Seen that? - Breast Cancer and Pesticides

Filed in archive Best of on December 25, 2009

Breast Cancer and Pesticides at Well Woman Blog

Bugs! We all hate them. Right? So, how do we get rid of them? Well, one solution is to use an insecticide. A variety of these pesticides is available. However, these products may cause more problems than they solve. Not only do they get into a person's system by inhaling the spray, they also get into our food supply. Spray your garden, and the spray remains on the plants. If they [...] Read More


Chemicals and Breast Cancer at Well Woman Blog

Looking for a cause for breast cancer? Family history and your genetic makeup may account for a small number of cases, but according to the Cancer Blog: A bundle of scientific reports indicate more than 200 chemicals, found in the air and in consumer products, cause breast cancer in animal tests. Scary, isn't it? Even more so when you read the list of potential culprits: There are 216 chemicals that induced breast tumors [...] Read More


Urban Women Face Higher Risk for Breast Cancer at 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


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