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Breast Cancer Chronicles

By Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S.
Provided by
Johns Hopkins
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Can Starch Harm Your Health?

A study presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference in December confirmed that increasing the amount of starch in one’s diet, especially during the year following your diagnosis and  More »

Ovaries and Bone Problems

Research conducted here at Johns Hopkins has confirmed that removing both ovaries (a double oophorectomy) as a way to treat or reduce a woman's risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer is not  More »

Cognitive Problems of Breast-Cancer Survivors--What Are the Real Causes?

For some time now, we've known that breast-cancer patients who receive chemotherapy have trouble with their thought processes during and after this treatment.  More »

Challenges for Survivors: Returning to Work

The first in an occasional series.  More »

A Common Diabetes Drug Could Reduce Cancer Risk

Who would have ever guessed that a drug commonly used for diabetes would turn out to be something that might reduce cancer risk?  More »

New Data on DES Exposure

It’s been suspected for some time that when a female fetus is exposed in utero to DES (the first synthetic form of estrogen)--because her mother happened to be prescribed this drug during pregnancy  More »

Help! My Breasts Hurt!

Virtually every woman on this earth has experienced pain caused by her breasts.  More »

Before You Have That Second Cocktail, Read This

For the past three decades, researchers have known that alcohol is what's called a carcinogenic agent to people. That is, it probably contributes to cancer.  More »

An Inaccurate Slogan

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You will no doubt be seeing lots of slogans and messages promoting breast health, including mammography.  More »

Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Those of you with hereditary breast cancer (confirmed by the finding that you carry a breast-cancer gene), please listen up.  More »

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