breast cancer

Using a Twitter post, actress of Seinfeld and VEEP fame, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, announced she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer:

It's pretty common knowledge that obesity increases the chance that a woman will develop breast cancer, and how her excess adiposity is distributed on her body can be a clue to her risk.

Fifty or so years ago a woman diagnosed with breast cancer was almost sure to be treated aggressively — with a radical mastectomy.

The utility of mammography screening for breast cancer has been a bone of contention, but for some women it has been a life-saver.

If you read only the headlines this past weekend, your holiday festivities might have been less fun, since the message seemed to be that consuming any amount of alcohol was a certain precursor to developing breast cancer.

Actress Shannen Doherty revealed in an Instagram message that she is in remission from breast cancer.

Here are the headlines: From UPI: Study links soy consumption to breast cancer survival.

http://cdn.nutrition.org/content/early/2017/02/08/cdn.117.000422

Recently a breast cancer awareness campaign has been popping up on women's Facebook messengers, including my own.

Recently, we wrote about the challenges that women with dense breasts face with mammograms — the primary tool used to screen for breast cancer.