Early on, the most common way to find breast cancer was physically feeling for any lumps or unusual growths or nodules in the breast. While this is still recommended by many doctors as a form of self-examination, it doesn’t always reveal cancer or doesn’t always say what lump or nodule is. Since my wife’s older
We’ve shared a number of posts about breast cancer and there is a good reason for doing so. Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer diagnosed in the United States and around the world. Did you know that here in the United States, 1 of every 8 (12.8%) women will be
Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent forms of cancer and although everyone thinks of women, breast cancer does occur in a small percentage of men. Over the years, it seems that more women fear learning they have breast cancer than any other form of cancer. How prevalent is breast cancer? According to BreastCancer.org
One of the most feared diagnoses for many women is the one that says she has breast cancer. Not only does it challenge her very life but it attacks one of the key elements of a woman’s femininity and sometimes her identity. The thought of losing one of both breasts is frightening and often leads
In the 1970s when my wife and I got married, birth control pills were very popular. Back then, they contained much higher doses of hormones than they do now. They mainly prevented a fertilized egg from embedding into the wall of the uterus thus forcing it to be flushed out of the body. We didn’t
Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer among women. It can occur in men as well, but not that frequently and it’s one of the most frightening forms of cancer for most women, even though the survivability rate continues to increase with early detection. Given the choice, many women would prefer
In 1961, a doctor held a plastic bag filled with blood and as he felt and squeezed the bag, he thought that it felt like a woman’s breast. A year later, that doctor, Frank Gerow and Dr. Thomas Cronin created the first artificial silicone breast implant. Timmie Jean Lindsey, a factory worker in Texas became
If you lined up some of the riskiest drugs out there, tamoxifen — an estrogen blocker that has been pushed on women to prevent and treat breast cancer for decades — would rise to the top of the heap. Many cancer patients are even refusing to take it. And the FDA-approved label says that doctors
Many doctors recommend a small amount of a hearty red wine every day for health purposes. A small glass of wine every day can help lower bad cholesterol, improve blood circulation and lower the risk of heart disease, especially in older patients. My mother-in-law was told to drink a small glass of port wine every
