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Books on: breast cancer

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Manmade Breast Cancers

Book by Zillah Eisenstein; Cornell University Press, 2001

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Breast--Cancer--Political Aspects, Breast--Cancer--Social Aspects

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...About Environmental Chemicals and Breast Cancer? The Ribbon , 2, no. 3 (fall...Craig Henderson, Risk Factors for Breast Cancer Development, Cancer 71, no...Do about the Risk of Dying of Breast Cancer? Current Problems in Cancer 14...
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Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer: Beating the Odds

Book by M. Margaret Kemeny, Paula Dranov; Addison-Wesley, 1992

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Breast--Cancer--Prevention, Breast--Cancer--Risk Factors, Ovaries--Cancer--Prevention, Ovaries--Cancer--Risk Factors

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develop breast cancer less often than those with low blood...that could influence a womans risk of breast cancer, they found no difference in selenium levels between nurses who did develop breast cancer and those who didnt. The study probably...
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Breast Cancer? Let Me Check My Schedule

Book by Peggy McCarthy, Jo An Loren; Westview Press, 1997

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Breast--Cancer--Patients--Biography, Breast--Cancer--Psychological Aspects, Women Patients--Psychology

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Once breast cancer has been found, more tests are done to determine if it has spread...This process is called staging. The following stages are used for breast cancer. Breast cancer in situ also called carcinoma in situ is very early cancer...
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Understanding Breast Cancer

Book by Joy Ogden; Wiley, 2004

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Breast--Cancer--Popular Works

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...a secondary (or metastatic) cancer. Breast cancer cells which have spread to the lungs or liver are still breast cancer cells and the new tumour is secondary breast cancer, not lung cancer or liver cancer...
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Understanding the Mammography Controversy: Science, Politics, and Breast Cancer Screening

Book by Madelon L. Finkel; Praeger, 2005

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Breast--Cancer--Diagnosis--Evaluation, Breast--Cancer--Risk Factors, Breast--Radiography, Medical Screening--Evaluation

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...have had family members with breast cancer. These descriptive reports of familial aggregation of breast cancer led to empirical statistical...sister, daughter) with breast cancer. Having two first-degree...genes that increase the risk of cancers is now possible. Several genes...

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Journal Articles on: breast cancer

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Advancing Social Workers' Responsiveness to Health Disparities: The Case of Breast Cancer Screening

Journal article by Mary Altpeter, James Mitchell, Joan Pennell; Health and Social Work, Vol. 30, 2005

Subjects:

African American women--Medical examination, Breast cancer--Analysis, Breast cancer--Diagnosis, Breast cancer--Statistics, Social workers--Management

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...Disparities: The Case of Breast Cancer Screening. by Mary...womens decisions about breast cancer screening, including...women who have discussed breast cancer risk have a heightened...late-stage breast cancers (Mathews et al...
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Breast Cancer Biology and Behavior in Older Women: Biobehavioral Perspectives

Journal article by J. Taylor Harden, Janice Phillips, Sandra Bibb; Annual Review of Gerontology & Geriatrics, Vol. 30, 2010

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Breast cancer, Health care, Medical research, United States, Womens health

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...al., 2003). BIOLOGY OF BREAST CANCER Biology is not destiny but...biobehavioral health, and breast cancer disease. The past decade of...the complexities of breast cancer biology (Carey, 2010...are that early-onset breast cancers largely represent inherited...
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The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers: Transdisciplinary Research on the Role of the Environment in Breast Cancer Etiology

Journal article by Robert A. Hiatt, Sandra Z. Haslam, Janet Osuch; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 117, 2009

Subjects:

Breast cancer--Research, Breast cancer--Risk factors, Interdisciplinary research--Usage

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...The higher incidence of breast cancer observed in nulliparous...the growth of incipient cancers and be the basis for...and race/ethnicity to breast cancer is complex. Breast cancer is one of the few cancers related directly to higher...
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Breast Cancer Screening: Cultural Beliefs and Diverse Populations

Journal article by Cassandra E. Simon; Health and Social Work, Vol. 31, 2006

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Breast cancer--Demographic aspects, Breast cancer--Diagnosis, Ethnic groups--Health aspects, Social workers--Services, Women--Behavior, Women--Health aspects, Women--Social aspects

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...lumps. There are excellent breast lump detection models that replicate breasts of varying shades with different...what a lump feels like. Breast cancer beads are another useful...size of lumps often felt in breasts when breast cancer is discovered...
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The Science, Studies and Sociology of the Abortion Breast Cancer Link*

Journal article by Angela Lanfranchi; Issues in Law & Medicine, Vol. 21, 2005

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Abortion, Breast cancer, Health risk assessment, Sociology

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...The aborted rats developed breast cancers at a much higher rate when given...deliveries before 32 weeks also double breast cancer risk because the breasts are left with more lobules where breast cancers can start.4 An abortion can be...

