This blog aims to increase awareness about breast cancer and to invigorate hope among those diagnosed with it. Feel free to tell us what you think of this initiative.
Here is a list of books on breast cancer covering symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, reconstruction, emotional issues and follow-up care. If you would like to recommend a particular book that you have found helpful, we would be very happy to add it to our list.
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Cancer itself is not contagious so it cannot spread from one person to another.It is absolutely fine to touch and spend time with someone who has it.However,certain contagious viruses like human papillomavirus (HPV) and hepatitis C can lead to the development of cancer.HPV is a sexually transmitted disease which can cause cervical cancer and hepatitis C which gets transmitted through sexual intercourse can cause liver cancer.
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The answer is yes….Maharishi Amrit Kalash (MAK), an Ayurvedic herbal supplement has been found to help reduce the lethal side effects of chemotherapy which is offered as a cancer treatment.
The patients who are on chemotherapy suffer from various side effects including tremendous weight loss, a general state of weakness, loss of appetite, irregular menstrual periods and many go bald. Despite all these dangerous side effects the possibility of complete cure makes chemotherapy essential.To control chemotherapy-related side effects,doctors have been trying various drugs.However they themselves have been associated with lots of side effects.In recent months, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has done some case studies on Maharishi Amrit Kalash and has concluded that it does address most of the side effects of chemotherapy without any further harmful effects.It offers a lot more protection than any other antioxidant substances such as vitamin C or E.
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It has been an unanimously accepted and well researched fact that breast feeding reduces the chances of breast cancer in young mothers.
As there was no scientific evidence that this is also the case in older mothers, many older women do not consider in their decision to breastfeed their babies. This is not the case anymore.
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The Windows Live Messenger team has come up with an unique charitable initiative where you can help raise money for various causes, including breast cancer research and awareness campgains, by… just chatting.
This is how it works, you only have to download the latest version of Windows Live Messenger and add to your display name the code of the charitable organization you wish to donate. Once done, a portion of ad revenue that MSN would earn from your chat usage will be donated to charity chosen by you.
There is choice of 9 charitable organizations each of them among the leading in their cause, these include Susan G. Komen For The Cure which has been working intensively in breast cancer cure research as well as awareness spreading campaigns. The other 8 institutions include big names like UNICEF, American Red Cross, stopglobalwarming.org and National Aids Fund.
So what are you waiting for? Download the software on the official Live Messenger Website.
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Kylie Minogue has been everyone’s sweetheart since the start. Her
claim to fame in Australia was the sitcom Neighbours. Her music career got the boost with the popular and very catchy music video “Locomotion” which, following which Kylie skyrocketed in the music world, did some movie roles and was one of ’sweetheart-celebs’ throughout the late 80s and 90s.
While in Melbourne on her ambitious greatest hits tour Showgirl she was diagonised with breast cancer. The tour was cancelled but the fans were extremely supportive of her.
She received immense media attention and popular support, including from the then prime minister of Australia, John Howard. Media and fans began to congregate outside the Minogue residence in Melbourne, the Victorian Premier Steve Bracks had to warn the media and fans against disrupting the Minogue family’s privacy rights.
Minogue underwent surgery on 21 May 2005 at the private Catholic Cabrini Hospital in Malvern followed by intense chemotherepy in France.
The Showgirl tour resumed on November 11, 2006; she is said to have said she was “fashionably late” by 18 months 
Her children’s book, The Showgirl Princess, written during her period of convalescence, was published in October 2006, and her perfume, “Darling”, was launched in November. On her return to Australia for her concert tour, she likened her cancer battle and chemotherapy to experiencing a nuclear bomb, and said that she is determined to resume her career. She is said to have collaborated with Boy George on a song called “Ready” and had been working on a new album, scheduled for release in late 2007.
We wish Miss Minogue a wonderful life ahead.
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MammaPrint - A gene test designed to predict chances of reoccurence of breast cancer in women already once diagonized with it - today got formal approval from Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of USA.
Although this is not the first time that such a test has been designed, this is the first one to get the official nod from FDA.
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New Scientist magazine recenty reported about experiments using a little known compound called Dichloroacetate (a.k.a. DCA) conducted by University of Alberta and its success in killing breast, brain and lung cancer cells.
So is this molecule the cure to cancer?
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Rumours have long existed that piercing of nipples cause breast cancer, however no scientific link has been established between the two.
That said, it should be noted that if piercing is not done by professionals there can be several problems like infections, damage (sometimes permanent) to duct leading to problems in breast feeding, etc.
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The shortest answer is, ‘Not Really’.
Occurrence of breast cancer, or any other condition for that part, is extremely hard to trace back to one single factor, often there are several factors at work in each case. Deodorants / antiperspirants have long been rumoured to cause cancer of the breast but there have been no studies so far which have either proved or disproved this.
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