Download or read book Stop Breast Cancer Before it Starts written by Samuel S. Epstein MD and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With pink buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken, "I'm here for the boobs" t-shirts and coffee cups, and a pink ribbon celebrity dunk tank on The Ellen Degeneres Show, a Mardi Gras culture has arisen around a deadly disease over the last decade. The highly marketed pink ribbon, criticized for being tied to pharmaceutical interests, presents breast cancer as normal and pretty in pink. Yet, the statistics of breast cancer remain the same. Expert on the preventative causes of cancer, Dr. Samuel S. Epstein has been watching the debates around breast cancer for more than four decades. He asks, with all the talk about early detection, mammograms, improved treatment, and the race for the cure, why don't we ever hear about breast cancer prevention? Dr. Epstein knows the substantial research that has directly associated many factors of daily life with the development of the disease. The steps that can be taken to prevent it are often amazingly simple, but rarely make the headlines. Here, the evidence is presented and preventative choices are carefully and accesibly outlined. In presenting this critical information that all Americans should know about, Stop Breast Cancer Before it Starts empowers women to take charge of their health and make a real difference in the fight against cancer.
Download or read book Stop Breast Cancer Before It Starts written by Samuel S. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With pink buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken, "I'm here for the boobs" t-shirts and coffee cups, and a pink ribbon celebrity dunk tank on "The""Ellen Degeneres Show," a Mardi Gras culture has arisen around a deadly disease over the last decade. The highly marketed pink ribbon, criticized for being tied to pharmaceutical interests, presents breast cancer as normal and pretty in pink. Yet, the statistics of breast cancer remain the same. Expert on the preventative causes of cancer, Dr. Samuel S. Epstein has been watching the debates around breast cancer for more than four decades. He asks, with all the talk about early detection, mammograms, improved treatment, and the race for the cure, why don't we ever hear about breast cancer prevention? Dr. Epstein knows the substantial research that has directly associated many factors of daily life with the development of the disease. The steps that can be taken to prevent it are often amazingly simple, but rarely make the headlines. Here, the evidence is presented and preventative choices are carefully and accesibly outlined. In presenting this critical information that all Americans should know about, "Stop Breast Cancer Before it Starts" empowers women to take charge of their health and make a real difference in the fight against cancer. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
Download or read book Stopping Cancer Before It Starts written by American Institute for Cancer Research and published by Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2000-04-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows an undeniable link between diet and cancer. In fact, 60 to 70 percent of cancers can be prevented by making the right choices about food, exercise, and tobacco use. Stopping Cancer Before It Starts tells you how to make simple changes in your everyday life that can radically reduce the risk of cancer. PART I: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CANCER * Separates popular myths from facts and statistics * Explains how simple lifestyle changes could prevent an estimated 375,000 cancer cases in the U.S. annually * Describes how one simple dietary adjustment could reduce cancer rates by 20 percent * Examines the most common types of cancer-from lung cancer to breast cancer-and shows the influence of diet and lifestyle factors on them PART II: CREATING A MORE CANCER-RESISTANT YOU * Shows you how to analyze your cancer risk * Reveals how lifestyle choices affect cancer * Examines the relationship between excess calorie intake and increased cancer risk PART III: THE BEST NUTRITION FOR CANCER PREVENTION * Gives the "how, what, and why" to eat for cancer prevention * Offers the most current information on vitamins, minerals, and other dietary supplements PART IV: RECIPES AND MENUS * Offers dozens of healthy and savory recipes * Includes simple menus that require little time or planning Stopping Cancer Before It Starts provides the facts you need to make the right choices to prevent cancer.