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Magazine Articles on: breast cancer

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Good News and Bad News about Breast Cancer

Magazine article by Davi Plotkin; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 277, June 1996

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Breast cancer

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...had, exposing their breasts to historically unprecedented...of cells within the breast. With repeated menstrual...genetic accidents. Most cancers are believed to arise...is a precursor to cancer of the breast. If...a sample from the breast with a needle, but...naturally lumpier breasts are harder to interpret...Yet the specter of breast cancer remains...the disease. Breast cancer is as diverse as the...different guises. Some cancers seem to erupt out...
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What Pharmacists Need to Know about Breast Cancer

Magazine article by John S. Williamson, Christy M. Wyandt; Drug Topics, Vol. 146, March 4, 2002

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Breast cancer, Continuing education, Pharmacists, Prescription drugs, United States

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...node-positive cancers may vary greatly...Mechanisms by which breast cells process estrogen...descriptors of breast cancer. Hormone or estrogen...types of early breast cancers. Surgery offers...of many types of cancer, but, unfortunately...for patients with breast cancer still in its early...risk factors whose cancers are node-negative...
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Breast Cancer

Magazine article by Carol Lewis; FDA Consumer, Vol. 33, July 1999

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Breast cancer--Care and treatment, Herceptin (Medication)--Evaluation, Nolvadex (Medication)--Evaluation, Taxotere (Medication)--Evaluation, Xeloda (Medication)--Evaluation

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Breast Cancer. by Carol Lewis Better...skin changes on one of her breasts compelled her to seek a second...United States learns she has breast cancer. It is the most common cancer among women, next to skin cancers, and is second only to lung...
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Targeting Breast Cancer

Magazine article by Patrick Perry; The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 279, November 2007

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Breast cancer, Cell cycle, Clinical trials, Genetic research, Genetic testing, Medical screening, Mortality, Risk factors, Tumors, Womens health

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...benign findings in the breast that an MRI detects...interpreted as suspicious for cancer. Post: Is breast self...women detect breast cancers during a breast self...vasculature within the cancer. Post: Is tamoxifen...probably cured more breast cancers than any other breast cancer treatment. We now know...
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Breast Cancer: Complacency the Enemy of Cure

Magazine article by Marian Segal; FDA Consumer, Vol. 25, July 1991

Subjects:

Breast cancer--Risk factors, Breast examination--Medical examination, Mammography

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...mothers or sisters have had breast cancer have two to three times the...if the relative developed breast cancer before menopause or if both breasts were involved. Nevertheless...to 15 percent of women with breast cancer have a family history...

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Newspaper Articles on: breast cancer

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New Message of Hope for Breast Cancer Sufferers; OCTOBER Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the Message of Hope Is That Treatment and Survival Rates Are Improving, as LISA SALMON Discovers

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), October 4, 2010

Subjects:

Breast cancer--Patient outcomes, Cancer patients--Patient outcomes, Cancer research, Cancer treatment, Cancer--Care and treatment, Cancer--Research, Oncology, Experimental

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New Message of Hope for Breast Cancer Sufferers; OCTOBER Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the Message...chilling prospect that it could be cancer. While nine out of 10 people...they have. As the most common cancer in women in the UK, nearly a third of all new cancers in females are breast cancer...
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Breast Cancer May Not Change Lifespan for Older Women

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 15, 2011

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Breast cancer, Cancer research, Cancer--Research, Middle aged women, Oncology, Experimental, Women's health, Women--Health aspects

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Breast Cancer May Not Change Lifespan...long as peers without breast cancer, according to a new study...Dr. Elena Elkin, a breast cancer researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center who was not involved...study. "More of the breast cancers we find are very small and...
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Is the Breast Cancer Charity Bandwagon out of Control? It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month - and You Can't Escape the Pink Ribbons, Celebs and Stunts. but Here One Expert Asks ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 21, 2010

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Breast cancer, Charities

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...women with other cancers and other diseases...population, breast cancer makes up 4 per...whole month for breast cancer and the...consider their breasts as an extreme source...women who dont have breast cancer. And they dont have lots of other cancers and health issues...years of age. With breast cancer, the rise in incidence...slightly before other cancers, so it begins...
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Breast Cancer Hope from the Pill That Shrinks Tumours

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 6, 2010

Subjects:

Breast cancer--Drug therapy, Breast cancer--Genetic aspects, Cancer research, Cancer treatment, Cancer--Care and treatment, Cancer--Research, Cell research, Cytological research, Oncology, Experimental, Ovarian cancer--Drug therapy, Ovarian cancer--Genetic aspects

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...lives. According to the Irish Cancer Society, a small number of breast cancer cases here are caused by an...cent to ten per cent of breast cancers, the majority of breast cancers...chance of developing breast cancer by the time they are 70, research...
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Breast Cancer Curable If Treated Early Enough, Doctor Says

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 5, 2008

Subjects:

Breast cancer, Cancer treatment, Cancer--Care and treatment

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...trait to younger generations. Breast cancer and colon cancer can occur...be traced to both causes. Breast cancer is the most commonly...that are in and around the breasts. Estrogen, a hormone found...While there are more women with breast cancer today than there were...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: breast cancer

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Breast Cancer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...decrease by the mid-1990s. Breast cancers can arise in the lobes...ductal carcinoma) of the breast. Lobular carcinoma often affects both breasts. Causes Epidemiological...possibility that a woman will get breast cancer, although not all women...
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Cancer , in Medicine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...Other common types of cancer include breast cancer (in women), prostate cancer (in men), and colon cancer (see also Hodgkins disease ). The incidence of particular cancers varies around the world and sometimes...
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Mastectomy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...MASTECTOMY mastek t me, surgical removal of breast tissue, usually done as treatment for breast cancer . There are many types of mastectomy. In...mastectomies of the past (which removed not only the breast, but underlying chest muscle and lymph nodes...
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Tamoxifen

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...hormone used in the treatment of breast cancer . Introduced in 1978, tamoxifen is used to prevent recurrences of cancer in women who have already undergone...of healthy women at high risk for breast cancer showed that tamoxifen can...
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Mastitis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...tissue weakened by injury. The breast becomes swollen and painful...an abscess forms within the breast, the suckling baby must be...cystic nodules develop in the breasts, giving them a lumpy appearance...distinguish the condition from breast cancer. Another type of mastitis...

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