Women and Cancer

A flawed and biased controversial study was published yesterday claiming that women who take supplements have an increased death rate. The study does NOT show any cause and effect relationship. This is just bad science....

It is well known that smoking cigarettes  leads to an increase in lung cancer and oral cancers.  Recent research has now shown that nicotineitself is linked specifically to breast cancer. In a recent study published...

Study Shows Link Between Antibiotic < Use and Increased Risk of Breast Cancer This study was published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. According to the National Cancer Institute: The study concluded...

The age of personalized medicine is here. If you have a map of your genes you will have a greater understanding of your risks for illness and disease. Today we can now test for genetic...

The use of soy phytoestrogens (plant estrogens) for breast cancer survivors and menopausal women have been widely misunderstood. The controversy has stemmed both from lack of good research and the fact that a food component, isoflavones,  has...

I recently attended a private screening of Pink Skies: a film about women, breast cancer and courage. Explored are the challenges and the questions breast cancer patients and clinicians face everyday, including both conventional and...

If you know your risk you can take action and engage in Breast Cancer Prevention. You can address lifestyle changes. You can prevent cancer and cultivate health. You can learn about alternative cancer resources that...

Watch this video by Dr. Deborah Rhodes, M.D. from her December 2010 talk at TEDWomen on why mammograms are not enough for early detection of breast cancer in women with dense breasts.  Are you one...

What drives the spread of Breast Cancer? Recent studies from the University of California, San Diego, published in the British Journal, NATURE, have discovered a molecule called RANKL, found in aggressive breast cancer cells that...

After a brief decline from 2002-2003 women are being diagnosed with breast cancer at  increasing and alarming rates.An article posted on CancerConnect News states that there was only a brief decline in breast cancer rates...

A recently published study finds low blood levels of vitamin D may promote more aggressive breast tumors. The relationship between between low vitamin D levels and higher risk of developing breast cancer has been previously...

Is it safe to participate in an FDA Approved Study? Maybe Not. See my latest article on the Huffington Post Breast Cancer: Another Government Agency Fails the Safety Test This metaphor is not far off...