical Trials in Breast Cancer The process of demonstrating whether a novel treatment method is better than the previous ones requires breast cancer patients to volunteer to take part in the testing of new drugs and procedures. These tests are called clinical trials.Clinical trials need to be done in an unbiased way, if their results are to be deemed reliable. This w ...Alternative Breast Cancer Therapies Jenny is a 42 year old mother of three. Being a housewife is quite easy especially when the kids are at school and the husband is at work. The rest of the day is spent cleaning the house and doing the laundry with an hour to spare at the local gym.After taking a shower, Jenny felt some pain the breast. This could be just menopause symptom ...Breast Cancer Treatment Options Over the past decade there has been advancements in many of the treatments available for Breast Cancer. Through constant research we have come a long way from the limited treatment options available in the past. The top treatment choices available today are surgery, radiation, hormonal treatment (anti-estrogen based) and chemotherapy. These 4 r ...Your Mammogram Is Abnormal – What Now? It’s 10am on a Tuesday morning. You are getting ready for a meeting with your team when a phone call comes in for you…from your health care provider. It seems your routine annual mammogram has found a small spot that needs further evaluation. Now what?No doubt about it, an abnormal mammogram is a scary thing. The first thing you should r ...Female Breast Reconstruction After Weight Loss Surgery In my pre-surgical consultation for gastric bypass weight loss surgery I remember asking my surgeon “will I lose my breasts?” He assured me, yes indeed, I would lose my breasts. Nine months and 100 pounds later they were gone. I was embarrassed by my after WLS breasts, now deflated skin balloons hanging low on my chest. My breasts – my sexual pr ...Can Green Tea Improve Your Chances of Surviving Breast Cancer? Breast cancer is one of the most frightening diseases faced by today’s women. In fact, breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women, after nonmelanoma skin cancer. About 13% of American women will develop breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. And, it is the second leading cause of cancer death among women, after lung cance ...Cancer Awarness Bracelet Awareness jewelry and other products are designed to help spread support and bring awareness to diseases and to help raise funds for patient services and research.Whether you are personally affected by a disease or show your support for a family member or friend, it is easy to find a variety of awareness gift ideas. From rubber bracelets ...Some Healthy Nutrition Below are listed some foods that are containing ingredients of healthy nutrition.Berries are incredible antioxidantsAh, the sweet taste of fresh berries! Berries are actually good for you and contain plant nutrients called anthocyanidins. 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It’s not ju ...Breast Awareness - Don't Leave it Too Late For the last three months, I have been nursing a deep concern: would the lump I found turn out to be breast cancer? How many other women have had that terrible feeling of dread when they came across their own lump? I have to say, I agonised over it for several weeks. Should I waste the time of the Doctor? If I waited a bit longer it may go away ...The Power of One Getting the best from yourself and others all starts with the power of one…One Thought, One Word, One Action.“One” is the first note in orchestrating your attitude. Contrary to the lyrics from a classic rock song, one is not the loneliest number. It’s the most important one!Your thoughts, words and actions are like individua ...Hypnosis In The Improvement Of The Quality of Life In Cancer Suffers Between July 2005 and September 2005, nine cancer afflicted volunteers were admitted for a clinical trial to assess any improvements in the quality of life with the use of (non Ericksonian) hypnosis. Six 20 minute sessions were conducted on each subject, over a six week period at the frequency of once a week.The 9 participants were both m ...How to Use Personas to Connect with Your Target Audiences Before your organization embarks on any communications planning or implementing a campaign, it's vital to understand the needs and goals of your audiences, and their behavioral patterns. That's the only way to connect your nonprofit's goals (e.g., engaging advocates to contact their state senators on a green space protection issue or motivating ...What Can The B12 Vitamin Do For Me? Anyone may have vitamin B12 deficiencies. Still, there are some categories of people who run a higher risk. In cases like this, vitamin B 12 supplement intake is recommended in order to stave off deficiencies.VegetariansVegans or vegetarians who don't eat eggs and dairy either and therefore are more prone to develop vitamin B12 def ...Truth About Low Fat Diets' Benefits A national study recently revealed telling facts regarding low-fat diets and their benefits relating to cancer and heart disease. A study concluded by the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) and Stanford University