Breast cancer treatment might be speeding up the aging clock. And radiation therapy may be the potential culprit, according to a new study from researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Understanding this connection is vital as it sheds light on potential implications for patients’ long-term health and treatment decisions.  How Cancer Therapies May…

Breast cancer treatment might be speeding up the aging clock. And radiation therapy may be the potential culprit, according to a new study from researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Understanding this connection is vital as it sheds light on potential implications for patients’ long-term health and treatment decisions.  How Cancer Therapies May…

Janna Durkee, a nurse and active mother of four, was having unexplained symptoms for years, but testing always yielded normal results. After two severe allergic reactions a few months apart—one being so severe that she’d called an ambulance—she was scared. “Something is desperately wrong with me,” she remembers thinking. Mrs. Durkee had a feeling of…

The iconic pink ribbon: You would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t know what it symbolizes, and there’s a reason. Aside from skin cancers, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women and the most common cancer globally, accounting for 12.5 percent of annual diagnoses. It is a complex disease originating…

On May 9, a draft recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced that women should begin screening for breast cancer at age 40 and every other year after that. The change contrasts with their 2009 recommendation that women start screening for breast cancer a decade later, at age 50. Dr. Carol Mangione, previous…

New data from Statistics Canada shows there were far fewer people diagnosed with cancer in the first year of the pandemic even though more than 140,000 new cases were reported to the Canadian Cancer Registry (CCR) in that year. While this may sound like good news, the drastic drop in the detection rate between 2020…

British Columbia will send some cancer patients to the United States for radiation treatment starting May 29 in an effort to reduce backlogs and long wait times, says the province’s Health Minister Adrian Dix. Speaking at a press conference on May 15, Dix said breast and prostate cancer patients will be referred to one of…

Women should be screened for breast cancer starting at age 40, 10 years earlier than recommended previously, a federal panel said on May 9. The draft recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force applies to most women and stems from a desire to detect breast cancer earlier. “New and more inclusive science about breast cancer…

A personal experience with breast cancer led Pennsylvania Sen. Kim Ward to write legislation that she hopes other states will adopt. Senate Bill 8 eliminates all costs associated with breast cancer-related genetic testing and counseling, and breast MRI and ultrasounds for Pennsylvanians with high-risk conditions like dense breast tissue, personal history of breast cancer, family…

In my teens, I had terrible cramps that came every month with my periods. They were so painful that I was incapacitated for one week out of every four, making my life miserable. I went to countless doctors and specialists, who either told me to “deal with it” or prescribed medication. The drugs were so…