Women and Cancer

Every woman wants to know what she can do to lower her risk of breast cancer. Today, there are many risk factors that have contributed to more women being diagnosed with breast cancer. Most breast...

Why does a woman with no family history of breast cancer and no obvious risk factors for breast cancer succumb to the disease? What happened to her?  Today 1 in 8 women in the US...

More and more women are being diagnosed with breast cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, uterine cancer. If you are a cancer survivor, you most certainly do not want to have a cancer recurrence. If you...

Here is an article that appeared in Medical News Today about the impact of eating plenty of fiber on lowering breast cancer risk. Remember that plant foods are our source of fiber: whole grains and...

Image via Wikipedia From one of my patients: I was diagnosed with stage IIIc ovarian cancer.  After the initial shock, I got busy putting together an amazing team of practitioners to get me through this...

Niacinamide, a B Vitamin, may be of value to women with genetic risk of Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer. Why are some women more prone to developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer? This is a...

A Mediterranean diet rich in healthy fats may lower risk of aggressive breast cancers in post menopausal women. Researchers in Spain have discovered that a diet rich in Olive Oil, a source of Monounsaturated Fatty...

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....

Let’s try to make sense of this recently published study “Dietary Supplements and Mortality Rate in Older Women”: The study concludes that women who take vitamins die at an increased rate. It is important to...

“Chemo Brain is not “all in your mind” It’s real.  New Research confirms that the brain is permanently damaged by chemotherapy.  After breast cancer treatment women experience many side effects including ongoing  problems with attention,...

Cancer risk increases when the immune system is compromised by stress, loss of sleep, depression, inability to eat, poor nutrition.  When a woman is traumatized by sexual violence and sexual assault, particularly if it was...

Parabens are cancer causing chemical preservatives found in almost ALL cosmetics and body care products and many drugs.  A comprehensive study of women with breast cancer published in the January 2012 issue of the Journal...