Breast Cancer Treatment

What's Worse than Chemo? A Common Toxin that Renders It Less Effective

Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.17.2008 | Green

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Frances Beinecke

Going through the insult of chemotherapy is bad enough. But discovering that it could be undermined by a hazard the FDA refuses to regulate makes it worse.

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Hope For Millions Of Women As Scientists Unlock Secrets Of Most Widely-Used Breast Cancer Drug

Daily Mail | Fiona Macrae | Posted 11.12.2008 | Living

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Scientists have unlocked the secrets of the most widely-used breast cancer drug in a breakthrough that could save thousands of lives. Understanding h...

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Living with Breast Cancer

Beth Feldman | Posted 10.07.2008 | Living

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Beth Feldman

"I'm grateful to my cancer for leading me down a path that is better than where I was before. I used to say 'I just want my life back' but I don't want the life I had before back, I just want Life."

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Healing the Whole Woman

Mallika Chopra | Posted 10.02.2008 | Living

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Mallika Chopra

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the United States . While I have met many survivors and women going through treatment, I actually had my f...

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Stand Up to Cancer: My Story

Joanna Rudnick | Posted 09.05.2008 | Living

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Joanna Rudnick

When I was 27 years old, four words changed my life: "Positive for a deleterious mutation." Translated into English, that meant I was carrying the mutated gene that triggered the breast and ovarian cancer suffered by my mother, grandmother and great aunts.

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Burning Bras with Keira Knightley

Darryle Pollack | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living

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Darryle Pollack

Like Knightley stood up to Hollywood by demanding to be accepted as flatchested, I chose not to have my body artificially enhanced after breast cancer and a mastectomy.

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MDs Don't Give Women With Breast Cancer Options

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 12.24.2007 | Living

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Most doctors don't talk about breast reconstruction with women before cancer surgery, depriving them of key information that can sway their decision a...

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Breast Cancer Genes: New Strategies For Protecting Women

Dr. Rock Positano | Posted 12.21.2007 | Living

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Dr. Rock Positano

Breast cancer is still very much alive. Over 200,000 women will be diagnosed and 41,000 women are expected to die from breast cancer in the US in 2007...

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Stem Cells Used To Fix Breast Cancer Defects

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 12.17.2007 | Living

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For the first time, doctors have used stem cells from liposuctioned fat to fix breast defects in women who have had cancerous lumps removed. The appr...

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Fewer Breast Cancer Patients Can Expect Chemo

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 12.14.2007 | Living

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Thousands of breast cancer patients each year could be spared chemotherapy or get gentler versions of it without harming their odds of beating the dis...

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