The Pros and Cons of Tamoxifen
Tamoxifen is a wonder drug for certain: Taken correctly, it prevents recurrence in about half the women on it. Its side effects, however, are so dreadful that quite a few women stop taking it before it’s worked its magic. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - October 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney Source Type: news
Exposure to Radiation in Childhood May Increase Breast Cancer Risk
Exposing young women and girls under the age of 20 to ionizing radiation greatly increase their risk of developing breast cancer later in life as adults. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - October 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney Source Type: news
Breast Cancer Survivors: What Your PCP Needs to Know
Here are a few common bits of information that you might need to include in your discussions with your PCP during your annual or semi-annual visits (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - October 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney Source Type: news
Don't Wait Until Age 50 to Get Your First Mammogram
If you or a loved one turns 40 in the coming months, celebrate! Buy yourself (or her) a birthday cupcake and put a pink candle on top—and then give her a card with an extra, and special, message—that it’s time for her first annual mammogram! (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - September 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney Source Type: news
Attention: All Breast Cancer Survivors
Are you more than five years out from the completion of your surgery, chemo, and radiation for an early stage 0, 1, or 2 breast cancer, and you’re still seeing members of your oncology team? Then it’s probably time to start asking yourself why. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - September 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney Source Type: news
3D Mammography Is Here!
Mammography—breast imaging—began as an analog discipline, but its methods have been continually tweaked over a period of decades, always with the aim of improving the quality of the images. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - September 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney Source Type: news
Cancer Increases Risk for Severe Menopause Symptoms in Women
Cancer survivors were twice as likely to experience severe menopausal symptoms compared to women who have not had cancer. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - September 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney Source Type: news
The Importance of Monthly Breast Self-Exams
Forty percent of women find their own breast lumps as a result of doing this simple task that takes a mere five minutes a month. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - September 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney Source Type: news
How Oxygen Affects Cancerous Tumor Growth
Research from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has now proven that measuring how much oxygen a tumor is getting can be an important link in guiding radiation therapy. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - September 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney Source Type: news
Called Back for More Mammography Imaging: As Stressful as Women Claim?
Are women suffering long-term psychological damage when they are told that they have an abnormality on their mammogram and need to have additional imaging done? (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - August 4, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. Source Type: news
Fat Cells in Breast Tissue: Link Between Social Stress and Breast Cancer
Researchers have discovered that exposure to severe social stressors during a girl’s early life may be linked to her eventual development of breast cancer years later. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - July 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. Source Type: news
Stories Influence Patients' Decision-Making Process
Some patients hear the stories of other patients and then—based on the experiences of a stranger—make a grave and perilous decision about how to take care of their own life-threatening illness. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - July 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. Source Type: news
23% of Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients Suffer from PTSD
We commonly associate post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with the emotional turmoil experienced by soldiers returning from a war after seeing combat. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - July 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. Source Type: news
How Effective is Breast Cancer Drug Tamoxifen?
Researchers have discovered the key to deciphering Tamoxifen’s effect may lie in examining changes in breast density with regular mammograms. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - July 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. Source Type: news
Coffee Has a New Perk
Drinking coffee could decrease the risk of breast cancer recurrence in patients who are also taking the hormonal therapy drug Tamoxifen. (Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles)
Source: Breast Cancer Chronicles - June 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Authors: Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. Source Type: news