Download or read book Breasts The Owner s Manual written by Kristi Funk and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national bestseller! Breast cancer surgeon Dr. Kristi Funk offers a comprehensive and encouraging approach to breast care and breast cancer. Empower yourself with facts and strategies to understand your breasts, reduce your cancer risk, and open your eyes to interventions and treatments. Most women don’t want to hear about breast cancer unless they have it and need to make some decisions, but these days news about breast cancer—the number one killer of women ages twenty to fifty-nine—is everywhere. Chances are you know someone who has had it. But did you know that choices you make every day bring you closer to breast cancer—or move you farther away? That there are ways to reduce your risk factors? And that many of the things you’ve heard regarding the causes of breast cancer are flat-out false? Based on Dr. Kristi Funk’s experience as a board-certified breast cancer surgeon, she knows for a fact that women have the power to reduce breast cancer risk in dramatic ways. Many women believe that family history and genetics determine who gets breast cancer, but that’s not true for most people. In fact, 87 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single first-degree relative with breast cancer. This book will help you: Learn the breast-health basics that every woman should know Reduce your cancer risk and recurrence risk based on food choices and healthy lifestyle changes backed by rigorous scientific research Understand the controllable and uncontrollable risk factors for breast cancer Outline your medical choices if you're at elevated risk for or are already navigating life with breast cancer There have been few solid guidelines on how to improve your breast health, lower your risk of getting cancer, and make informed medical choices after treatment—until now. With her book available in 10 languages and in more than 30 countries, Dr. Funk is passionate about her mission of educating as many women as possible about what they can do to stop breast cancer before it starts. Praise for Breasts: The Owner’s Manual: “Dr. Funk writes Breasts: The Owner’s Manual just like she talks: with conviction, passion, and a laser focus on you.”—Dr. Mehmet Oz, Host of The Dr. Oz Show “Breasts: The Owner’s Manual will become an indispensable and valued guide for women looking to optimize health and minimize breast illness.”—Debu Tripathy, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center “Breasts: The Owner’s Manual not only provides a clear path to breast health, but a road that leads straight to your healthiest self. As someone who has faced breast cancer, I suggest you follow it.”—Robin Roberts, Co-anchor, Good Morning America
Download or read book Fulfilling the Potential of Cancer Prevention and Early Detection written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-05-07 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer ranks second only to heart disease as a leading cause of death in the United States, making it a tremendous burden in years of life lost, patient suffering, and economic costs. Fulfilling the Potential for Cancer Prevention and Early Detection reviews the proof that we can dramatically reduce cancer rates. The National Cancer Policy Board, part of the Institute of Medicine, outlines a national strategy to realize the promise of cancer prevention and early detection, including specific and wide-ranging recommendations. Offering a wealth of information and directly addressing major controversies, the book includes: A detailed look at how significantly cancer could be reduced through lifestyle changes, evaluating approaches used to alter eating, smoking, and exercise habits. An analysis of the intuitive notion that screening for cancer leads to improved health outcomes, including a discussion of screening methods, potential risks, and current recommendations. An examination of cancer prevention and control opportunities in primary health care delivery settings, including a review of interventions aimed at improving provider performance. Reviews of professional education and training programs, research trends and opportunities, and federal programs that support cancer prevention and early detection. This in-depth volume will be of interest to policy analysts, cancer and public health specialists, health care administrators and providers, researchers, insurers, medical journalists, and patient advocates.
Download or read book Trends in Breast Cancer Prevention written by Jose Russo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, with contributions from the most recognized experts in preventive strategies in breast cancer, presents the accepted as well as the novel ideas that have been introduced for the prevention of breast cancer. There is no single preventive agent that can stop the incidence of breast cancer—the malignant disease most frequently diagnosed in women of all races and nationalities. Furthermore, its incidence around the globe is increasing in industrialized countries. The worldwide incidence of breast cancer has increased 30-40% since the 1970s, reaching an excess of 1,390,000 new cases and a mortality of more than 460,000 cases in 2015. Therefore, what is needed is the development of rational strategies for the prevention of this fatal disease.
Download or read book Breast Cancer Prevention Guide written by Sandra Cabot MD and published by SCB International. This book was released on with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no other book like this that gives you a comprehensive plan to prevent breast cancer. This book is based on the latest research available from medical science. In this book you will learn the risk factors for breast cancer - and what you can do to greatly reduce your risk. This book also provides information for women who currently have breast cancer; how to improve the odds of survival and reduce the risk of recurrence. One in eight Australian and American women develop breast cancer during their lifetime. Most women feel powerless when it comes to preventing breast cancer; they believe genetics and bad luck determine who develops the disease. The truth is that only five to ten percent of breast cancer cases are due to genetics. In this book you will learn about the real risk factors for breast cancer and what you can do to greatly reduce your risk. In The Breast Cancer Prevention Guide you will learn: Mammograms are not the best method for detecting breast cancer in all women. Your body can make good estrogen and bad estrogen. Learn how to increase your bodyís production of beneficial estrogen. The importance of progesterone in protecting against breast cancer. The chemicals you come in contact with each day that are strongly implicated in causing breast cancer and how to reduce your exposure to them. Foods, herbs and nutrients with powerful anti cancer effects. Recipes and tips on how to incorporate powerful anti cancer foods into your diet.
