Alerts on breast cancer, November 2007

The truth about Cancer
Jamaica Gleaner, Monday | November 12, 2007
Cancer is probably the most feared disease in the world. The general term cancer is used to describe a group of diseases that can affect any part of the body. There are more than 100 different types of cancers. Other terms for cancer include growths, malignant tumours and neoplasms.

Breast cancer sufferers get snubbed over travel support
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
A spokesperson for Mullingar Hospital confirmed yesterday that following last week's HSE decision to close its breast cancer service no new patients will be ...


Breast Cancer Navigator Helps Women Cope With The Illness
WIFR - Rockford,IL,USA
"They say something you never forget, I have bad news you have breast cancer." That's when Lisa Bruno comes in. Just 24 hours after Maureen Palka's ...


Haircuts raise funds to help breast cancer researchers
Republican & Herald - Pottsville,PA,USA
... Balicki (Angie's Klassic Kuts) for an awesome day of haircutting and so much more to help raise money and awareness related to breast cancer research. ...


Touched by cancer
Elmira Star-Gazette - Elmira,NY,USA
By Salle E. Richards After their most successful year to date raising money for breast cancer, the Twin Tiers Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure ...

Alerts on breast cancer

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Breast cancer linked to Plastics

Breast cancer link to plastic??

HEALTH RISK: Chemicals in everyday plastic products like babies’ bottles are linked to breast cancer, says a US expert.

Chemicals in plastics like some drink bottles, babies’ bottles and food containers are raising women’s risk of breast cancer, says a visiting US expert.

Dr Maricel Maffini, a biologist specialising in environmental causes of breast cancer, also warns people to avoid microwaving food in plastic containers and raises concerns about chemicals leaching from canned food.

Maffini will this week speak in Rotorua at the first national breast cancer conference, organised by the Breast Cancer Network. Her research focuses on the links between breast cancer and chemicals like bisphenol A, found in many items including polycarbonate plastic containers. Bisphenol A increases exposure to oestrogen which lifts the risk of breast cancer.

“The problem is these bottles leach bisphenol A, so you are constantly drinking a low level of bisphenol A,” she told the Sunday Star-Times from Boston’s Tufts University School of Medicine where she’s a research assistant professor.

“The main argument of companies that produce the plastic bottles is the levels are so low, they are harmless but the exposure is chronic.”

Food Safety Authority spokesman Gary Bowering said ESR research had led the authority to conclude NZ consumers should not change their consumption because local foods had less or comparable levels of bisphenol A as those overseas.

Bowering said the ESR research, carried out in 2004, did not cover bottled water, but did cover soft drinks, which have higher acidity and were more likely to be harsher on containers.

“This would suggest bottled water is of even less concern,” he said.
Aimee Driscoll, a spokeswoman for Coca-Cola Amatil, said it did not use plastics containing bisphenol A in its bottles in New Zealand.

Dr Peter Plimmer, a plastics technology consultant to Auckland University and Plastics NZ, said there was “no way” anyone drinking from a hand-held bottle here could be exposed to bisphenol A. He said hand-held drinking bottles were made from PETE (polyethylene) plastics which did not contain bisphenol A. This interesting discussion continues here

Source :Boland, Sunday Star Times

See also http://snipurl.com/bwater

Chemotherapy and the under 40s...

Chemotherapy failing some young breast cancer sufferers, finds study
Young women suffering from breast cancer do not necessarily benefit from chemotherapy treatment, a study has found. According to the research, published in the online journal Breast Cancer Research, women under the age of 40 with breast cancer ...

Inflammation and Breast Cancer

Although chronic inflammation is a rarely discussed condition, it is, in fact, often the underlying cause of most major diseases.

Inflammation is your immune system's response to an "insult"­an injury, like a pulled muscle or a cut-or an "intruder," such as an allergen, bacteria, virus, or chemical irritant. Your immune system reacts by releasing white blood cells and chemicals into
the bloodstream, which infiltrate your tissues, causing inflammatory trademarks: redness, heat, swel­ling, and pain. Here's where, and in what form, untreated or chronic inflammation can strike:
BRAIN Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis

EYES conjunctivitis

SINUSES sinusitis

FACE acne

GUMS periodontal disease

LUNGS asthma, bronchitis

COLON colitis

INTESTINE Crohn's disease

VAGINA vaginitis

NOSE rhinitis

THROAT Laryngitis Acid Reflux

HEART, ARTERIES, VEINS
vasculitis, atherosclerosis, heart disease

JOINTS arthritis

PANCREAS diabetes

STOMACH gastritis

KIDNEYS lupus

HIP bursitis

SKIN psoriasis

TENDONS tendonitis

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Radiation on left breast increases risk of heart damage

Women with early-stage cancer of the left breast who are treated with radiation as a component of breast-sparing treatment, have an increased risk of developing radiation-related coronary damage, researchers report.

Nevertheless, "the benefits of radiation therapy for breast cancer still clearly outweigh the risks," Dr. Candace R. Correa told Reuters Health. "However," she added, "there may still be room for improvement in radiation techniques," when radiation is applied to the breast on the same side as the heart.

Correa, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and colleagues examined the medical records of 961 stage I-II breast cancer patients to look into this issue of radiation damage to the heart's arteries.

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Documentary On Ordinary Women and Breast Cancer

Ordinary women not only are fighting breast cancer, they are dealing with life which throws them quite a few lemons re cancer (no insurance, no social supports, no information on choices…)all of you ordinary, courageous women who are celebrities in your own right who are dealing with cancer from diagnosis to healing to transformation or whatever your pathways are.

Muriella’s Corner would like to invite you from wherever you are, to begin to contribute to the project. The aim is to collect your stories and testimonials and provide them to Larry King or Dr Sanjay Gupta of CNN or to the Oprah Show. We need to create another face of cancer which people never see and could only imagine.

Our suggestions on submitting the comments follow:

Your name or pseudonym (somewhat like a userid which portrays feeling or location in dealing with the disease like - scaredoutofmyunderwear or onwardandupward

Year of diagnosis

Time of diagnosis (morning, noon, evening)

Place of diagnosis

Immediate reaction ( e.g. shock, why me, sky becoming very dark, cold hands, cold feet, crying out loud, crying silently, were you alone, with friend(s), with family…)

What followed (decision to talk about it , decision not to talk about it, curse my husband, curse my children, curse the pets, pray, nervous laughter…)

How did you manage the sequential process*(handed everything over to the doctor, ran scared out of the room, bawled, went to a bar and drank, had somber thoughts of suicide, went to a church/temple/mosque and prayed…)

*The sequential process is what followed after your initial reaction and the decisions you made or the decisions that were made for you. This is really where the meat of the information comes to the fore:

Decision to have mastectomy/lumpectomy/other/do nothing

Decision to have chemotherapy/radiation/other/do nothing

Decision to decide later what decisions to take

Any pressure felt and from where (without, within…)

Feelings after decision made

Roadblocks along the decision pathway (complications of other diseases hidden, fright/fear all the way, weight loss, weight gain, depression, calm, seeing the light, recognizing that there is more to do and more to life…)

Any other comments would be welcome.