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Pop singer Kylie Minogue's breast cancer diagnosis triggered a surge in women being screened for the disease, according to a new study. But the University of Melbourne study found the increase in testing of women at low risk of developing the cancer did more harm than good, by lowering the capacity of the system to deal with high-risk cases. The study found use of mammography and breast ultrasound procedures soared by more than 30 per cent in women aged 25 to 44, in the six months following Minogue's diagnosis. There was also a sharp rise in women aged 25 to 34 who had breast biopsies but the surge did not lead to the detection of more cases of breast cancer. The study, published this week in the International Journal of Epidemiology, used Medicare data to examine the impact of the publicity surrounding the singer's illness on breast imaging, biopsies and operations to remove breast tumours. Study leader Margaret Kelaher, of the university's Melbourne School of Populati...

A documentary about Kylie Minogue's battle with breast cancer has gone to air in Britain, showing dramatic footage of the pop star's collapse during a show in Manchester. Footage from the concert, filmed before her diagnosis, shows a distressed Minogue trying desperately not to cry as she walks the stage trying to make it through one more song. But the diminutive singer is forced backstage, where she collapses, crying, as her team try to comfort her and cool her as she lies crumpled on the floor. "I hate to let you all down but I'm just going to do one more song," Minogue, wearing a skin-tight catsuit, tells the audience. But she simply could not go on. "I was really weak, dizzy and couldn't sing," she says in the documentary White Diamond: A Personal Portrait of Kylie Minogue , which aired last night on Britain's Channel 4. "I was hyperventilating and panicking and in tears and then we stopped and there was this gap that seemed like i...

39 year old Kylie Minogue has reportedly censored parts of a fly-on-the-wall documentary tracking her comeback from breast cancer, which happened to coincide with her break-up with long term lover Olivier Martinez. Minogue censored the documentary by cutting scenes which reveal glimpses of her body after reconstructive surgery. The documentary follows the singer through her emotional return to the stage last year after she was forced to take a year off after being diagnosed with breast cancer. But the 39-year-old star has opted to remove scenes which show the physical scars following surgery. A source says, "Kylie wanted a warts-and-all documentary, but there are loads of scenes fans will never see. "She wanted to show other cancer survivors there is nothing to be ashamed of. "No scarring is visible because she had clever reconstructive surgery after the partial mastectomy to remove her cancer. But she felt it was too much and was extremely unhappy so got it chopped....

Reuter Three or more drinks a day, whether beer, wine or spirits, boost a woman's risk of breast cancer as much as smoking a pack of cigarettes, US researchers say. The relationship between alcohol and breast cancer is known but there has been little data on whether the choice of drink made a difference, they told a European cancer conference in Barcelona. In what the researchers said was one of the largest studies to investigate links between breast cancer and alcohol - found that alcohol itself and the amount a person consumed were key rather than the type of drink. "Studies have consistently linked drinking alcohol to an increased risk of female breast cancer, but until now there has been little data, most of it conflicting, about an independent role played by the choice of beverage type," Arthur Klatsky of Kaiser Permanente in California and one of the researchers said. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer killer of women, after lung cancer. It will be diagn...

Champion marathon runner Kerryn McCann has spoken publicly for the first time since being diagnosed with breast cancer, saying there's a tough battle ahead but she's determined to fight. The two-time Commonwealth Games champion and three-time Olympian, 40, is pregnant and was diagnosed with the disease two weeks ago. She has already had surgery to remove a lump from her breast and is due to start 18 weeks of chemotherapy after the birth of her third child, which is expected to be induced on September 5, Fairfax has reported. "It's worth fighting for another little baby," she told Fairfax. "I plan on fighting the cancer and other women have been through it so I can do it too." McCann said the diagnosis had been a shock. She said she had no family history of the disease she didn't think fit and healthy people would ever get cancer. "It has all happened so quickly but I think the good news is it is treatable," she said. "It's ...

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Foods that contain acrylamide are unlikely to cause breast cancer in women, according to preliminary results of a new study involving 100,000 U.S. women. The finding, the largest epidemiological study to date exploring the possible link between acrylamide and cancer in humans, was described today at the 234th national meeting of the American Chemical Society. "At levels consumed in the diet, it appears unlikely that acrylamide in foods is related to breast cancer risk," says study leader Lorelei Mucci, ScD, an epidemiologist at Channing Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. In prior work, her group also examined dietary acrylamide and risk of cancer of the colon, rectum, bladder and kidney, and similarly found no association. "Although we do not rule out that very high levels of acrylamide could cause cancer, it appears that at the levels found in the diet, it is unlikely." Natural Cancer Treatments!!! Non-toxic Heal...

So many times we had to learn from the tragedy that befalls others and make some checks on ourselves. That’s is the case with ABC "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts who has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will be undergoing surgery Friday. Report on her illness reveals: “I never thought I'd be writing this ... I have breast cancer. It all started a few weeks ago. We had gotten the news that our dear colleague and friend, Joel Siegel, had passed away and we began preparing for our special tribute show for him. I did a piece about Joel's courageous battle with cancer reporting on the way my friend had lived his life and been such a successful advocate for the importance of early cancer screenings. That very night when I went to bed, I did a self breast exam and found something that women everywhere fear: I found a lump.” This is a lesson for all especially when its possible to find out these things ourselves. So in situation like this it necessary to go ...

