Cancer

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Death Risk
Breast Cancer

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Death Risk

May 21, 2014

Vitamin D is often in the news because most Americans get too little of it...and because deficiencies are associated with…

Breast Cancer Guide: Prevent, Detect, Treat, Recover
Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Guide: Prevent, Detect, Treat, Recover

May 21, 2014

Advances in Breast Cancer Treatment Women who have breast cancer are now living longer than they did only five years…

Breast Cancer Rehab: Vital Therapies Survivors Need But Don’t Get
Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Rehab: Vital Therapies Survivors Need But Don’t Get

Julie Silver, MD | May 20, 2014

For many breast cancer patients, the challenges don’t end on the last day of treatment. They continue to suffer from…

Vitamin D Eases Breast Cancer Drug Pain
Breast Cancer

Vitamin D Eases Breast Cancer Drug Pain

Antonella Luisa Rastelli, MD | May 20, 2014

Drugs called aromatase inhibitors, which are used to treat breast cancer, can make muscles and joints so painful and stiff…

Help for Lymphedema: Preventing Arm Swelling After Breast Cancer Surgery
Breast Cancer

Help for Lymphedema: Preventing Arm Swelling After Breast Cancer Surgery

Gwen White, PT | May 20, 2014

When a friend of mine went to her first breast cancer support group meeting, she was surprised that the conversation…

Alcohol: The Drink That’s Linked to Deadly Melanoma Skin Cancer
Skin Cancer

Alcohol: The Drink That’s Linked to Deadly Melanoma Skin Cancer

May 19, 2014

You know that cavorting in the sun without adequate protection from clothing and sunscreen is a big mistake when it…

E-Cigarettes Are Toxic, Too
Cancer

E-Cigarettes Are Toxic, Too

Steven Marcus, MD | May 16, 2014

E-Cigarettes Another Version of Dangerous In their ever-diabolical efforts to sell their dangerous wares, cigarette manufacturers and marketers have created…

Thyroid Cancer: An Epidemic of Disease…Or Overdiagnosis?
Cancer

Thyroid Cancer: An Epidemic of Disease…Or Overdiagnosis?

Juan Pablo Brito, MBBS | May 15, 2014

Put the word cancer after anything—brain cancer...pancreatic cancer...lung cancer—and it raises everyone's level of alert, especially when a particular cancer…

Unnecessary Tests for Cancer Patients
Cancer

Unnecessary Tests for Cancer Patients

Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH | May 15, 2014

Routine cancer screening is an accepted part of ongoing health maintenance -- but when a patient already has advanced cancer…

Complementary Cancer Therapies: A Guide for Patients and Survivors

Complementary Cancer Therapies: A Guide for Patients and Survivors

April 30, 2014

If you are a cancer patient or survivor, you want to do all you can to increase your odds of…

After Cancer: You Really Can Get Back to Normal

After Cancer: You Really Can Get Back to Normal

Julie Silver, MD | April 30, 2014

Until relatively recently, there was no such thing as “cancer rehab” to help cancer patients cope with the grueling and…

Mistletoe Extract Helps Fight Cancer
Cancer

Mistletoe Extract Helps Fight Cancer

Mark A. Stengler, NMD | April 30, 2014

It’s not often that there is a proven natural treatment to recommend to the approximately 12 million people in the…

Coffee Protects Against Liver Cancer

Coffee Protects Against Liver Cancer

Carlo La Vecchia, MD | April 29, 2014

The poor neglected liver. People tend to worry about their hearts, their lungs, their stomachs—but the liver gets little TLC,…

Cancer Patients Beware — Stress Can Deactivate Your Treatment

Cancer Patients Beware — Stress Can Deactivate Your Treatment

Govindasamy Ilangovan, PhD | April 29, 2014

Doctors used to encourage cancer patients to conduct their lives in whatever way they choose while undergoing treatment -- those…

Rebuilding Your Body After Cancer Treatment

Rebuilding Your Body After Cancer Treatment

Mark A. Stengler, NMD | April 29, 2014

"Cancer survivor" is the title everyone diagnosed with this terrible disease hopes to own -- and many do. According to…