Surgeon Angela Lanfranchi contributes a piece arguing that growing evidence ties induced abortion, though not miscarriage, to higher breast cancer risk. She stresses it is one factor among many: most women with breast cancer never had an abortion, and most who have had one never get it.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Cancer
Breast Cancer: Breast Reconstruction Following Mastectomy
The piece walks through breast reconstruction after mastectomy: a plastic surgeon replaces skin, breast tissue and nipple, with symmetry between the breasts as the goal. It stresses the choice need not be made at the time of surgery and is not cosmetic surgery.
Cancer
J&J Drug Provides Hope to Prostate Cancer Patients
In a Phase III trial of men with advanced prostate cancer who had already had other treatment, those given abiraterone with a low-dose steroid lived 14.8 months against 10.9 on placebo. Lead investigator Johan de Bono noted only four drugs have ever shown a survival benefit in the disease.
Cancer
What to Tell Your Daughter About Breast Cancer
Four suggestions for mothers during Breast Cancer Awareness Month: teach a daughter how her breasts normally feel and to examine them monthly after 20, share family history with her doctor, book a gynecologic exam once she is sexually active, and keep up with mammograms.
Cancer
Pink Alert: Genetic Discrimination with BRCA1 or BRCA2 Positive Gene
The 2008 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act bars genetic discrimination in health insurance and employment, but leaves out life, disability and long-term care insurance, where insurers can request medical records and weigh BRCA test results when deciding coverage.
Cancer
Eating fish lowers risk of dying from prostate cancer
Reviewing 17 case-control and 14 cohort studies, Konrad Szymanski's team found no link between eating fish and getting prostate cancer, but heavy fish eaters were 44 percent less likely to develop metastatic disease and up to 63 percent less likely to die of it.
Obesity
Obesity Leads to Rise in Arthritis
The CDC reports almost 50 million US adults had doctor-diagnosed arthritis during 2007-2009, up from about 46 million in 2003-2005, with 21.1 million reporting activity limits. Report authors expect an aging population and high obesity rates to push the numbers higher over 20 years.
Cancer
Pink Alert: Does Gasoline Increase Breast Cancer Risk in Men?
In the largest study of men diagnosed with breast cancer, Danish researchers found significantly higher rates among men who spent 10 years or more in jobs exposed to gasoline fumes and combustion, with the strongest effect in those who started before 40. Benzene is implicated.
Cancer
Pink Not Just for Women, Men Die From Breast Cancer, too
The American Cancer Society estimates 1,970 men will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and about 390 will die of it, a lifetime risk of roughly 1 in 1,000. Recent studies suggest men and women diagnosed at the same stage have equal survival prospects.
Cancer
Pink news: Plastic chemical may promote breast cancer development
A study in Environmental Health Perspectives found low nanomolar concentrations of bisphenol A blunted the effect of the chemotherapy drugs doxorubicin, cisplatin and vinblastine in two breast cancer cell lines, independent of the classical estrogen receptors. The work was done in cultured cells.
Obesity
Thigh Fat Offers Health Perks
Mayo Clinic endocrinologist Michael Jensen had mostly twentysomething volunteers overeat for eight weeks; they gained 5.5 pounds in the upper body and 3.3 below. Those who gained in the thighs grew new fat cells, which Jensen says keep fat out of muscles and organs; abdominal gain added none.
Obesity
Sleep Quality Determines "Type" of Weight Lost
In a University of Chicago study of 10 overweight adults on a low-calorie diet, total pounds lost were nearly identical, but on 8.5 hours of sleep participants lost 3.1 lb of fat versus 1.3 lb on 5.5 hours, with far more lean mass lost on short sleep. Ghrelin levels also ran higher.
Obesity
Pink News: Alcohol Raises Breast Cancer Risk
Alcohol makers are attaching pink ribbons to vodka, liqueurs and pink wines during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, though the National Toxicology Program lists alcoholic drinks as carcinogens. A study of 1,897 women ties drinking to recurrence, especially in postmenopausal and obese patients.
Avoiding Illness
Prenatal Influenza Vaccine May Prevent Flu in Infants
Infants whose mothers received influenza vaccine during pregnancy were 41% less likely to get laboratory-confirmed flu and 39% less likely to be hospitalized for flu-like illness, in a study following 1,269 women. Government agencies and vaccine makers funded the work.
Cancer
Pink tips: How to prevent breast cancer
The writer walks through the American Cancer Society's breast cancer risk factors, separating unmodifiable ones such as gender, age and BRCA mutations from modifiable ones such as alcohol, obesity, inactivity and hormone use, and argues diet and lifestyle can still influence genetic risk.
Cancer
Pediatric Cancer: A Cure for Neuroblastoma?
About 650 US children a year are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, and nearly half have a high-risk form with poor survival. In a randomized phase III Children's Oncology Group trial, a new immunotherapy raised the share alive and progression-free at two years above the 46 percent on standard care.
Other Diseases
Celiac Disease Rising in Vulnerable Elderly Generation
Celiac diagnoses in the US have risen 500 percent in 60 years, and a University of Maryland study found incidence climbing as participants aged. A Finnish study likewise put prevalence in the elderly at 2.5 times that of the general population.
Cancer
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Physical Activity, Depression, Healthcare Reform
A study in Cancer analysed 1,162,596 Danish men and found those whose wives or girlfriends were diagnosed with breast cancer were 309 percent more likely to be hospitalized for a mood disorder such as major depression, suggesting male partners need emotional and social support.
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