In Gulf, battling breast cancer stigma
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - One Saudi woman ignored the cancer growing in her breast for fear of seeing a male doctor. One was summarily divorced on the mere suspicion she had the disease, while a third was dragged away from a mammogram machine - the technicians were men.
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Better detection and treatment are helping to reduce death from breast cancer in America, but poor, rural and minority women - especially Native Americans - face barriers that keep them from taking advantage of cancer screenings that could potentially
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SINGAPORE : You may have seen some cars with pink ribbons on the roads on Sunday; it was an event to mark the end of Breast Cancer Awareness month.
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OCTOBER has been Breast Cancer Awareness Month and a huge, well-meaning publicity machine lurched into action. Armies of eager celebrities were marshalled, trotting down catwalks and posing for posters.
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This year marks 20 years of progress for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, educating women about breast cancer detection, diagnosis and treatment.
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BREAST cancer will come under the spotlight during a free health awareness evening being held on Monday at 7pm at the International Hospital of Bahrain (IHB), Budaiya Road.
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WASHINGTON - Like every October in the United States, pink ribbons are popping up everywhere: pinned to shirts, coat lapels, and on a myriad of products, all with the alleged goal of raising money to fight breast cancer.
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Breast cancer is a major concern for women of all ages, ethnicities and income brackets. According to Thebreastcancersite.com, a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes
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Proportion of breast cancer patients who undergo unnecessary double mastectomies increases.
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Women who are obese when they are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer are at a greater risk of dying of their disease than women of normal weight.
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Hormone replacement therapy, breast surgery and a low body weight all make it harder to detect breast cancer, scientists have discovered.
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Natie Hennelly and Nita Vaughn are ordinary women who&#39;ve fought an ordinary disease: breast cancer. That&#39;s why they were among the kickoff speakers at yesterday&#39;s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Byrd Park.
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Brenda Humphrey recalls that when her older sister Judy Houston was diagnosed with breast cancer, &quot;It was like a dark cloud in the middle of our family.
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THE Malaysian Oncological Society (MOS) will be launching its first nationwide breast cancer awareness campaign, Care for Your Bosom Buddies, in October.
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Elizabeth Edwardsâ breast cancer carries two messages to American women, doctors say: Breast cancer attacks the well-known and unknown alike, and early detection remains the best defense.
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WHEELING, WV -- According to the American Cancer Society, about 215,990 women in the United States will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2004.
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A new way to accurately predict how individual breast cancer patients will react to the anticancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin) has been identified by researchers at the Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston.