Innovative device offers earlier breast-cancer detection
[Date: 2011-05-19]
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A team of EU-funded researchers has developed a new type of mammogram technique using molecular imaging which could help detect breast cancer earlier.
The technique was researched as …
Detecting Breast Cancer early is a key step in protecting yourself from the dire consequences and risk of breast cancer. There is now some new technology using Infrared to help you do self-examinations in the privacy of your own home. …
Most women are familiar with mammography as our „gold standard” for breast cancer screening. However, there are additional tools available that women can add to their arsenal.
One of the most effective tools in breast cancer screening is breast self-exam …
Who isn’t familiar with the expression, „early detection is the best prevention?” We hear this term throughout the year and most everyone is familiar with this „catch phrase” as it relates to breast cancer. Obviously, a woman’s chance for survival …
Breast cancer today is one of the most threatening conditions that a woman might have. A woman’s breast undergoes a lot of changes during her lifetime. Right from puberty breast tissues are continuously developing. Women find changes in their breast …
Who would have thought that a technology for detecting breast cancer used today actually had its’ roots dating back to 480 B.C.? Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) is a fairly new technology that represents a practice that was once used …
In November 2003, the American Cancer Society stated that breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women between the ages of 40 and 44. In the United States, there are approximately 200,000 new cases of breast cancer and …
Cancer is a very serious illness. This dreaded disease has caused many deaths; cancer is a disease that’s characterized by uncontrollable cell division and the danger of these mutant cells to invade the neighboring healthy cells and infect them. There …
Mom was right to insist on us eating our vegetables. She
knew they built health and gave us the minerals we need.
Now scientists have found that we can eat foods to help
us both prevent cancer and fight cancer.…
I am truly inspired by a most mindful group of breast cancer survivors. Referring to themselves as „The Golden Mammaries”, these women gather weekly to support each other, share stories, and mostly, to laugh. In their fifties and sixties, they’ve …
How much chemotherapy does an obese woman need? Typically an obese woman with breast cancer would receive reduced doses of chemotherapy as they battle breast cancer.
Back in June of 2005, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine…
Gen BRCA, czyli diagnostyka raka piersi i jajnika
Geny BRCA kodują białka o tej samej nazwie, które odpowiadają za naprawę DNA. Dlatego jeśli będzie w nich mutacja, białka naprawcze nie będę prawidłowo działały. Badanie mutacji w genach BRCA1 oraz BRCA2 …
Naukowcy odkrywają znaczne różnice w sposobach leczenia nowotworów piersi
[Data: 2010-04-13]
W ramach międzynarodowych badań nad metodami leczenia nowotworu piersi, których wyniki zostały opublikowane w czasopiśmie British Journal of Surgery, odkryto, że występują znaczne różnice w sposobach leczenia między poszczególnymi …
Nowy lek na genetyczny nowotwór piersi
Pierwsze testy na pacjentkach wskazują, że nowy lek na raka piersi o podłożu genetycznym może pomóc tysiącom kobiet obciążonych dziedziczną formą tej choroby.
Badanie przeprowadzone na grupie 54 kobiet z zaawansowaną postacią dziedzicznego raka …
Badanie wykazuje, że u niektórych młodych pacjentek chorych na raka piersi chemioterapia nie daje rezultatów
[Data: 2007-10-12]
Jak wykazały badania, młode kobiety cierpiące na raka piersi niekoniecznie odnoszą korzyści z zabiegów chemioterapii.
Wyniki opublikowane w internetowym wydaniu czasopisma „Breast Cancer …
I had been a bit nervous all day wondering what my thermogram procedure would entail. Would I need to undress completely? Would I be given one of those paper gowns that opens in the front and barely covers me? Would …
Digital technology now makes Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging available to all. There now is a completely safe test that can aid in diagnosis, treatment and monitoring with absolutely no risk or radiation exposure.
DITI, or digital infrared thermal imaging, is …
The liver has many functions, but the one I will concentrate on is its ability to neutralize toxins we eat. The liver is responsible for making sure that nutrients reach your cells and blood is free of toxins and pathogens. …
