Postmenopausal

Did you know that excess weight is associated with an increased risk of cancer? The Body Mass Index, or BMI, is an estimate of human body fat and is based on a person's height and weight. An...

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 A new blood test could catch ovarian cancer in its earliest, and most treatable, stage — according to a new study. The new method was devised by...

>>> DR. HODA ANTON-CULVER: Well, obesity affects lots of things in the body and obesity at different ages affects the hormone level in a woman’s body, so obesity premenopausally...

Craig Steinmaus: Okay. So your brilliant instructor has asked me to come in and talk about retrospective cohort studies. Supposedly you guys have already talked about a couple of study designs,...

>>> DR. JAY K. HARNESS: The Oncotype DX test is appropriate for a newly diagnosed woman with early stage breast cancer whose tumor is estrogen receptor-positive and lymph...

"Vegetables Versus Breast Cancer" What new developments are there in the battle against breast cancer? Well, most breast tumors are estrogen receptor positive, meaning that they...

A very important study from the Institute of “Medicine of The National Academies” was released in December of 2011. This important study was funded by the “Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure.” We...

The revelations about Angelina Jolie undergoing preventative mastectomies, has stirred up a great deal of interest in the whole are of breast cancer, its diagnosis and treatment and all of the things...

>>>Dr. Margileth: When tamoxifen was first developed in the early 80s it replaced removal of the ovaries as a hormone manipulation for the treatment of breast cancer. The initial...

For many women, surviving breast cancer isn't the end of the journey. A lot of survivors take aromatase inhibitors to reduce the risk of relapse, which can have painful side effects. But new...