Breast Fact or Fiction? Breast Cancer Is the Number One in Cancer Mortality...
Continuing our test of common breast myths, here’s another for you. Is breast cancer the number one cause of cancer deaths among women? Actually, it’s not. Breast cancer is NOT the leading cause of...
View ArticleNew Mammography Study: Cut Through the Confusion
There’s a new study out today in the journal Cancer. It’s all over the news (yay! breast health education!). This new study further supports current recommendations by many groups (our American College...
View ArticleDiabetes and Obesity: Men, Women and Children
scaled by wader (via Flickr) Copyright Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Remember when we said that November was jam-packed with health awareness issues? We still have...
View Article2013 Year In Review
Happy New Year !!! by Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton (via Flickr) Copyright Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Whew! We’ve reached the end of 2013, our...
View ArticleNurse Carole Dickens: “The plan is to save lives.”
Sometimes the statistics and facts related to breast cancer can be numbing and overwhelming. As reported in the New York Times yesterday and previously discussed in our blog, there is a breast cancer...
View ArticleScience solves the question: Do I still need a mammogram when I’m 75?
As physicians, we rely heavily on science. Why? Because the rigor of testing and measuring can shine a light on the unknown. Because facts and figures can trump gut instincts. In short, science helps...
View ArticleIt’s National Wear Red Day!
To raise awareness of cardiovascular disease and women, today is Wear Red Day! Today, we are sporting our red – and doesn’t it make the day seem brighter? – and remembering those women in our lives...
View Article1 in 8 Women Will Get Breast Cancer… and Half of Women Aren’t Doing Anything...
This just in… one in eight women will get breast cancer in their lifetime. Not new news? Perhaps it needs repeating. Along with this: Early detection saves lives. Why the need to repeat and...
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