WEDNESDAY, March 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Your annual screening mammogram may do more than spot breast cancer early — it may give you a heads up on your heart disease risk, too. Digital breast X-rays can also detect a build-up of calcium in the arteries of your breasts, an early sign of heart disease. … Read more
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) — An experimental therapy that harnesses the body’s tumor-fighting immune cells may be effective for some women with advanced breast cancer, early research suggests. The findings come from an ongoing trial at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI). It is testing a new approach to treating women whose breast … Read more
The fatal Covid-19 that turned into a global pandemic in the year 2020, has affected every aspect of life, including screening, diagnosis, and treatment of other diseases. By Dr K Govind Babu, Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer as the most common invasive form in women. It has … Read more
Bengaluru: Fortis Cancer Institute announced the installment of Karnataka’s first IORT (Intraoperative radiotherapy) system for the treatment of breast cancer. IORT is a single dose of radiation given to selected early-stage cancer patients which reduces the time for radiation therapy from 30 – 40 days to 30-40 minutes. Doctors at the institute have successfully performed … Read more
By Cara MurezHealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Dec. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) – While some plastic surgeons recommend no exercise for weeks after breast augmentation, new research suggests the ban may not be necessary. A new clinical trial found that women who resumed exercise after one week off did not have more complications and were more satisfied … Read more
Editor’s note: Bob Brisco is the CEO of Internet Brands, the parent company of WebMD. Dec. 24, 2021 — We’ve lost Kristy Hammam, WebMD’s long time editor, to cancer. She was only 50. Kristy’s passing makes no sense. She did as much to educate the public about good health as almost anyone, ever. She took care … Read more
Dec. 24, 2021 — Kristy Hammam, WebMD’s former editor-in-chief and senior vice president, has died of breast cancer. She was 50 years old. Kristy resigned from a 22-year career at WebMD in June 2021, after losing much of her eyesight as a result of treatments in her fight against triple-negative breast cancer. She recounted her … Read more
Dec. 10, 2021 — Nancy Howe’s oncologist was emphatic: You need to take it easy. It was 1997, and Howe had just had surgery for head and neck cancer. Now she had to withstand 7 weeks of radiation therapy, and the side effects that go with it — deep fatigue most of all. Howe had … Read more
I thought I was doing everything right. I never missed my annual mammogram. I did self-exams, ate healthy, and had no known risk factors for breast cancer. Yet, one day I felt a lump. I wasn’t particularly worried. I had recently had a “normal” mammogram, which didn’t detect anything. Then I was sent for a … Read more
By Cara MurezHealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Dec. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A condition called lymphedema is a well-known side effect of breast cancer treatment that can lead to swelling in the arms and legs. New research suggests that Black women experience are at more than three times the risk of this painful issue compared to … Read more