Breast Cancer: Prevention
Tamoxifen
08/31/07, HealthwiseTamoxifen is the most commonly used hormone therapy for the treatment of breast cancer.
Mastectomy: Surgery to treat or prevent breast cancer
11/30/07, MayoClinic.comMastectomy — understand why this breast cancer surgery is used and what to expect.
Prophylactic oophorectomy: Preventing cancer by surgically removing your ovaries
04/05/07, MayoClinic.comProphylactic oophorectomy — surgery that reduces risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
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Low-fat Diet May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
03/01/06, M. D. AndersonLow-fat Diet May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
Your Complete Anticancer Plan (You're Covered!)
10/01/05, SELF.comHere's all you need to cut your risk, quell your fears and help put this top women's health threat where it belongs – in the past.
Heavy-Duty Workout May Lower Breast Cancer Risk
08/30/07, Johns Hopkins UniversityThose who regularly engage in strenuous physical activity may have a lower risk of developing both invasive breast cancer and in situ (early-stage)…
What's the Exercise and Stress Connection?
07/05/07, Johns Hopkins UniversityYour stress hormone levels will be reduced and life will look a little better after finishing a 30-minute workout.
It's Summer - Let the Sun Shine In
06/22/07, Johns Hopkins UniversitySunshine, because it provides our bodies with vitamin D, is also good for us. A deficiency in this important vitamin has been associated with an…
Does Your Stress Make the Cancer Grow?
06/15/07, Johns Hopkins UniversityWhile a direct link between stress and cancer has been suggested before, results of studies involving large groups of people have been mixed.
Would You Sign Up For an Autopsy?
05/22/07, Johns Hopkins UniversityThe purpose of a rapid autopsy, which is done only minutes after death, is to study how and why your cancer cells traveled from the breast to other…
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