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To help keep your nutrition profile on the right course, aim to follow these guidelines for a healthy, balanced, and nutritious diet plan during breast cancer treatment and recovery: Pick the best proteins. Instead of getting protein from animal products, particularly red meats like beef and pork, opt for proteins lower in saturated fats. This…

Women at high risk for breast cancer should make a special effort to adopt important lifestyle changes. If you’re female, you’re automatically at risk for breast cancer. That risk increases as you age, especially once you reach age 55. If you are Caucasian, take hormone replacement therapy, or have very dense tissue in your breasts,…

Even though men do not have breasts like women, they do have a small amount of breast tissue. In fact the “breasts” of an adult man are similar to the breasts of a girl before puberty, and consist of a few ducts surrounded by breast and other tissue. In girls, this tissue grows and develops…

Women who have a hysterectomy for ovarian cancer treatment are more likely to develop depression than women who had a hysterectomy for other reasons. In a hysterectomy, a woman’s reproductive organs, including the ovaries and uterus, are surgically removed, leaving her unable to have children. Women who are younger than age 40 are also at…

People with cancer and their families may feel guilty about their emotional responses to the illness. They may feel pressure to keep a positive attitude at all times, which is often unrealistic. This feeling of pressure can come from within themselves or from other people, or both. Sadness, depression, guilt, fear, and anxiety are all…

If you have breast cancer but still want to have children, you don’t have to assume that’s impossible. There are options that can help, but you do need to be aware of the risks so you can figure out which option is best for you. Breast Cancer treatment’s effects on fertility may be temporary or…

Cancers are staged according to how advanced they are and how much they’ve spread. Here are the progressive stages of breast cancer, and how they specify breast cancer spread:

Mammograms A mammogram is an X-ray of the breast. A screening mammogram is used to look for breast disease in women who do not seem to have breast problems. A mammogram can also be used when women have symptoms such as a lump, skin change, or nipple discharge. This is called a diagnostic mammogram. Diagnostic…

A study featured in the August 20 edition in the Journal of the National Cancer Institutereveals that the risk of mortality from breast cancer is not associated with high mammographic breast density in breast cancer patients. Increased mammographic breast density is one of the strongest risk factors for non-familial breast cancer and even though those…