Article: 100 questions & answers about breast cancer, 3d ed.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Survey Finds Women Have Many Misconceptions About Breast ...
Cancer Weekly;  November 6, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... misinformed when it comes to understanding breast cancer risk. According to the survey, nearly ... Society, the average lifetime risk for breast cancer is approximately 11%. Women who were ... also thought that the risk for getting breast cancer is greatest between the ages of 30 ...

Article: CHAIN LINK FOR A CAUSE.(retail industry's battle against ...
WWD;  October 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ...NEW YORK -- In the battle against breast cancer, there's been a national chain reaction ... which in 1994 formed the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign. With October now National Breast Cancer Awareness month, these businesses have ...

Article: Study finds no link to oral contraceptive use for women 35 and ...
Women's Health Weekly;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... lives are no more likely to develop breast cancer between the ages of 35 and 64 than ... during the reproductive years increases breast cancer risk. The women studied are members ... 35 and 64 are more likely to develop breast cancer than are younger women," said Duane ...

Article: Past Study Indicates Abortion Increases Risk of Breast ...
Nutrition Health Review;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... abortion may increase a woman's risk for breast cancer later in life by nearly one third ... analysis of 23 studies of women with breast cancer, which appeared in the October 1996 ... studies with data on 25,967 women with breast cancer and 34,977 control patients without ...

Article: Large study shows strong link between body mass and breast ...
Women's Health Weekly;  July 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... CPS-II) show an increasing risk of breast cancer with increasing body fat (determined ... adult height, and postmenopausal breast cancer," report J. M. Petrelli and associates ... body mass or height and postmenopausal breast cancer mortality." Petrelli and colleagues ...

Article: Importance of early environmental exposure ...
Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA;  August 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... an impact on her risk of developing breast cancer later, findings from a novel study ... provided by a cohort of women with breast cancer and controls in Western New York ... showed that the women who developed breast cancer were more likely to have lived closer ...

Article: Truth Surfaces Momentarily in British Newspapers.(story that ...
National Right to Life News;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... that read "Abortion Could Cause Breast Cancer." A similar story appeared in the ... connection between induced abortion and breast cancer was expressed even more strongly in ... association between induced abortion and breast cancer is inconclusive." Yet the RCOG guideline ...