Seen that? - Breast Cancer and Fiber

Filed in archive Best of on February 17, 2010

Breast Cancer and Fiber Well Woman Blog

It's an established fact that fiber is good for you. Fiber prevents constipation, lowers cholesterol and helps in weight loss. Research done at the University of Leeds in London has found yet another reason to eat fiber-rich foods. According to a report in MaxHealth, Researchers at the University's Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics have been tracking the eating habits and health of more than 35,000 women for the past seven years, [...] Read More


Urban Women Face Higher Risk for Breast Cancer Well Woman Blog

As if the risk of contracting breast cancer wasn't high enough. According to a recent study, women who live in urban tend to have more dense breast tissue, thus increasing the risk of breast cancer. The study, which compared women living and working in London to those living outside the city, found that city-dwelling women were more likely than their rural peers to have dense breasts. "Our study suggests that the closer [...] Read More


Fear Left by Breast Cancer Well Woman Blog

My mother lost both breasts to breast cancer, one in the forties, the second one ten years later. It left a real blight on her life. She lived to almost ninety, but the fear of having the cancer return never left her. She wasn't the only one who lived in fear. I was afraid that, as her daughter, I might inherit the disease. I checked my breasts often and went for [...] Read More


You Don't Have to Be a Woman to Support Breast Cancer Reasearch. It's As Easy As Buying a Cake! Cool Picking

Perhaps you know someone with breast cancer- or thankfully maybe you don't. But either way, you don't have to be a woman to support breast cancer research because truthfully - somewhere in your life, you have had contact indirectly with a woman with breast cancer. It's an important issue that affects men, women, families and children because often those with breast cancer have children. It's a cancer that knows no [...] Read More


deCODE BreastCancer Genetic Diagnostic Test Launched The Biotech Weblog

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Dawn PolanddeCoODE Genetics launched deCODE BreastCancer™, a new non-invasive tool for assessing risk of the common forms of breast cancer. The deCODE BreastCancer™ test measures seven widely replicated single-letter variations (SNPs) in the human genome that deCODE and others have linked to risk of breast cancer. These SNPs contribute to the incidence of an estimated 60 percent of all breast cancers. The test integrates data from [...] Read More