Article: The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation.(Book Review)

Article: Breast cancer groups unite // Ready to play `hardball' in push for more research
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 28, 1991 ;     580 words ...The decade-old breast cancer support group movement is moving...treatment for poor women. "The breast cancer organizations are no longer tea...because of the lack of progress in breast cancer," said Sharon Green, executive...

Article: Breast Cancer: The Link With Pesticides
Women & Environments International Magazine;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Introduction Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer...estimated 1.15 million women got breast cancer, and 411,000 died from it in 2002...million women alive who have had breast cancer diagnosed within the last 5 years...

Article: 60 Miles Closer to a World Without Breast Cancer.
PR Newswire;  January 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Breast Cancer 3-Day Participants Report Intent to Change...Registration is now open for the 2007 Breast Cancer 3-Day Series, a three day, 60-mile walk to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer programs. Registering in January and...

Article: Breast cancer resources
Chicago Defender;  October 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ...1. My Breast Cancer Network www.healthcentral.com/breastcancer...that features daily articles from breast cancer experts. 2. Cancer and Careers www...features the latest developments in breast cancer research. 4. Notti Wear www.nottiwear...

Article: Don't believe everything you hear about breast cancer, experts say
Daily Breeze;  October 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Make no mistake, breast cancer is a serious disease. It will...general concern of patients is that breast cancer is more lethal than it is," says...Center in San Diego. "Although breast cancer is still a very scary diagnosis...

Article: What women need to know about breast cancer ; As Breast Cancer month starts, how can we help prevent the disease? Are toxins, diet and late childbirth factors? Professor Karol Sikora debunks the myths
Belfast Telegraph;  October 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the...increase; over the past 10 years, female breast-cancer incidence rates in the UK have risen...Historically, the method of battling breast cancer, as with any other cancer, has been...

Article: What women need to know about breast cancer ; As Breast Cancer month gets underway, we ask how we can help prevent the disease. Are diet, toxins and late childbirth factors? Professor Karol Sikora debunks the myths
Belfast Telegraph;  October 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the...increase; over the past 10 years, female breast-cancer incidence rates in the UK have risen...Historically, the method of battling breast cancer, as with any other cancer, has been...

Article: Breast cancer quick facts
Winnipeg Free Press;  June 4, 2008 ;     355 words ...Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer...death among women, after lung cancer. Breast cancer is the most common cancer death for...78 per cent of women diagnosed with breast cancer in Winnipeg have caught it before it...

Article: Advances in treating early breast cancer: a new, alternative approach to breast conservation treatment involves accelerated partial breast irradiation utilizing a high-dose rate balloon catheter system.(Disease/Disorder overview)(Cover story)
JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistantss;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Breast cancer continues to occupy a prominent role...sources, often conflicting and confusing. Breast cancer touches most health care providers...current treatment approaches for early breast cancer, as well as of the promising new options...

Article: Breast cancer is disease women fear the most
South Wales Evening Post;  October 29, 2007 ;     510 words ...Breast cancer is the disease women in Wales fear most, according...survey published today. The survey carried out for Breast Cancer Campaign, the only charity that funds independent breast cancer research throughout the UK, by Ipsos MORI* found...

Article: Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Risk: What Does It Mean to Me?
American Family Physician;  October 1, 2000 ;     524 words ...What causes breast cancer? It is not known exactly what causes breast cancer, but there are certain risk factors that seem...disease. It's estimated that about 10 percent of breast cancer cases are hereditary (run in the family). In...

Article: Abortion and breast cancer: the unproven link.
The Network News;  March 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Breast cancer is of great concern to women in the...There are approximately 182,000 new breast cancer cases each year and 46,000 women die...controversial reports that a woman's risk of breast cancer is increased if she has had an abortion...

Article: Nation's glitterati have cause celebre with breast cancer: Murphy Brown told it's `doable'.(Culture, Et Cetera)
The Washington Times;  October 21, 1997 ;     700+ words ...October is Breast Cancer Month, and it seems fitting that...Rita Moreno. You have to remember breast cancer is doable. Doable is a relative...they're worth dying over. Although breast cancer has long been the stuff of specials...

Article: REAL PATIENTS REAL STORIES Though uncommon, men can get breast cancer
News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  June 16, 2008 ;     470 words ...Breast cancer is just not a woman's disease. Male breast cancer is a disease that can have potentially devastating...prior exposure to radiation or a family history of breast cancer. Symptoms of male breast cancer include lumps, changes...