Download or read book The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Breast Cancer written by Sat Dharam Kaur and published by Robert Rose. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the risk of developing breast cancer, many women still have a limited knowledge of its causes and prevention. The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Breast Cancer uses the most recent research studies and clinical evidence to explain the causes of breast cancer and techniques for its prevention. Some of the topics covered are: Comprehensive explanations for the causes of breast cancer -- hereditary, hormonal, environmental Identifiable environmental risks Self help detoxification programs, diet plans and herbal recommendations Natural medicine strategies which complement conventional medical treatments and promote recovery Psychological support Protective factors are highlighted and valuable exercises and worksheets for breast care are included, such as The Breast Health Balance Sheet, an extensive questionnaire that helps to determine risk factors. Written in an empathetic and accessible style, The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Breast Cancer is an excellent resource for women seeking breast cancer information.
Download or read book Environment and Breast Cancer written by Jose Russo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast cancer is a complex disease caused by multiple environmental and lifestyle factors interacting with genetic susceptibility across the life span. Therefore, environmental factors are of intense interest to both researchers and community members, including women with breast cancer. There is not adequate literature that addresses this issue comprehensively from epidemiological, experimental, and translational research perspective. This book is aiming to fill this gap by gathering chapters from the most recognized experts in the field of breast biology and cancer with special interests in environmental issues.
Download or read book The Breast Cancer Wars written by Barron H. Lerner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a superb medical and cultural history of our century-long battle with breast cancer. Revisiting the past, Lerner argues, can illuminate and clarify the dilemmas confronted by women with--and at risk for--the disease. Writing with insight and compassion, Lerner tells a compelling story of influential surgeons, anxious patients and committed activists. There are colorful portraits of the leading figures, ranging from the acerbic Dr. William Halsted, who pioneered the disfiguring radical mastectomy at the turn of the century to George Crile, Jr., the Cleveland surgeon who shocked the medical establishment by "going public" with his doubts about mastectomy, to Rose Kushner, a brash journalist who relentlessly educated American women about breast cancer. Lerner offers a fascinating account of the breast cancer wars: the insistent efforts of physicians to vanquish the "enemy"; the fights waged by feminists and maverick doctors to combat a paternalistic legacy that discouraged decision-making by patients; and the struggles of statisticians and researchers to generate definitive data in the face of the great risks and uncertainties raised by the disease. As easy as it is to demonize male physicians, the persistence of the radical mastectomy and other invasive treatments has had as much to do with the complicated scientific understandings of breast cancer as with sexism. In Lerner's hands, the fight against breast cancer opens a window on American medical practice over the last century: the pursuit of dramatic cures with sophisticated technologies, the emergence of patients' rights, the ethical and legal challenges raised by informed consent, and the limited ability of scientific knowledge to provide quick solutions for serious illnesses. A searching and profound work on an emotionally charged issue, The Breast Cancer Wars tells a story that remains of vital importance to modern breast cancer patients, their families and the clinicians who strive to treat and prevent this dreaded disease.
Download or read book Living Downstream written by Sandra Steingraber and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published more than three decades after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, this book offers a critique of current thinking on cancer and its causes. It argues that the evidence has been wilfully ignored, and that the environment is still being poisoned. Throughout her study, the author weaves two stories - of Rachel Carson and her battle to be heard and of her own cancer of the bladder, which she traces back to agricultural and industrial contamination.
Download or read book A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health written by Merrill Singer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. Features the latest ethnographic research from around the world related to the multiple impacts of the environment on health and of societies on their environments Includes contributions from international medical anthropologists, conservationists, environmental experts, public health professionals, health clinicians, and other social scientists Analyzes the conditions of cultural and social transformation that accompany environmental and ecological impacts in all areas of the world Offers critical perspectives on theoretical and methodological advancements in the anthropology of environmental health, along with future directions in the field
Download or read book Breast Imaging written by Christoph I. Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast Imaging presents a comprehensive review of the subject matter commonly encountered by practicing radiologists and radiology residents in training. This volume includes succinct overviews of breast cancer epidemiology, screening, staging, and treatment; overviews of all imaging modalities including mammography, tomosynthesis, ultrasound, and MRI; step-by-step approaches for image-guided breast interventions; and high-yield chapters organized by specific imaging finding seen on mammography, tomosynthesis, ultrasound, and MRI. Part of the Rotations in Radiology series, this book offers a guided approach to breast imaging interpretation and techniques, highlighting the nuances necessary to arrive at the best diagnosis and management. Each chapter contains a targeted discussion of an imaging finding which reviews the anatomy and physiology, distinguishing features, imaging techniques, differential diagnosis, clinical issues, key points, and further reading. Breast Imaging is a must-read for residents and practicing radiologists seeking a foundation for the essential knowledge base in breast imaging.