noted that a low-fat diet, alone, is not enough to greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and/or cancer in adult women. Researchers ...Certified Organic Cosmetics - The Healthy Option If you are like most people, the use of cosmetics and personal care products is an everyday affair. We touch up our faces with make-up, use face cream and other skin improvement products.We have learnt to trust the corporations that provide health and beauty products because most governments dictate the processes that protect people from ...Breast Cancer Prevention: Lifestyle for Healthy Breasts It has been estimated that by the year 2020, the number of women who get breast cancer may be as high as 1 in 5. That number is staggering. With the help of a "healthy breasts" lifestyle, you can defy those odds, and help to beat those ominous forecasted statistics. You can help change the future.Chances are, if you are a woman, or eve ...He Had My Back Covered It was 7:20 Monday morning and I was so relieved to see that Mike, the radiation therapist, was already there preparing the radiation room. One more time I made my way through the huge ominous door averting my eyes from the large red letters that read “DANGER- DO NOT ENTER”. I headed for the cold steel table upon which I was instructed to lie pe ...The Fight Against Breast Cancer: Going Green In the past few years, a number of women have turned to green vegetables in an effort to attempt to lower their risk of breast cancer. With the disease affecting as many as one in eight American women, it is only natural that women look to natural remedies in an attempt to improve their odds in the fight against this all-too-prevalent kind of c ...Treatments For Breast Cancer In the past, the treatment options for a particular disease were limited to only a few. With the advancements in medical science, we have scores of treatment options available for any disease.The various treatment options available for breast cancer have increased in number too. Today there are many ways to combat and deal with breast ...Studies Reveal that Acupuncture May Reduce Chemotherapy Side Effects Acupuncture, which dates as far back as the first millennium B.C., has been championed by practitioners, doctors, and patients as an effective vehicle for achieving balanced health. Acupuncture uses thin needles that are inserted just under the skin and left in place for about a half-hour.According to Chinese medicine theory, acupuncture ...Passive Smokers Can Get Breast Cancer! Learn How? US scientists have claimed that secondhand smokers are at higher risk of Breast Cancer. Earlier, their research also led to them to the conclusion that young women smokers are more likely to get addicted to smoking than young men.Breast Cancer is the number one cancer among women and the count of its victim are rising very rapidly. This i ...Navigating the Skin Care Labyrinth Most consumers give little thought to the recognized allergens, probable carcinogens, hormone disrupters and synthetic industrial chemicals that have been inadequately tested and yet, can be found in the formulae of our skin and body care products, shampoos, conditioners, cosmetics, perfumes, infant body care products, etc. These products line ...Maximizing One's Health with Nutritional Supplements In this day and age, most of us find ourselves failing to take in the recommended daily amount of nutrients that we should be getting. Nutritional supplements help to fill this gap by providing the vitamins, minerals, and other substances that we may be missing out on. In addition, personal food preferences, lifestyle habits, or special health n ...Marketing Your Book on Radio Have you listened to radio lately? If you have, chances are you've heard an author talking about his or her latest book. According to the "Let's Talk Radio Marketing" Website, "Radio advertising has proven to be one of the most cost-effective means of reaching your target audience."In other words, radio gives you the biggest bang for y ...The Truth About Breast Cancer Breast cancer happens when cells in the breast or a tumor, grow out of control and damages nearby tissue. In women, the most common and fatal type of cancer is breast cancer.DetectionThere are often no symptoms in the early stages. Women should be aware of the screening recommendations and follow them. There are varieties of sympto ...What Chemicals Are You Putting On Your Skin Okay, I was reading some articles today and one of them suggested that I take just one of my skin care products, any type, and list the ingredients in it, then see how many of them are toxic.I chose a product manufactured by a well-known skin care company which is based outside my own country. Obviously the product is not exactly cheap an ...Cancer Trials - Are They Ready for Prime Time? Clinical trials are the mechanism for improving survival and quality of life for individuals faced with a cancer diagnosis. Without trials, we would not know that mastectomy for breast cancer is equivalent to lumpectomy and axillary node dissection. We would not have the evidence that most patients with Hodgkin's disease, aggressive non-Hodgkin' ...
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