What You Need To Know: Your doctor is recommending radiation therapy as part of a comprehensive cancer treatment program. Typically, this treatment may include surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy....
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What You Need To Know: Your doctor is recommending radiation therapy as part of a comprehensive cancer treatment program. Typically, this treatment may include surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy....
How Do You Know if One is Right for You? For many people, the term “clinical trial” invokes the idea of people subjecting themselves to medical treatments that are unproven, possibly unsafe and perhaps...
The Benefits of Physical Exercise After Breast Cancer It’s important to start exercising as soon as possible, preferably before or during the course of adjuvant treatment. The sooner you start, the less...
by Linda Wasmer Andrews You know the peaceful feeling you get from smelling fresh-baked cookies or just-cut grass. And you know the pleasure that comes from listening to a beautiful symphony or your favorite...
Chemotherapy Talk about being both a blessing and curse: Though chemotherapy is clearly an extremely important weapon in the arsenal against breast cancer, it is notorious for producing unpleasant side...
For patients who undergo chemotherapy as part of their breast cancer treatment, chances are pretty good that some, if not all, of their hair will fall out. The medical term for this condition is alopecia....
by Dianne Armitage Anyone who has had breast cancer is probably all too familiar with the one-in-eight mantra, concerning the likelihood of developing the disease during our lifetime. As survivors, it is of the utmost...
by Dianne Armitage When I was diagnosed with breast cancer back in 1996, I went through both chemotherapy and radiation. The chemo protocol used on me back then was something known as CMF. CMF is a combination...
Cancer patients generally have been well counseled about the possible side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. In some cases, however, women (or men) may be dealing with low blood counts and not thoroughly...
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is rare but very aggressive. It looks and acts differently than other breast cancers, and is more difficult to treat because it spreads quickly from the breast to the lymph...