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Foods and Breast Cancer Survival
Healthful diets not only help prevent cancer; they also improve survival when cancer has been diagnosed. In the last issue of Good Medicine, we looked at how foods affect survival in prostate cancer. In this issue, we look at breast cancer. The first clues that foods might affect the course of breast cancer came fr |
A Natural Approach to Menopause
A Natural Approach to Menopause Every day, in hundreds of doctors’ offices, the same conversation takes place between women going through menopause and their doctors. The doctor writes out a prescription for estrogen pills or patches, saying they will replace the hormones her body ought to be making. They wil |
Section One: Approaching the Victim of Partner Abuse
Signs of Abuse: What Physicians Should Look For Intervention Domestic Violence Education in the Medical Curriculum |
Endometriosis
Endometriosis Many women experience menstrual pain, and one of its common causes is endometriosis. In this condition, some of the lining cells from the inside of the uterus end up in the wrong place. They are attached to the ovaries, intestinal tract, bladder, or elsewhere. And just as the cells inside the uterus |
The Verdict Goes against HRT
In July, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), which was studying the effects of combined estrogen and progestin use in postmenopausal women, was halted. It ended three years early after researchers observed an increased risk of breast cancer, potentially deadly blood clots, strokes, and heart disease in wom |
Are Federal Dietary Guidelines Racially Biased?
The federal dietary guidelines that form the blueprint for school lunches and virtually all other nutrition programs have evolved only very slowly since the first food guides were published in 1916. In spite of the advances in nutrition knowledge that have occurred over the past eight decades, the g |
Soy and Your Health
Soy and Your Health Soy foods have recently enjoyed increasing popularity. Soy foods include soybeans (also called edamame) and any other foods made from soybeans, including soymilk, tofu, tempeh, miso, and vegetarian meat and dairy substitutes, like soy meats and soy cheeses. Like most other plant foods, the most |
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ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION Meet Stan… Stan, short for Standard Man, is a new Human Patient Simulator helping medical and nursing students learn how to treat dozens of illnesses without harming patients or animals. Part dummy and part computer, the life-size model is so realistic it can |
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OBESITY Meat-Eaters Gain Weight A new study confirms that meat-eating encourages weight gain. Researchers from the American Cancer Society studied 79,236 young and middle-aged men and women, measuring their diets in 1982 and again in 1992. Those who ate more than three servings of meat per week were mu |
Cancer Project: The News You Need
Flax Seeds Shrink Tumors A Canadian study put flax seeds to the test for shrinking breast cancer tumors. Two groups of postmenopausal women were assigned to eat a muffin made with 25 grams of flax seed oil or a muffin without, every morning. The majority of women consuming flax seed muffins had |
Diet Changes Boost Breast Caner Survival: The WiNS and WHEL Studies
Over the years, many studies have suggested that cancer patients who adopt a more healthful diet are more likely to survive. Two new studies prove it. The Women’s Intervention Nutrition Study (WINS), sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, followed 2,437 women who had previously been treated for breast |
Hormone Replacement: The Risk of HRT
Hormone Replacement: The Risk of HRT The New England Journal of Medicine of June 15, 1995, reported that hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of breast cancer.1 This was not news to most doctors. But many have continued to prescribe hormones because they feel that the benefits to the heart and bones outwe |
Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health
Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health World-renowned figures as diverse as philosophers Plato and Nietzsche, political leaders Benjamin Franklin and Gandhi, and pop icons Paul McCartney and Bob Marley have all advocated a vegetarian diet. Science is also on the side of v |
Cancer Project: The News You Need
Double Hormone Replacement Therapy May Increase Breast Cancer Risk Women who take both estrogen and progestin for symptoms of menopause may increase their risk for breast cancer. While estrogen alone increases breast cancer risk by 1 percent for every year of use, adding progestin (synthetic deri |
Cancer Project: The News You Need
Taxol Improves Survival in Advanced Breast Cancer Women with metastatic breast cancer have better survival rates and fewer side effects when treated with Taxol (paclitaxel), instead of a standard chemotherapy combination of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil, and prednisone (CMFP), accordi |
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