Download or read book Keeping Abreast written by Khalid Mahmud and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast cancer will strike one out of every eight women. This book provides clear strategies to reduce the risk of breast cancer--strategies that are not only based on the author's experience as an oncologist, but also on an extensive review of the scientific literature.
Download or read book The 2 Day Diet written by Dr. Michelle Harvie and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lose weight fast with the international diet sensation. Diet two days a week. Eat a Mediterranean diet for five. The 2-Day Diet is easy to follow, easy to stick to, and clinically tested. Simply eat a low carb, high protein diet two days a week, and follow the classic Mediterranean Diet (now recognized as the gold standard in warding off heart disease) for the other five. The 2-Day Diet is designed to maximize weight loss, minimize muscle loss and keep you feeling full. It can have dramatic anti-aging and anti-cancer benefits. With this diet you can finally be slim, fit and healthy. With meal plans and 100 delicious and filling recipes. “A far more effective way to lose weight.” —Daily Mail “Put an end to 24/7 calorie counting.” —The Sun “Revolutionary and clinically proven.” —Good Housekeeping
Download or read book How to Prevent Breast Cancer written by Ross Pelton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-10-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this breakthrough book outlines the vital steps women can take to prevent breast cancer, the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer for women in the United States. Includes information on mammograms and mammography and instructions for self-examination.
Download or read book Keeping Abreast written by Khalid Mahmud and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-08-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970, one out of ten American women developed breast cancer. Now it is one out of eight - and soon it will be one out of seven. It is a disease women dread. Yet physicians, who tell patients how to avoid heart attacks, have nothing to say about the prevention of breast cancer. By the time a cancer cell in the breast grows into a diagnosable breast cancer, usually 15 to 20 years have elapsed. During this long journey, the cancer is inhibited by many factors and stimulated by others. It is possible to enhance the inhibitors and diminish the stimulators to snuff out the tiny cancer, or at least, to delay its clinical appearance. This book provides the reader clear strategies to reduce the risk of breast cancer – strategies that are based not only on my experience as an oncologist, but also on an extensive review of scientific literature. These strategies consist of simple and natural measures: things to take and things to do, with little or no use of pharmaceuticals. My dream is to share this information with all women and their doctors with the hope that we can cut down the occurrence of this horrible disease.
Download or read book The Answer to Cancer written by Carolyn Runowicz and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists are testing an arsenal of drugs that could prove to be the most potent weapons in the fight against cancer: chemopreventive drugs that can actually stop the cancer process from starting. In this urgent yet immensely hopeful book, two highly respected physicians, one of them a cancer survivor herself, report on the recent dramatic breakthroughs in combating the disease that now ranks as our nation's #1 killer. And they outline an exclusive 7-step plan for reducing one's cancer risk. Whether the goal is to avoid ever getting cancer, to arrest precancerous changes, or to prevent a recurrence, people will turn to this book for news they can use.
Download or read book The Breast Cancer Prevention Program written by Samuel S. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mayo Clinic Book of Home Remedies written by Mayo Clinic and published by Oxmoor House. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many common health problems can be treated with simple remedies you can do at home. Even if the steps you take don't cure the problem, they can relieve symptoms and allow you to go about your daily life, or at least help you until you're able to see a doctor. Some remedies, such as changing your diet to deal with heartburn or adapting your home environment to cope with chronic pain, may seem like common sense. You may have questions about when to apply heat or cold to injuries, what helps relieve the itch of an insect bite, or whether certain herbs, vitamins or minerals are really effective against the common cold or insomnia. You'll find these answers and more in Mayo Clinic Book of Home Remedies. In situations involving your health or the health of your family, the same questions typically arise: What actions can I take that are immediate, safe and effective? When should I contact my doctor? What symptoms signal an emergency? Mayo Clinic Book of Home Remedies clearly defines these questions with regard to your health concerns and guides you to choose the appropriate and most effective response.
