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Breast Cancer Lowering Risk

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Here are some tips on healthy living and early detection for breast health:

1. Exercise

Try to leave time for exercise at least 45 minutes to an hour five times a week. Exercises that do regularly will prevent diseases by improving the body’s immune system and reduce levels of estrogen and insulin.

2. Reduce alcohol
Alcohol drinking habits although in small amounts can raise the risk of breast cancer to 21 percent. You better eat fresh grape juice. Resveratrol found in grape skins are known to reduce estrogen levels in order to reduce the risk of breast cancer.

3. Consumption of vegetables

Low-fat eating style will indeed reduce the risk of breast cancer, however, polishing your protection with the habit of eating vegetables.

4. Learn the history of the family

Do you know? About 15 percent of breast cancer cases, there is a family history factors. If you have family members who suffer from this disease, then your risk of breast cancer will increase two-fold.

5. Check regularly

Women should examine the breast every three years and do a mammogram once a year when they were 40 years old.

American Pull the Use of Breast Cancer Drug

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Use of the breast cancer drug ‘Avastin’ feared cause side effects that are harmful to patients.

United interesting use of one of the world’s best-selling cancer drug as a treatment of heavy-stage breast cancer. Government health officials said there was “no evidence of the use of Avastin to prolong the lifespan of patients and its use may cause dangerous side effects.”

Commissioner of the FDA or the Agency for the American Food and Drug Administration Margaret Hamburg said that risk might include very high blood pressure, bleeding, heart attack and perforations or small holes in the parts of the body.

The FDA declared various tests by the manufacturer about the use of the drug showed only limited effect on tumor growth in patients, so the benefits are not enough to beat his side.

Drug ‘Avastin’ produced by the company Genentech, part of Roche, and the Swiss pharmaceutical company. Genentech said it was disappointed by the decision and will conduct a new trial on the drug. The company has earned revenues of about $ 1 billion per year.

Any breast cancer patients in America, said Avastin save their lives. Treatment could cost nearly 100 thousand dollars a year.

Such testimony, said Hamburg, is a “difficult decision” to revoke its use. But he said, patients “need to know for sure” about the safety and efficacy of these drugs to treat their disease. With a prescription, the drug can still be obtained to treat colon cancer, lung cancer, kidney, and brain cancer.

Chemotherapy Can Damage the Brain of Breast Cancer Patients

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Scientists warn of chemotherapy can cause brain damage in patients with breast cancer. A study revealed that breast cancer patients who have used drugs to kill cancer cells experienced a significant reduction in activity in the brain responsible for memory and planning than those who did not undergo treatment.

Researchers from Stanford University believe the findings could explain the phenomenon of “chemo brain” a term used to describe a foggy mind and memory disorders after undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

Study leader, Shelly Kesler, said, “This is great validation for the women who told their doctors” there is something wrong with me “.

Volunteers who number 25 breast cancer patients were asked to do card sorting task, which involves problem-solving skills, while their brain activity was monitored by functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI).

A total of 25 patients who had been treated with chemotherapy to make more errors on the task and a scan revealed decreased activity in the brain that is responsible for working memory, cognitive control, monitoring, and planning.

But traditional doctors dismissed these complaints and connect them with the stress caused by the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Kesler said the next step is to begin to investigate which patients are most susceptible to this problem is associated with chemotherapy, either in the form of tablets or by injection or infusion directly into a vein.

A 2008 study by the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and Harvard Medical School links the use of chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) with damage to brain cells.

The author, Mark Noble, said: “It is clear that in some patients, chemotherapy trigger degenerative conditions in the central nervous system.”