Fermín Apezteguia The health of women reaching menopause is principally threatened by three illnesses: cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and breast cancer. The document presented by the Spanish specialists in Amsterdam contains an innovative proposal to help reduce the number of women who develop breast cancer following the menopause. It is called chemoprevention, and forms part of a series of initiatives aimed at containing the advance of this disease. The idea is to treat post-menopausal women who have a high risk of breast cancer with drugs. So who are the women in this risk group? Not, as one might expect, women whose families have a history of the disease, but those with other risk factors such as having had their first period at an early age, late menopause, a first pregnancy at an advanced age or a history of tumours. In Spain, the number of such women could be two million. At the moment, this post-menopausal treatment is still only an idea, although internat...

It may not seem so at the time, but women who suffer through morning sickness during their pregnancies actually may be fortunate. Those women may have a 30 percent lower risk of developing breast cancer later in life than mothers-to-be who experience nine nausea-free months, a new study by epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo suggests. "Although the exact mechanism responsible for causing nausea and vomiting during pregnancy has yet to be pinpointed, it likely is a result of changing levels of ovarian and placental hormone production, which may include higher circulating levels of a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin," said David Jaworowicz, Jr., first author on the study. "In vitro studies have shown that this hormone possesses several activities that have potential protective effects against cancer cells," said Jaworowicz, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social Preventive Medicine in UB's School of Public Health and Health Profession...

Researchers from Eli Lilly & Company and the Phoenix-based Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today announced finding a novel recurring mutation of the gene AKT1 in breast, colorectal and ovarian cancers. The altered form of AKT1 appears to cause tumor cell proliferation and may play a role in making cells resistant to certain types of therapies. The findings are reported in an advance online publication (AOP) of the journal Nature. The PI3-Kinase/AKT pathway is among the most commonly activated cellular pathways in human cancers and members of this pathway are among the most frequently targeted for new cancer drug discovery efforts. Activation of this pathway results in cancer cell growth and cell survival. Although AKT1 is central to pathway activation, its role in cancer has been that of an intermediary between mutated upstream regulatory proteins and downstream survival signaling proteins. This is the first evidence of direct mutation of AKT1 in human cancer tumor...

New research suggests that the timing of when a woman receives the breast cancer drug Herceptin can influence its effect on her heart. Herceptin (trastuzumab) can be a powerful cancer suppressor for certain women, although its cardiovascular side effects are known. Now, Canadian research suggests that giving the drug concurrently with chemotherapy carries less cardiac risk than giving it after the chemo. The study, which is published in the July 5 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine , underlines the fact that patients "need to have proper cardiac monitoring" while on Herceptin, said one outside expert, Dr. Edith Perez, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. The new findings are similar to those found in clinical trials that compared the two treatment approaches, added the study's lead researcher Dr. Heather L. McArthur, now a special fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. "It's reassuring that the resu...

Keweenaw Memorial Medical Center recently upgraded their mammography screening from film to digital. Radiologists are now able to detect breast cancer better than they could before. With digital mammography imaging, the darkroom is eliminated and the breast images are captured and read on a computer, KMMC Diagnostic Imaging Director Gordon Rintala said. The radiologist can manipulate the computer image with brightness, contrast and magnification, which allows for earlier and improved detection of breast cancers, he said. “It’s the biggest breakthrough in mammography,” Rintala said. The radiologist just found his first cancer that he wouldn’t have found with film. “That’s what it’s all about,” he said. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women between the ages of 15 and 54, and the second cause of cancer deaths in women 55 to 74, according to a Fuji-film Medical Systems document. Early detection through mammography is the most promising approach for reducing the toll ...

While illnesses know no discrimination among the various races they afflict, a study suggests that African-American women who feel they’ve been victims of racial discrimination are more likely than their peers to develop breast cancer. The study, which followed 59,000 African-American women for six years, found that those who reported more incidents of racial discrimination had a higher risk of breast cancer. Past studies have suggested that over time, perceived racial discrimination can take a toll on a person’s health. A possible explanation is that unjust treatment serves as a source of chronic stress, which itself has been linked to poorer physical health. In the current study, women were asked how often they faced “everyday” discrimination, like receiving poorer service than other people at stores, or feeling that people are “afraid” of them or act superior to them. They were also asked whether they’d ever been treated unjustly on the job, in trying to get housing, or by the p...

Beautiful breast enhances the beauty of women. If a woman is having a normal proportionate breast then no doubt she looks attractive and gorgeous. But it has been found that in lots of women the breast lacks proper size and shape disrupting her personality and beauty. Below are the 4 step procedure of breast massage that will help you increasing the size and maintaining its proper shape their by enhancing the beauty. 1. With the help of your fingers gently smooth away from nipple. The pressure should be gentle and should move directly away from the nipple. This stroke should be slow and gentle to get the maximum effect.2. Second part comprises of the gentle massage of the breast having kneading motion. This should be done by upward lift and pressing movements.3. With the hands slowly and gently twist the breast in clock wise and then anticlockwise movements. This process should be carefully done and rigorous movements can cause damage.4. With the help of both the hands apply moderate p...

There’s no one big way to reduce your risk for breast cancer, but a combination of approaches could make a difference. In recent years the statistical picture of breast cancer has brightened, thanks to early detection and advances in treatment. More tumors are being caught at an early stage; the rise in incidence of the disease has slowed; and the death rate has dropped. Nevertheless, breast cancer is still the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and the second most likely (after lung cancer) to take their lives. Data aside, breast cancer looms large in our health concerns because most of us know it personally. Some of us have had the disease ourselves, and others have experienced it through friends or relatives. Particularly unsettling is its seeming randomness: Nothing seems to explain why one woman develops breast cancer and another doesn’t. Granted, family history and certain gene mutations can substantially increase risk. But such factors aren’t involved in most...