Download or read book Environmental Contributors to Breast Cancer written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breast Cancer the Facts written by Christobel M. Saunders and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise and accessible, Breast Cancer: The Facts guides the newly-diagnosed breast cancer patient through what they can expect to encounter on their journey. Updated to include new treatment options, and more information for the patient's family and friends, this is an essential yet approachable guide.
Download or read book The Ecology of Breast Cancer written by Ted Schettler and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ecology of Breast Cancer: the Promise of Prevention and the Hope for Healing looks broadly and deeply into the origins of breast cancer and some of the factors that influence recurrence and progression after initial treatment. It integrates an extensive amount of material from diverse sources. The analysis finds that interactions among many features woven into the fabric of our individual, family, and community lives create conditions that make breast cancer more or less likely. Thinking about this as a design problem helps us identify multi-level interventions that will reduce risk and improve outcomes after diagnosis.Preventing breast cancer and reducing recurrences requires measures that confront the systemic roots of the disease. Generally-accepted individual risk factors are important, but they simply do not explain why many people develop the disease. The food system, many aspects of the built and occupational environments, and pervasive hazardous environmental chemicals also contribute, and they cannot be addressed by individuals alone. The book briefly discusses known risk factors for breast cancer, including family and personal history, genetic susceptibility, early puberty, late menopause, late age of first child or having no children, dense breast tissue, chest irradiation, current use of oral contraceptives, combination hormone therapy, cigarette smoking, and alcohol consumption. It goes on to explore what we know about other variables, their interactions, and the importance of taking a life course approach, since breast biology and later risk of breast cancer can be influenced by conditions experienced during fetal development, infancy, childhood, and adolescence as well as adulthood. The first section of the book proposes that a systems perspective or an ecological framework is best suited for studying the origins of breast cancer and designing interventions intended to prevent it and improve outcomes following treatment. A second section reviews numerous studies addressing the roles of nutrition, physical activity, environmental chemicals, vitamin D, electromagnetic fields, shift work, and stress. Examples of interactions among these variables show the value of a systems-based approach to research and interventions. Section three synthesizes this information and identifies practical opportunities for individuals, health care professionals, public health officials, community planners, businesses, schools, governments, and farmers to help reduce the burden of this disease. Biomedical scientists and clinicians have made enormous advances in treating breast cancer in recent decades. Improved outcomes are likely due to combinations of earlier diagnosis, better understanding of cellular pathology, and refined, targeted therapeutic interventions. For many people with the disease, adding weight control, dietary interventions, exercise, stress reduction, and social support to their initial therapy has not only improved the quality of their lives but also reduced the risk of recurrence. A public health perspective widens the lens to look at breast cancer patterns in populations and offers additional insights into prevention and treatment. An ecological framework accommodates both individual and public health points-of-view and adds new science. It expands the ways we can study and address this disease. Finally, applying the ecological framework more widely to other complex disorders, including other kinds of cancer, diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular disease, learning disabilities, cognitive decline, and dementia, is likely to improve our understanding of their origins and point to better strategies for prevention and treatment. Changes in diet and the food system, the built environment, social environment, and reductions in hazardous chemical exposures designed to address breast cancer will help reduce the burden of many of these as well.
Download or read book Cancer Evolution written by Charles Swanton and published by Perspectives Cshl. This book was released on 2017 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tumor progression is driven by mutations that confer growth advantages to different subpopulations of cancer cells. As a tumor grows, these subpopulations expand, accumulate new mutations, and are subjected to selective pressures from the environment, including anticancer interventions. This process, termed clonal evolution, can lead to the emergence of therapy-resistant tumors and poses a major challenge for cancer eradication efforts. Written and edited by experts in the field, this collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine examines cancer progression as an evolutionary process and explores how this way of looking at cancer may lead to more effective strategies for managing and treating it. The contributors review efforts to characterize the subclonal architecture and dynamics of tumors, understand the roles of chromosomal instability, driver mutations, and mutation order, and determine how cancer cells respond to selective pressures imposed by anticancer agents, immune cells, and other components of the tumor microenvironment. They compare cancer evolution to organismal evolution and describe how ecological theories and mathematical models are being used to understand the complex dynamics between a tumor and its microenvironment during cancer progression. The authors also discuss improved methods to monitor tumor evolution (e.g., liquid biopsies) and the development of more effective strategies for managing and treating cancers (e.g., immunotherapies). This volume will therefore serve as a vital reference for all cancer biologists as well as anyone seeking to improve clinical outcomes for patients with cancer.
