TUESDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) — The risk of relapse can linger for some breast cancer survivors even after completing five years of what doctors call systemic therapy, a new study found.
But, as gloomy as that news sounds, there is a relative bright spot: the risk may not be as dire as many women fear. [...]
Being screened for prostate cancer probably seems like a no-brainer to most health-conscious men, given that the disease is the second-most common cancer in American men as well as the second-most deadly, affecting one in six men.
But earlier this week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of primary care experts that issues guidelines [...]
“I think that sunscreens do a good job at protecting against skin cancer,” said Dr. Ariel Ostad, a New York City dermatologist and skin cancer surgeon. “The problem is that there are only a handful of them that block UVA rays.”
“Many sunscreens have misleading claims,” said Jane Houlihan, vice president of research for the Environmental [...]
Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer, diagnosed in 67,000 people in the U.S. each year and killing more than 11,000, according to the American Cancer Society. Despite public health efforts to reduce exposure to ultraviolet radiation, the main environmental cause of the disease, millions of Americans still seek light rays either at [...]
Dr Albert Lim, in his article, The Age of Reason (Fit4Life, June 29), relates how a woman’s nosebleed problem was dismissed as “heatiness” by a Chinese sinseh and, when things got worse, a Malay medicine man told her it was due to “angin” or wind.
Two women in my neighbourhood were diagnosed with breast cancer around [...]
Exercise will become a “targeted therapy, similar to chemotherapy or hormonal therapy,” Irwin said
Any regular physical activity—the equivalent of a 30-minute walk, five times a week—will do.
Exercise offers many other advantages: It fights the fatigue caused by cancer treatment, calms anxiety and helps survivors feel better about themselves and their bodies. Some personal trainers now [...]
Women with breast cancer traditionally would see a cancer surgeon to have the diseased tissue removed and later see a plastic surgeon for reconstruction. Now, more cancer surgeons are getting trained in cosmetic techniques that preserve or restore a breast’s shape or appearance. This emerging field of “oncoplastic surgery” could allow a patient to minimize [...]