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New Mammography Guidelines Ignore the Individual
Monday, 8 Nov, 2010 – 14:08 | No Comment
New Mammography Guidelines Ignore the Individual

The Daily Breeze–November 8, 2010–During Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, the issue of mammography was again a hot-button topic for women.
The most recent announcement about new mammography screening guidelines by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a national panel of medical officials (not breast cancer experts!) who reviewed clinical data and made recommendations about [...]

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Omelet Lessons with a Short Order Cook
Sunday, 7 Nov, 2010 – 11:45 | No Comment
Omelet Lessons with a Short Order Cook

by “Pink Dozen” Guest Blogger, Beth Feldman.
I don’t know about you, but when it comes to the topics of eggs, every single member of my family likes them prepared a different way. For me, I do the straight up hard boiled version (I’m not a big fan of yolk), my son opts for scrambled, my [...]

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Breast Cancer Survivors Often Rate Post-Treatment Breast Appearance Only “Fair”
Saturday, 6 Nov, 2010 – 13:13 | No Comment
Breast Cancer Survivors Often Rate Post-Treatment Breast Appearance Only “Fair”

A third of breast cancer survivors who received the breast-conserving treatments lumpectomy and radiation rate the appearance of their post-treatment breast as only “fair” or “poor” in comparison to their untreated breast, according to a new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study that will be presented today at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the [...]

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The Art of Worshiping Women
Friday, 5 Nov, 2010 – 18:52 | No Comment
The Art of Worshiping Women

Modern Man’s Response to the Emergence of the Goddess
Back in July, I published a piece here on The Huffington Post called “Why It is Wise to Worship a Woman?” That article emerged in a very personal and spontaneous way. I’d been out for a walk with Chameli, my wife, one evening. Overwhelmed with the feeling [...]

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Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment: NSABP vs Real World
Thursday, 4 Nov, 2010 – 10:56 | No Comment
Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment: NSABP vs Real World

November 1, 2010 (San Diego, California) — Two new studies come to different conclusions about whether racial disparities exist in breast cancer treatment. Both were presented here at the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology 52nd Annual Meeting.
The first study reported that there was no evidence of racial disparity in the delivery [...]

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Spicy Sausage and Penne
Monday, 1 Nov, 2010 – 14:27 | No Comment
Spicy Sausage and Penne

OCT 31, 2010
“The Empty Cup Runneth Over”
Breast cancer affects many man and women all over the world. One of the most deadly cancer’s in women is breast cancer. About two weeks ago while on set for a Betsey Johnsonn segment that aired on NBC Ch.6, I met a wonderful women that is a breast cancer [...]

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Nanoshells Appear to Kill Cancer at Root
Friday, 29 Oct, 2010 – 12:39 | No Comment
Nanoshells Appear to Kill Cancer at Root

Heated gold nanoshells, the touted Houston invention now in cancer trials, appear to help kill diseased cells at a previously unreachable root level, according to new research.
In a mouse study published Wednesday, Houston researchers showed that the use of tiny gold-coated particles to deliver heat to breast cancer tumors already treated with radiation not only [...]

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Heath Insurance Doesn’t always Guarantee Breast Cancer Treatment
Wednesday, 27 Oct, 2010 – 16:28 | No Comment
Heath Insurance Doesn’t always Guarantee Breast Cancer Treatment

By Sandra Gordon
Breast cancer is an expensive illness, even if you have health insurance. “With today’s treatments, even just the copays on prescription drugs can be as high as tens of thousands of dollars per year,” says Marc Hurlbert, the executive director of the Avon Foundation for Women Breast Cancer Crusade in New York City. [...]

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Letters From Home By Andrea and David Reiser
Monday, 25 Oct, 2010 – 10:15 | No Comment
Letters From Home  By Andrea and David Reiser

By ANDREA REISER, For The News
Friday, October 22, 2010 5:03 PM CDT
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I hope that my story will inspire women to do everything they can to ensure that breast cancer is not on their lists of regrets.
Breast cancer. They’re two small words that barely take up any space [...]

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Top Ten Diet Myths
Thursday, 21 Oct, 2010 – 15:02 | No Comment
Top Ten Diet Myths

According to Health.com, about 80 million Americans each year go on a diet, spending $40 billion annually on weight-loss aids and programs. Since dieting takes up so much of our collective consciousness, you’d think we would know everything there is to know about the facts of weight loss. Unfortunately, this isn’t true–myths about dieting abound [...]

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