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You need to come and discuss the ways you are at risk for cancer and the top ways you can prevent cancer. American Cancer Society States that 4/10 cancer cases today can be prevented . The Top Ways to Prevent Cancers come to Discuss: 1. Proper nutrition and Vitamin Therapy, this is sort of complex, takes a bit of work 2. Sunscreen 3. Exercise 4. Normalize Weight (preventing obesity goes a long way to eliminating uterine cancer) 5. Minimize Genetic Risks 6. Oral Contraceptives 7. (Chemo)prevention of Breast Cancer (Using Medication) 8. Stop Smoking (this is the single best way you can predict cancer. 9. Avoid HPV infection (get vaccinated young) and this will virtually eliminate cervical cancer in women and oral and throat cancers in men 10. Take oral contraceptives to eliminate ovarian cancer 11. Decrease alcohol intake Actually half of all cancers are in people with identifiable risk factors. It's a job for both you and your gyno to figure out if you have a risk f...

Classically it has been taught that estrogen excess, particularly what has been known as 'unopposed estrogen' (or hormone therapy with estrogen along) is the cause of uterine cancer. The theory that estrogen causes uterine cancer is being challenged. Inflammation, either in the body or in the uterus itself is now thought to be the more likely cause and a simpler strategy for reducing that cause would be to reduce inflammation. Uterine cancer is still the most common pelvic cancer in women. There are 60,000 new cases in the USA this year. The average woman has a lifetime risk of 1/38 of getting uterine cancer, which is considerably less than the 1/8 who get breast cancer, and double the 1/70 risk of ovarian cancer. .  Since risk factors for endometrial cancer, or lining cancer of the uterus (the most common type) include thicker lining of the uterus or uterine polyps, medical conditions listed as possible cause include diabetes, being over weight, and irregular periods, th...

National Comprehensive Cancer network Suggests:you  should consider Breast Cancer Gene Testing if: 1. You have one first or second degree relative diagnosed with breast cancer at or under age 45, or if one of these relatives has ovarian cancer 2. Two or more breast cancers on the same side of the family, with at least one diagnosed under age 150 3. Relative, first or second, with triple negative breast cancer at or under age 60 4. Three relatives on same side with any combination of breast, ovarian, pancreatic, or prostate cancer Genetic testing and then applying health care strategies to then reduce that risk is going to help women avoid common female cancers, according to Susan C Modesitt from the University of Virginia. Women are now calculated to have about a 1/3 or ¼ risk of ovarian cancer, but if you also have the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene that risk can multiply by 35 times! although complicated blood tests of genes are available, and ultimately have to be done to confirm...

Only 4% of women who could benefit from medication to prevent breast cancer are taking this medication. It is time to think about whether you are one of those women. There are many strategies to reduce breast cancer risk, and for women who are high risk there is a way to  use medication to lower your breast cancer risk . The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has changed the tenor of its recommendations in its clinical practice guideline on the use of 'chemoprevention' or taking medication, to prevent breast cancer, and they now are including the medications of raloxifene, and exemestane in the medications not just tamoxifen, and the organization is wanting more people to seriously consider these medication. Their point is that they are not seeing more people use these very effective therapies, and so awareness is not increasing, and more women and their gynos need to take note. Here is what you need to know Breast cancers,  that is due to cancers that ...

Our physiology varies, and what lies in our genetics makes some medical advice better than other medical advice. No where has that been more true than with aspirin as a prevention strategy. The risk of stoke goes up with menopause, women have fewer strokes prior to menopause than men, after menopause they have more.   According to the study Risk of stroke in women may come down to a compound the body produces from estrogen known as 2-methoxyestradiol (2-ME).  The 2-ME theory shows how that compound preserves the brain after strokes, although over activity of the compound can be an issue too. Furthermore, the compound's therapeutic potential may extend beyond treating stroke in women to healing brain injuries in men, a new study in the American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism reports. Women and men differ in their aspirin benefits, but both could potentially benefit making that hers and his aspirin bottle worth sharing (after personal consultation) ...

