Fight Breast Cancer with Fruits and Vegetables For anyone who has had breast cancer, this is important news. A recent study finds that certain breast cancer survivors who load up on fruits and vegetables, eating far more than current U.S. guidelines, can slash their risk the tumors will come back by nearly a third. The finding only held for women who did not have hot flashes after their cancer therapy, the researchers said, suggesting that the fruits and vegetables act on estrogen.Their analysis may explain why some studies have shown…

Breast Cancer: Facts and Fiction A simple pink ribbon serves as a constant reminder of the millions of women struggling with breast cancer. Yet despite the high visibility, confusion still surrounds some important basics about the disease. For instance, if your sister gets breast cancer, are there things you can do to avoid getting it yourself? If you find a change in your breast that’s not a lump, could it be cancerous? “Most women think all breast cancers are the same,

Please don’t call me a survivor Until there’s a cure found, I’m actually `living with breast cancer’ I was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time in 1993, and then a second time in 1996. Obviously, I’m still alive, but I do not call myself a breast cancer survivor. There are several reasons why. One is that the term “survivor” suggests–wrongly–that breast cancer is curable. It is true, thank goodness, that many of us will live long enough to die of something else. But most women diagnosed with breast cancer live with the threat

An actress. An athlete. A Supreme Court justice. They come from many walks of life, but breast cancer made them all simply victims. Happily, they shared the determination and good fortune to conquer their illness Olivia Newton-John Once she learned she had cancer, the singer acted quickly and never looked back Olivia Newton-John didn’t have second thoughts–or seek second opinions. She had had several benign lumps in her breasts over the years, but when her doctor discovered a malignant tumor in her right breast in July 1992, he recommended swift action. “He wanted to remove all the tissue,” she says. “I’d done a lot of reading; it seemed.

New drugs bring hope in breast cancer fight A revolution in the fight against breast cancer is well under way. The decision by an advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to recommend the approval of the drug tamoxifen to prevent cancer shows we are finally learning how to attack the disease before it occurs. This marks a breakthrough in medicine that doctors and researchers have been working on for decades.Women with a high risk, including those with a history of breast cancer in their families