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Steady Weight Gain Boosts Late-Life Breast Cancer Risk

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Women who pack on the pounds over their lifetime steadily increase their risk for postmenopausal breast cancer, compared with women who maintain their weight, a new study finds.

April 23rd, 2010

Earlier studies have linked excess weight with an increased risk for breast cancer in postmenopausal women, but this is one of the few studies that traces the risk as a function of weight gain over time.

Breast cancer survivors shouldn't shun soy foods

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A new study suggests enjoying a soy latte or soy burger causes no harm - and can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence

December 10, 2009

December 8, 2009By Leslie BeckGlobe and Mail


Breast cancer survivors shouldn't shun soy foods


A new study suggests enjoying a soy latte or soy burger causes no harm - and can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence

Feeling isolated may increase cancer risk and severity

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Get out in your community!!! Meet your friends!!! Spend time with and love your family!!!

December 9, 2009

From the New York Times


written by Tiffany O'Callaghan


A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds to a growing body of research suggesting that loneliness and isolation may impact cancer risk and health outc

Antidepressant reduces effectiveness of cancer drug

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Paxil, an antidepressant commonly prescribed to women with breast cancer, can reduce or even abolish the effects of the breast-cancer drug tamoxifen.

Febrary 8th, 2010

By Sharon Kirkey, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 8, 2010Paxil, an antidepressant commonly prescribed to women with breast cancer, can reduce or even abolish the effects of the breast-cancer drug tamoxifen, increasing a woman's risk of death, Canadian researchers are warning.

When to pop your vitamin D? Any time, on its own or with food

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It makes no difference how often you pop the pills, or whether you down them with food, experts say

January 15, 2010

Martin Mittelstaedt, Environment Reporter — The Globe and Mail, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010


With sales figures showing Canadians becoming a nation of vitamin-D-pill poppers, questions are arising on the best way to take it.

Old Ideas Spur New Approaches in Cancer Fight

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Cancer is no more a disease of cells than a traffic jam is a disease of cars!

January 15, 2010

Forty Years' WarOld Ideas Spur New Approaches in Cancer Fight


By GINA KOLATA, New York Times, December 29, 2009


Mina Bissell will never forget the reception she got from a prominent scientist visiting Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked. She gave him a paper she had just published on the genesis of cancer.

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