Breast Cancer Chronicles

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• How Often Can You Get a Breast Abnormality Imaged?

  Posted Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 12:51 pm PST

  Three months is too short a time to see what may only be a subtle change; 6 months is more appropriate timing.

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• Are You Getting a Digital Mammogram?

  Posted Wed, Nov 19, 2008, 2:22 pm PST

  Digital mammography provides better-quality imaging, clearer views, and allows for electronic storage (so films can't be lost or misplaced).

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• Medicare: Annual Mammogram Quirks

  Posted Fri, Nov 14, 2008, 4:13 pm PST

  Medicare requires that your annual screening mammography be done at least 366 or more days from your last imaging study. Yes, that's right: one year…

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• Fibrocystic Disease: Clearing Up the Confusion

  Posted Fri, Oct 31, 2008, 2:12 pm PDT

  Fibrocystic breast tissue is very common and is not something that people should be freaking out about if they've been told they have "it."

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• Sugar Intake and Breast Cancer Risk

  Posted Wed, Oct 29, 2008, 10:03 am PDT

  Try to avoid eating processed sugar. Simple sugars aren't the best source of energy anyway.

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• Is There a Stress-Breast Cancer Connection?

  Posted Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 10:24 am PDT

  We know that when our immune system goes on the blink, our body's ability to ward off cancer cell production is weakened.

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• Chemotherapy: Can You Still Have Children?

  Posted Fri, Oct 24, 2008, 4:12 pm PDT

  Before you undertake chemotherapy, ask to see a gynecologist who specializes in preserving the fertility of women who have cancer.

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• Radiation and Breastfeeding

  Posted Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 9:05 am PDT

  Lumpectomies must be followed with radiation, to make certain that the remaining breast tissue is incapable of ever creating and growing breast cancer…

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• Mastectomy - Still a Scary Word?

  Posted Fri, Oct 17, 2008, 1:25 am PDT

  When all this surgical work is done well, and by a skilled team, you'd have to inspect the naked breast very closely to be able to tell that surgery…

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• Exercise: Good for Breast Cancer Patients

  Posted Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 3:02 pm PDT

  Research studies have now shown that exercise reduces the fatigue that commonly is a side effect of chemotherapy and radiation.

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