Women who have suffered from Breast cancer are more likely to need help re-establishing a healthy sex life. Actually it is not necessarily the specific treatment or surgery on the breast cancer that causes women to end up with specific sexual complaints. It is most often a whole constellation of  conditions that can cause problems with sex and intimacy. After breast cancer treatment the patient who had breast cancer may suffer from problems of body image, fatigue, disruptions of thought processing, and just the sheer work of getting one's life back can be the cause of problems with sex after therapy. The problems with sexuality often will persist through the years of post breast cancer treatments with the medications tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitor use, and in the years beyond that. Virtually all breast cancer survivors report concerns with sex. The most common issue is due to the to the medical condition of vulvovaginal atrophy and painful dryness of the vaginal tissues. Some ...

The benefits of breastfeeding for baby has never been in doubt. The health benefits of breastfeeding for mom were mostly for many years focused on faster post partum weight loss, and then the focus blurred with not only on benefits, but physical negatives for mom from breastfeeding. The saying 'you loose a tooth for each child' meaning the loss of bone calcium in pregnancy exaggerated by calcium loss during breastfeeding. Nutrition, exercise, and avoiding smoking has pretty much eliminated that concern! But interestingly as we have begun to scientifically explore the wide ranging benefits for mom from breastfeeding beyond weight loss: less diabetes, less breast cancer, less hypertension, fewer myocardial infarctions, and now it has been shown to help prevent cardiovascular disease due to less atherosclerosis, in a study on lactation from the CARDIA group.  Breastfeeding to reduce the physical risks of gestational diabetes is becoming more and more important as gestational di...

  Breast cancer prevention has been widely promoted for many years, yet too few women are taking advantage of this. Breast cancer occurs in 1/8 women, and about 1% of women with prior breast cancer are diagnosed with a breast cancer in the opposite breast each year. Mostly breast cancer prevention strategies look at risk factors such as smoking and alcohol, and asking women to avoid these things.There has never been a safe level of alcohol established with respect to breast cancer.  But knowing that in reality getting breast cancer is a combination of genetics, exposure, diet, childbearing factors, and hormones that ultimately causes breast cancer. Delaying when you have children, not breastfeeding, being obese after menopause, and excessively drinking alcohol all increases your breast cancer risk. It may not be blood levels of estrogen, progesterone or testosterone, but the local levels of estrogen in the breast tissue itself. Regardless of whether its the blood le...

Breast lumps that are non-cancerous typically are stimulated by the hormone estrogen. Cancerous lumps may be as well, but are much less frequently found than the non-cancerous lumps. The picture in this post shows a non-cancerous lump. For women with a breast lump that has been stable and suddenly started to grow, the question is, are you getting hormone exposure that you didn't realize? Hormonal stimulation can come from taking hormonal medications or from pregnancy, or from consuming estrogen in foods. Fortunately cancer in women who are pregnant is not common, and less than 1/1000 pregnant women are ever diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy. Plant estrogen or estrogen found in meats from hormone treated animals are both possible sources of the extra estrogen. Overall women who are diagnosed with breast cancer during pregnancy do not have higher death rates. For women diagnosed during breast feeding, their death rate actually is approximately doubled, but some think this is du...

Mammographic breast density is also now graded along with the other characteristics of your breast reported on a mammogram . Women with dense breast tissue have 3-5 times greater risk of breast cancer than women with normal breasts, and hormone therapy can increase breast density in 30-50% of women who take it.  The National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Surveillance site also has a lot of data on breast density at their site. They have developed a tool for health care providers to help them understand what patients are at most risk from dense breasts . Generally a physician can look at the mammogram and the amount of ‘black’ verses ‘white’ components of the x-ray. Very white means very dense. Since breast tissue is actually 3 dimensional the denseness of the breast also is based on the internal structures that the radiologist is seeing. The thought has been that too dense of a breast would then obscure the view of a cancer. In general the pictures are graded by the ‘...