The Hong Kong Breast Cancer Database of the Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation shows that the ten-year survival rate of Chinese breast cancer patients was 87.7 percent. While the ten-year survival rate of patients with the early diagnosis was almost 90 percent, the rate dropped to less than 30 percent with stage 4 cancer. The…
Breast Cancer Patients Under 40 Are Less Likely to Survive
Katie Couric Says She Has Been Treated for Breast Cancer
NEW YORK—Katie Couric said Wednesday that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent surgery and radiation treatment this summer to treat the tumor. Couric, who memorably was tested for colon cancer on the “Today” show in 2000, announced her diagnosis in an essay on her website, saying she hoped it would encourage other women…
11 Health Care Tips to Boost Your Immune System and Help Combat Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women in the United States, second only to skin cancer. It is also the type of cancer that causes the second-most deaths in women, after lung cancer. Because this unique gland is rich in blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and lymph nodes, it makes it easy…
Don’t Believe the Hype: Sugar Alcohols Like Xylitol Are Neither Sugar nor Alcohol and May Increase Your Risk of Breast Cancer
If you are on a healing path for any kind, hands down you want to avoid sugar. For the roughly 9% of the U.S. population suffering from diabetes (and the 40% of the population who are said to be “pre-diabetic”), the case against it is clear. Of course, if you are dealing with cancer, remember…
HKU Study: Antipsychotic Drugs Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer by Around 30 Percent
A research team from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong has published a study estimating that the use of antipsychotic drugs may increase the risk of breast cancer by around 30 percent. The risk is linked to the prolactin-raising properties of some of these drugs. The results of the study were…
Woman’s Cancer Erupts After COVID-19 Booster Shot
In August 2021, the first experimental COVID-19 vaccine was approved by the FDA. Now a year later, almost every day we see new evidence of how these COVID-19 shots are causing serious damage to the human body. Bonnie Eisenberg is a 73-year-old cancer survivor. Back in 2012, she was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer….
Breast Lumps Not Necessarily Cancerous, All Need Investigation: Doctors
Breast cancer is becoming the commonest cancer affecting females in the world. It accounted for 12.5 percent of cancers diagnosed in 2020 according to World Cancer Research Fund International. Knowing about breast masses and their treatment can be part of prevention before a mass becomes cancerous, doctors suggest. An “Overview of Cancers in Hong Kong” report…
Doctors Recommend Checking All Breast Lumps for Cancer
Breast cancer is becoming the commonest cancer affecting females in the world. It accounted for 12.5 percent of cancers diagnosed in 2020 according to World Cancer Research Fund International. Knowing about breast masses and their treatment can be part of prevention before a mass becomes cancerous, doctors suggest. An “Overview of Cancers in Hong Kong” report…
Australian MP Jane Garrett Dies Aged 49
Victorian Labor MP Jane Garrett has died from breast cancer at the age of 49. The former emergency services minister, an MP since 2010, was diagnosed with the disease in 2016 and announced late last year she would not stand for re-election in the 2022 state poll. Garrett, who served as member for Brunswick and…
Florida’s First Lady Gets GOP Woman of Inspiration Award
PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–Florida’s First Lady Casey DeSantis was honored by Republican women in South Florida with the Woman of Inspiration Award on June 11 in Fort Myers. The annual award, first instituted in 2016, honors Republican women for making strides in their communities and careers. The state’s first lady was recognized for her “inspiring” battle, and…
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