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Mammary Dysplasia: How to Identify It

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Mammary dysplasia is characterized by abnormal changes in the breast. It is a fairly common condition that affects many women in the world.

Mammary dysplasia generates changes affecting the surrounding tissue and glandular, but in turn may be accompanied by fibrosis, retention of fluid and cysts.

To identify mammary dysplasia attention to your symptoms:

• The breasts are uneven in consistency, dense areas are irregularities in the tissue, especially in the external quadrants.
• You feel a constant annoyance.
• There is a sense of congestion.
• There may be severe pain and tenderness.
• The discomfort in the breast is more intense after the rule.
• There are changes in the nipple. (more…)

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Learn How Mammograms are Performed

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

A mammogram is an x-ray of the breast. It is used to detect tumors and to help differentiate benign or malignant cancer problems. How is the test? You will pass a room where you find the computer. You’ll have to take off the top but will give you a gown to your tapes. Depending on the type of used equipment, you can stay seated or standing. A breast is placed on a flat surface that contains the x-ray

A device called a compressor will press firmly against the breast to help flatten the breast tissue. X-ray images are taken from several angles. You can ask the patient to hold your breath while taking each image. Sometimes you’ll be asked back at a later date to take more breast imaging. (more…)

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Bitter Melon Prevents Breast Cancer

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Ratna Ray, director of the study, explains that he was surprised that bitter melon extract, she prepares herself fried strips inhibited the growth of breast cancer cells. “To our knowledge, this is the first report describing the effect of bitter melon extract on cancer cells. Our results were encouraging. We have shown that bitter melon extract induces cell death of breast cancer and decreases growth and expansion. ”

Bitter melon extract, a powerful medicine. Ray said she decided to study the impact of bitter melon extract on breast cancer cells because other research has shown that the substance reduces blood sugar and cholesterol levels. Bitter melon extract used as traditional medicine to treat diabetes in China and India. (more…)

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Breast Cancer: Diet and Lifestyle

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Diet and LifestyleThe breast cancer development can not be attributed to a single factor, there are many factors that influence also our diet and lifestyle.

Breast cancer is an increasingly common disease. We all have a case in our environment, and this frightens us. Fear because we think it is a lottery, we can not do anything about it.

But the truth is that this is no longer the case. There are people who barely know the breast cancer, such as China and Japan. But that’s only when they follow the traditional diet. When they move to the West, or take the Western diet, after two generations the breast cancer rates are equal to those of Westerners. This rules out, for now, the genetic variable.

This has been one of the most important clues that have followed many research teams to try to detect what are the environmental factors, diet, lifestyle, creating fertile ground for the development of breast cancer. Fortunately for us to know more about them gives us the chance to do something, or much, to reduce this risk.
A constellation of causes for breast cancer development (more…)

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Olive Oil may Improve Breast Cancer Therapy

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Olive Oil may Improve Breast Cancer Therapy

Ramon Colomer, head of the Catalan Institute of Oncology in Girona, is a member of the team that reveal just how an element of the diet such as olive oil penetrates into the depths of the cells to act on a gene associated with breast cancer. In his view, the results of his group put emphasis on original research path that can have a significant impact on both prevention and treatment of this tumor. The investigation “clearly shows a relationship between dietary components and ontogenesis” he says.

In this experimental study has shown that the administration of olive oil along with a widely used drug in the treatment of breast cancer (transtuzumab or monoclonal antibody Herceptin) significantly increases the effectiveness of therapy. If these experimental results are confirmed in humans, “olive oil may improve breast cancer therapy,” says Colomer.
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Group Therapy Reduces Anxiety Caused by Cancer

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Group Therapy Reduces Anxiety Caused by Cancer

In women who have just begun treatment for breast cancer, group therapy can reduce unwanted and uncontrolled thoughts related to illness, relieving anxiety about cancer and general stress reduction, researchers at the University of Miami in Florida. An article published in American Journal of Psychiatry said the team led by Dr. Michael H. Antoni brought to 199 patients should be operated for breast cancer.

The women were randomly assigned to the group receiving therapy or a control group, which had the option to attend a one day seminar.

Patients with group therapy sessions attended by 10 weeks of cognitive behavioral stress management. The sessions included relaxation training, restructuring of thought and development of cooperative skills.
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Advanced Therapy Prevent Breast Cancer Metastasis

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Develop an advanced therapy to prevent breast cancer metastasis

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (United States) have developed a mouse model of the disease a new kind of therapy that prevents expand the breast cancer metastasis. The study results are published in the online edition of the journal Nature Biotechnology. “

Although it is necessary to investigate the safety and efficacy of this therapy earlier in human testing, the study provides a proof of principle that someday might be beneficial for treating breast cancer (more…)

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Treatment of Breast Cancer Radiotherapy Session Limits

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Treatment of Breast Cancer Radiotherapy

A pioneering treatment to treat breast cancer, which reduces the radiation to a half hour session, is achieving good results in trials with patients, according to doctors at University College London.

The test, used after removal of the tumor in cases where the cancer is at an advanced stage, kills any remaining cancer cells with a concentrated emission of radiation.

Currently, women with breast cancer undergoing radiation therapy five sessions lasting about six weeks after surgery, that attempts to preserve most of the chest rather than a mastectomy, according to experts.

The doctors are confident that once you go to publish the results of tests later this year, could be offered a single radiation therapy (known in its acronym in English as IORT), according to experts, led by oncologist Michael Baum whose studies published today, the newspaper “The Times”. (more…)

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Testing a Less Invasive Therapy

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Testing a Less Invasive Therapy

Breast Cancer

After removing a tumor, would be reduced ray sessions from five to just one. It’s a British medical research.

After removing a breast tumor, in cases where the cancer is at an advanced stage, should be carried out sessions of radiotherapy to kill any remaining cancer cells. Currently, patients undergo five sessions that last about six weeks after surgery. But doctors at University College London are testing a new treatment that could reduce treatment to a single session. (more…)

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Complementary Therapy for Breast Cancer

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Complementary Therapy for Breast Cancer

Cathepsin D protein proliferation of cancer cells

To overcome problems of resistance to some current conventional therapies, the researchers are trying to find a new therapeutic target.

Each year in France, about 27 000 new cases of cancer of the breast are detected and there are about 8 500 deaths. Most cases of breast cancer (70%) occur without any apparent risk known.
Risk factors most frequently

Factors that increase the risk of breast cancer include:

* The duration of estrogen stimulation of breast

The risk of breast cancer is increased by early puberty and late menopause, suggesting that prolonged exposure of the breast with high levels of ovarian steroids, primarily estrogen, among pre-menopausal women increases the risk of breast cancer .
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