Download or read book Digital Breast Tomosynthesis written by Alberto Tagliafico and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive description of the screening and clinical applications of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and offers straightforward, clear guidance on use of the technique. Informative clinical cases are presented to illustrate how to take advantage of DBT in clinical practice. The importance of DBT as a diagnostic tool for both screening and diagnosis is increasing rapidly. DBT improves upon mammography by depicting breast tissue on a video clip made of cross‐sectional images reconstructed in correspondence with their mammographic planes of acquisition. DBT results in markedly reduced summation of overlapping breast tissue and offers the potential to improve mammographic breast cancer surveillance and diagnosis. This book will be an excellent practical teaching guide for beginners and a useful reference for more experienced radiologists.
Download or read book Breast Cancer written by Greg Anderson and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of the Cancer Recovery Foundation presents an essential guide to facing breast cancer with a combination of healing tactics. While recovery and survival rates for breast cancer have improved, the shock and confusion that comes with a diagnosis remains overwhelming, as does choosing a plan of treatment. With so many options out there, it’s difficult to know the best option for you. This is where an integrated approach comes in. By using a variety of tools, you maximize opportunity for healing. As a recognized pioneer in the field of integrated cancer care, Greg Anderson offers critical information and advice about the major issues facing breast cancer patients. As someone who has been a cancer patient himself, he also knows the emotional turmoil and stress a diagnosis can cause. Because of this, he guides readers toward making a concrete, comprehensive recovery plan that combines nutrition, exercise, mind/body approaches, and social support along with conventional medical care. Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do offers:A guide to health and healing from one of the world’s leading wellness authoritiesAn approach to recovery that calls into question Western medicine’s tendency to overtreatAdvice for cultivating physical, emotional, and spiritual health
Download or read book Promise Me written by Nancy G. Brinker and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzy and Nancy Goodman were more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, and partners in the grand adventure of life. For three decades, nothing could separate them. Not college, not marriage, not miles. Then Suzy got sick. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977; three agonizing years later, at thirty-six, she died. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The Goodman girls were raised in postwar Peoria, Illinois, by parents who believed that small acts of charity could change the world. Suzy was the big sister—the homecoming queen with an infectious enthusiasm and a generous heart. Nancy was the little sister—the tomboy with an outsized sense of justice who wanted to right all wrongs. The sisters shared makeup tips, dating secrets, plans for glamorous fantasy careers. They spent one memorable summer in Europe discovering a big world far from Peoria. They imagined a long life together—one in which they’d grow old together surrounded by children and grandchildren. Suzy’s diagnosis shattered that dream. In 1977, breast cancer was still shrouded in stigma and shame. Nobody talked about early detection and mammograms. Nobody could even say the words “breast” and “cancer” together in polite company, let alone on television news broadcasts. With Nancy at her side, Suzy endured the many indignities of cancer treatment, from the grim, soul-killing waiting rooms to the mistakes of well-meaning but misinformed doctors. That’s when Suzy began to ask Nancy to promise. To promise to end the silence. To promise to raise money for scientific research. To promise to one day cure breast cancer for good. Big, shoot-for-the-moon promises that Nancy never dreamed she could fulfill. But she promised because this was her beloved sister. I promise, Suzy. . . . Even if it takes the rest of my life. Suzy’s death—both shocking and senseless—created a deep pain in Nancy that never fully went away. But she soon found a useful outlet for her grief and outrage. Armed only with a shoebox filled with the names of potential donors, Nancy put her formidable fund-raising talents to work and quickly discovered a groundswell of grassroots support. She was aided in her mission by the loving tutelage of her husband, restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, whose dynamic approach to entrepreneurship became Nancy’s model for running her foundation. Her account of how she and Norman met, fell in love, and managed to achieve the elusive “true marriage of equals” is one of the great grown-up love stories among recent memoirs. Nancy’s mission to change the way the world talked about and treated breast cancer took on added urgency when she was herself diagnosed with the disease in 1984, a terrifying chapter in her life that she had long feared. Unlike her sister, Nancy survived and went on to make Susan G. Komen for the Cure into the most influential health charity in the country and arguably the world. A pioneering force in cause-related marketing, SGK turned the pink ribbon into a symbol of hope everywhere. Each year, millions of people worldwide take part in SGK Race for the Cure events. And thanks to the more than $1.5 billion spent by SGK for cutting-edge research and community programs, a breast cancer diagnosis today is no longer a death sentence. In fact, in the time since Suzy’s death, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer has risen from 74 percent to 98 percent. Promise Me is a deeply moving story of family and sisterhood, the dramatic “30,000-foot view” of the democratization of a disease, and a soaring affirmative to the question: Can one person truly make a difference?
