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  • Think pink? I’d rather raise a stink

    en still face a greater risk of death than any other group. It’s still the most common cancer among women. It’s still one of the leading causes of cancer death among women. And it’s still the disease women fear most. Close to 40,000 women are expected to die of breast cancer this year, about 3,000 fewer than died in 1991—the year my mom got her diagnosis. She wore a little pink ribbon pin for a while. But after about five years, she grew weary of…

    Authored by on October 8, 2012

  • From spiders to breast cancer: Leslie Brunetta talks candidly about her cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up

    er correctly, she had to go frequently for a period of weeks for radiation. Was that you experience? Can you describe for our readers what the time investment was like and what the process was like? LB: I went for radiation 5 days a week for about 7 weeks. Three days a week, I’d usually be in and out of the hospital within 45 minutes. One day a week, I met with the radiology oncologist and a nurse to debrief, which was also a form of emotional…

    Authored by on January 31, 2012

  • Good Deeds, Good Science: Breast Cancer Research and Education

    …this “Favorite Things” post by Rachel), or through a deeply rooted sense of gratitude, as exemplified by Susan’s “Going HOME!” post. Unfortunately, Susan and Rachel are not anomalies. They are but two of the approximately 40,000 women (in US alone) projected to lose the battle in 2012.  Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 women. These odds put someone you know – your wife, mother, sister, girlfriend, aunt, daughter, friend, cousin, neighbor, co-w…

    Authored by on February 7, 2012

  • Is the bar high enough for screening breast ultrasounds for breast cancer?

    …ve dense breasts and lobbying to roll out all sorts of imaging studies quickly, no matter how well they have been studied, it would not be worth posting. Dense breasts are worrisome to women, especially young women (in their 40s particularly) because they have proved a risk factor for developing breast cancer. Doing ultrasound on every woman with dense breasts, though, who has no symptoms, and a normal mammogram potentially encompasses as many a…

    Authored by on September 21, 2012

  • The real scandal: science denialism at Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

    …ple. “What’s key to surviving breast cancer? YOU. Get screened now,” the ad says. The unmistakeable takeaway? It’s your fault if you die of cancer. The blurb below the big arrow explains why. “Early detection saves lives. The 5-year survival rate for breast cancer when caught early is 98%. When it’s not? 23%.” If only it were that simple. As I’ve written previously here, the notion that breast cancer is a uniformly progressive disease that starts…

    Authored by on February 11, 2012

  • Congress Is Killing Medical Research

    …tdown, ended in March. It included a 10% across-the-board budget cut to everything. That includes most of the critical medical research in the U.S. Every year, many NIH projects end and many others begin. (Most only last 3 or 4 years.) But not this year. Because of the budget shenanigans, NIH has been forced to cut or delay funding to almost all new projects. In other words, biomedical research that has already gone through rigorous peer review a…

    Authored by on March 6, 2013

  • Breast cancer screening and treatment, especially in younger women

    …recommend starting age 40 for most women. If you have higher or lower risk than average this will vary. #SCCAbcUW Medicine News Mammograms can decrease rate of death from breast cancer, especially true in those women over age 50 #SCCAbc http://1.usa.gov/puQ0NcWendySueSwanson MD RT @seattlecca: T4 Q2: What else can a woman do other than a #mammogram to screen for #breastcancer? #SCCAbcUW Medicine News RT @jrgralow: #SCCAbc Topic 4: Younger women…

    Authored by on October 17, 2012

  • How helpful are dense-breast right-to-know laws?

    …sk factor for breast cancer; §   mammography sees cancer less well in dense breasts than in normal breasts; and §   women may benefit from additional breast cancer screening. The California law goes into effect on April 1, 2013. It follows four states (Connecticut, Texas, Virginia, and New York) with similar statutes. All have enjoyed solid bipartisan support. Rarely do naysayers or skeptics speak up. Young women who are leading the charge oft…

    Authored by on October 1, 2012

  • HPV and cervical cancer don’t care what month it is

    …transmitted virus in the United States, and HPV-related head and neck cancer rates are higher among men. Further, HPV-related oral cancers have been on the rise for about two decades now, and HPV is now responsible for about 50% of oral cancers today. Research also shows that about 50% of college age women acquire an HPV infection within four years of becoming sexually active. In addition, an infected mother can pass HPV to her baby during chil…

    Authored by on February 1, 2012

  • Ask not what science can do for you

    …#8211;repeatedly–for more research into fighting metastatic breast cancer. As she notes, no woman survives this cancer. Thirty percent of cases of breast cancer progress to metastatic (spreading) breast cancer, yet only 3% of funding goes to researching it, even as most women diagnosed with it die within three years. Niebur observes that wearing a ribbon does not cure cancer. She writes, “I just want more time.”  Part of giving…

    Authored by on December 1, 2011

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