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Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Research

Canadian scientists researching breast cancer made an important breakthrough this month.
Scientists were able to decode the cancer tumor DNA and identify the mutations which cause the disease to spread.
Carly Weeks from the Globe and Mail reports:
The possibility of using a patient’s genetic information to create personalized therapies to battle cancer is one step closer to [...]

Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer

My sister was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and one of her treatments was Hormone Therapy. I was a little puzzled by this, as I always thought that HRT was unsafe for women with breast cancer. I’ve since found out that Hormone Therapy is NOT the same thing as Hormone Replacement Therapy or [...]

Breast Pain

After having the mammogram scare and still experiencing unexplained breast pain, my sister in law told me about an article she read in Woman’s World about some natural remedies for breast pain.
Here’s what the article said about relieving breast pain:
One of the more common reasons for breast pain is cysts. If you’re prone [...]