Breast Cancer Touches Everyone
On an early winter morning recently, I checked into the Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Center of Prentice Women's Hospital at Northwestern Memorial in Chicago.
On an early winter morning recently, I checked into the Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Center of Prentice Women's Hospital at Northwestern Memorial in Chicago.
Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 04.07.2012
The Planned Parenthood flap will come and go in a couple of news cycles -- instructive, but ultimately harmless. But if the gains for women in the Affordable Care Act go down with the ship, it may take decades to get them back, if we can get them back at all.
Loren Ridinger | Posted 03.07.2012
The madness started at the end of August when I discovered a lump in my breast. It wasn't the typical small lump that I have had before; this one was big, much bigger.
Reuters | Alina Selyukh | Posted 02.18.2012
By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Ned Calonge knows firsthand how hard it is to tell Americans they'd be better off with fewe...
Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 12.16.2011
First he gutted worker's rights, then slashed state education funding and dumbed-down sex ed....
Christine Bork | Posted 02.11.2012
As we reflect on this year's events, let's celebrate women's progress, recognize what needs to be improved and take the next steps -- together -- into the New Year.
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 12.06.2011
Regular mammography screening may reduce women's risk of dying from breast cancer by half, according to a new study from the Netherlands. The decrease...
Melanie Notkin | Posted 01.16.2012
How could a company supporting women's health founded by and for women not support a breast cancer survivor? Why is motherhood the only acceptable reason to leave the office before 6 p.m.?
Health.com | By Anne Harding | Posted 12.26.2011
Some doctors and public-health experts have stirred controversy in recent years by arguing that aggressive breast-cancer screening does more harm ...
Marlo Thomas | Posted 12.26.2011
The ability to laugh at something is the best way to get my anxiety off my chest (so to speak). So I was delighted last year, just before my annual mammogram date, when a friend sent me this very funny essay.
Red Room | Posted 01.21.2012
Looking back over the past 10 years, I can safely say, that what does not kill you makes you stronger. Having breast cancer was a life-changing event. And for this, I would like to thank my cancer.
The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 12.19.2011
More than half of women who get a mammogram each year will have at least one false alarm over a 10-year timespan, according to a new study. And 7 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 12.03.2011
Breast cancer deaths have dropped steadily since 1990, but they have declined at slower rates among women living in poor areas, according to a new rep...
AP | By SHEILA V KUMAR | Posted 11.15.2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- It took seven years of annual mammograms and a cancer diagnosis for Amy Colton to learn something her doctors had realized from ...
Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker | Posted 11.12.2011
So I'm alarmed by numbers that show fewer than 50 percent of American women over 40 with health insurance get a mammogram annually. This is not something we can afford to ignore.
Health.com | By Karen Pallarito | Posted 09.27.2011
Many radiologists rely on specialized computer software to pinpoint suspicious areas in routine mammograms. But in a large new study, the technolo...
Health Key | Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times | Posted 09.04.2011
A new paper, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, argues for a more complex approach to mammography based on personal risk factors suc...
The New York Times | REED ABELSON | Posted 07.13.2011
The nation’s major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set...
Posted 05.27.2011
NFL player Bradie James is honoring his mother's legacy by helping women with breast cancer. The Dallas Cowboys linebacker lost his mother to the dis...
Yael Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
About 12 percent of all women will get breast cancer, but 60 percent of BRCA positive women will. Having a harmful BRCA 1 or 2 mutation increases your chances of getting breast cancer by five times.
AP | By MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN ANTONIO -- Remember the uproar last year when a government task force said most women don't need annual mammograms? It turns out that only half of...
Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 11.17.2011
The American Cancer Society remains strongly linked with the mammography industry, while ignoring or criticizing the value of breast self-examination.
Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 11.17.2011
Studies show that a thermogram identifies precancerous or cancerous cells earlier, and produces unambiguous results, which cuts down on additional testing--and it doesn't hurt the body.
David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
The definitive solution to the dilemma of a toss-up is, of course, a third choice. In this case, that would be better screening that does not involve radiation.
Fran Visco | Posted 11.17.2011
This is the 25th breast cancer awareness month. We are being asked to celebrate that fact -- which is symptomatic of the problem. Why do we try so hard to make breast cancer palatable, comfortable, pink?
Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson | Posted 04.07.2012