Download or read book Advancing the Science of Implementation Across the Cancer Continuum written by David A. Chambers (DPhil) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many effective interventions have been developed with the potential to significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer, they are of no benefit to the health of populations if they cannot be delivered. In response to this challenge, Advancing the Science of Implementation across the Cancer Continuum provides an overview of research that can improve the delivery of evidence-based interventions in cancer prevention, early detection, treatment, and survivorship. Chapters explore the field of implementation science and its application to practice, a broad synthesis of relevant research and case studies illustrating each cancer-focused topic area, and emerging issues at the intersection of research and practice in cancer. Both comprehensive and accessible, this book is an ideal resource for researchers, clinical and public health practitioners, medical and public health students, and health policymakers.
Download or read book External Field and Radiation Stimulated Breast Cancer Nanotheranostics written by Nanasaheb D. Thorat and published by Institute of Physics Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nano drug-delivery systems responding to cellular local stimuli, such as pH, temperature and reductive agent's activation, i.e. enzymes, could effectively provide passive-mode desirable release but fail in disease treatment following the biological rhythms of brain tumor. This book is a compilation of research development lead by expert researchers and it establishes a single reference module. It addresses, for the first time, all translational aspects and clinical perspectives of physically stimulated breast-cancer nanotheranostics from a wide-ranging and multidisciplinary perception providing unrivalled and comprehensive knowledge in the field.
Download or read book The Family and Ecological Attributes of Breast Cancer Experience and Life Satisfaction Among Chinese American Families written by Tzu I. Tsai and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pink Ribbon Blues written by Gayle A. Sulik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry and analyzes the social impact on women living with breast cancer -- the stereotypes and the stigmas.
Download or read book Poisoned Profits written by Philip Shabecoff and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this shocking and sobering book, two fearless journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. In the tradition of Silent Spring, Poisoned Profits is a landmark investigation, an eye-opening account of a country that prizes money over children’s health. With indisputable data, Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff reveal that the children of baby boomers–the first to be raised in a truly “toxified” world–have higher rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer, autism, and other serious illnesses than previous generations. In piercing case histories, the authors identify the culprit as corporate pollution. Here are the stories of such places as Dickson, Tennessee, where babies were born with cleft lips and palates after landfill chemicals seeped into the water, and Port Neches, Texas, where so many graduates of a high school near synthetic rubber and chemical plants contracted cancer that the school was nicknamed “Leukemia High.” The danger to our children isn’t just in the outside world, though. The Shabecoffs provide evidence that our homes are now infested with everything from dangerous flame retardants in crib mattresses to harmful plastic softeners in teething rings to antibiotics and arsenic in chicken–additives that are absorbed by growing and physically vulnerable kids as well as by pregnant women. Compounding the problem are chemical corporations that sabotage investigations and regulations, a government that refuses to police these companies, and corporate-hired scientists who keep pertinent secrets massaged with skewed data of their own. Poisoned Profits also demonstrates how people are fighting back, whether through grassroots parents’ groups putting pressure on politicians, the rise of “ecotheology” in the pulpits of formerly indifferent churches, or the new “green chemistry” being practiced in labs to replace bad elements with good. The Shabecoffs also include helpful tips on reducing risks to children in how they eat and play, and in how parents clean and maintain their homes. Powerful, unflinching, and eminently readable, Poisoned Profits is a wake-up call that is bound to inspire talk and force change.
Download or read book Theory at a Glance written by Karen Glanz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Turning Off Breast Cancer written by Daniella Chace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Three-Step Program to Nourish, Restore, and Detoxify Your Body A cutting-edge guide to preventing and healing from breast cancer, with 50 recipes There are more than 230,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer diagnosed in the US every year and, despite better screening practices and advances in medicine, 40,000 US women die every year from breast cancer. In addition, there are 3 million breast cancer survivors in the US who need this information to avoid recurrence. Breast Cancer Protocol: The Three-Step Program for Healing and Prevention is a comprehensive and targeted program for using nutrition and detoxification to prevent or heal from breast cancer. Rooted in the science of epigenetics—how gene expression is affected by nutrients and toxins—readers learn how to restore their own genes via diet, supplementation, and detoxification. The three steps are: Nourish: This section recommends more than 100 foods to combat breast cancer and includes supplement recommendations for pre- and post-menopausal women. Restore: Learn about the cutting-edge genetic tests that identify your cancer risk and how to use your test results to determine your personal nutrition and detox needs. Detoxify: Discover how to flush out the toxins that contribute to breast cancer development and disturb cellular communication. Carefully researched and including 50 delicious recipes, Breast Cancer Protocol forges a clear path toward health and healing.
