When your typical boomer left his Spock-trained mother's breast in the 1950s, that was the start of a lifelong quest for meaningful experience.
It was first used to get a better look at a breast in which there was a concern that a cancer might be present.
It was gradually replaced by lumpectomy and whole-breast irradiation after several long-term, randomized trials showed this treatment was as effective as removing the entire breast in preventing cancer recurrence and prolonging survival.
Last fall, the bears seemed to be right: Avastin failed to work in breast cancer in a 462-person trial.
Studies show that it's about 90% effective in preventing breast cancer in moderate and high-risk women.
The cancer, anaplastic large cell lymphoma occurs in the breast occurs in three out of every 100 million women per year worldwide.
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Doctors also found that taking exemestane reduced the risks of developing cancer in the other breast or in the uterus.
But for the average breast cancer patient who has neither the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation nor a close relative with breast cancer (Jolie's mother, for example, died from ovarian cancer), the risk of a new breast cancer in the nonaffected breast is less than 1%.
Dr. PHILOMENA McANDREW (Oncologist): Part of the reason is that we don't have specific targeted therapy that we can use in addition to the chemotherapy, the general chemotherapy that will act to further reduce the risk of spread overtime as well as reduce the risk of a new breast cancer in the other breast.
Results from another Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study showed a modest decrease in breast cancer risk in women who used calcium when compared with women who didn't use calcium.
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Breast cancer is the second leading cause of all cancer-related deaths among American women and one in six breast cancers occur in women 40 to 49.
Whilst nearly all of the women knew that a lump in the breast could be a symptom of breast cancer, 93% did not know all the other possible symptoms, such as a change in breast size or shape, a rash of the nipple or surrounding area, pain that is unrelated to periods or puckering of the skin.
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We know we're not finished when nearly one in eight women is still diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime -- a total of one woman every three minutes -- and nearly 2, 000 men are diagnosed each year as well, and that's something we don't often discuss.
According to the American Cancer Society, there have been an estimated 289, 870 new cases of breast cancer diagnosed among U.S. women in 2012 and the National Cancer Institute estimates that 1 out of 8 U.S. women are at risk of developing breast cancer in their lifetime.
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Kate Coulter, 52, had to give up work in a nursing home after being diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2010.
In the study, the association between soy consumption and lower risk of death and cancer recurrence was seen in women like Mulrain with estrogen-sensitive breast cancers, and in women taking tamoxifen, a drug designed to prevent cancer recurrence by blocking the effects of estrogen in the breast tissue.
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Michelle Houle, 45, has been participating in the STAR program at Bon Secours since she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010.
"Those who diagnose breast cancer and those who do mastectomy are separate from the plastic surgeons who do the reconstruction, " explains Dr. Frank DellaCroce, a surgeon at the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery in New Orleans, Louisiana, the place where Anderson's breast reconstruction was performed.
Aside for his service to entrepreneurialism in the U.K., he is also known for coining the catchword "bootiful, " for the television commercials in which he described the succulent nature of his company's turkey breast roast in a thick, Norfolk accent.
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Deborah Schrag of Harvard Medical School and her colleagues reported in the New England Journal that this ought to lessen the risk of breast cancer in women with BRCA mutations substantially, and though less so to reduce their chances of ovarian cancer as well.
The field of cancer research is moving rapidly away from defining a cancer by where it is in the body - one type of breast cancer can have more in common with an ovarian cancer than another cancer in the breast.
In general, the foods were gourmet takes on regional specialties: the Dallas Cowboys did Quail Breast Wrapped in Niman Ranch Bacon, the Denver Broncos served Szechuan Style Colorado Bison Short Ribs, the Green Bay Packers Wisconsin Duck Borscht with Duck Brats and Caraway Cream, The Kansas City Chiefs honored their legendary hometown BBQ heritage with Cider Braised Pork Shoulder with Caramelized Onions, and so on.
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Epidemiologic studies over the past 40 years have identified numerous risk factors for breast cancer, including: older age, an early age at menarche, a late age at first full-term birth, not having children, a family history of breast cancer in a first-degree relative, greater height, higher circulating estrogen levels, postmenopausal hormone use, breast density, history of breast biopsies, obesity (for postmenopausal breast cancer), and exposure to ionizing radiation.
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Some women without the BRCA mutations who are diagnosed with cancer in one breast decide to have both removed even though data suggest their risk of getting the disease in their second breast is low.
That's what a breast-feeding doctor -- an OB, pediatrician or family physician with a subspecialty in breast-feeding medicine -- would have done in Kelly's case: a complete physical and medical history (yes, in fact, it is relevant if your mother couldn't make milk) on mom and baby to see if any physical or anatomical factors were affecting supply.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, but she caught it very early.
The trouble is, there has never been an automated way to measure breast density in a mammogram.
Younger women are considered unsuitable because breast tumors in women under 50 tend to be more aggressive.
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