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Cancer Commentary - Caring About Cancer

December 16th, 2007

Big Update: Big-dose Chemo, No help in Breast Cancer

Speaking of breast cancer…
Previously popular treatments – i.e. big-dose chemotherapy – apparently are of no help against breast cancer.
Such were the findings recently reported by a group of Houston researchers.
A grueling and controversial breast cancer treatment that was popular in the late 1980s and the 1990s does not extend the lives of patients in advanced […]

By Gloria Gamat -- 0 comments

February 17th, 2007

Florence Cardinal’s Breast Cancer Story

Woman’s health blogger Florence Cardinal told her breast cancer story at Well Woman Blog.
Florence tells us how she at the young age of 12 dealt with her mother’s breast cancer and how the process affected her outlook about cancer in general.
Mom recovered, but it was a long road. Even after she came home she had […]

By Gloria Gamat -- 1 comment

October 24th, 2006

The Two Faces behind Mammogram Screening

Deciding whether to get a regular mammogram?
A new review of studies offers both the good and the bad news to women facing such a decision.
The good news being that screening mammography does reduce breast cancer mortality and the bad news is that women in a screened population are 30 percent more likely to be diagnosed […]

By Gloria Gamat -- 0 comments