Sentences with phrase «cancer as a young woman»

What its really like to get breast cancer as a young woman.

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Given questions about how long the vaccine is effective for, she questioned the efficacy of giving shots to girls as young as 11 years old in parts of the world (such as the U.S.) where women regularly undergo safety Pap screening repeatedly over their lifetimes, saying that the chances of their contracting cervical cancer may be less than the «small» risks associated with the vaccine.

Schlager, an executive at Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE), reassured her daughter that she had nothing to worry about as a child; there would be time enough when she became a young woman to learn more about her personal genetic blueprint.

So I think I'll go back to thoughts of a woman who inspired me to start this blog, an incredibly courageous mother who is raising two young children and fighting inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), all while blogging as «WhyMommy» at Toddler Planet.

«If you are a young woman who was treated with radiation therapy to your chest as a teenager or child for HL, or for that matter chest radiation therapy for any reason, you should be having a conversation with your family doctor or your oncologist about whether to start breast cancer screening earlier than most women would,» says Dr. Hodgson.

Although their cancers are diagnosed at younger ages, this is largely because these ethnic minority populations as a whole are younger than the population of White women in the UK.

Providing an informative interactive website, educational resources and programs, as well as local support services across the United States, it is YSC's goal that young women feel supported, empowered and hopeful and most importantly, are not left to face breast cancer alone.

About 40 percent of the young cancer patients were diagnosed with what's known as stage two tumors, when cancer has spread to lymph nodes surrounding the breast while just 34 percent of older women were diagnosed when cancer had reached stage two.

Anti-viral treatment can literally be a lifesaver for folks at higher risk of complications from the flu, including the elderly, young children, pregnant women, and those with underlying medical issues (such as diabetes, cancer, or heart or lung disease).

Triple negative breast cancer is more common among Hispanic and African American women, as well as younger women.

Young women with dense breasts - as measured by the percentage of water in their breast tissue - may be at greater risk of developing breast cancer later in life than women with less - dense breasts.

By Denise Mann THURSDAY, April 30, 2009 (Health.com)-- Young women with dense breasts — as measured by the percentage of water in their breast tissue — may be at greater risk of developing breast cancer later in life than women with less - dense breasts.

The research indicates that taking into account their family history, adolescent females already with a higher breast cancer risk, should be aware that alcohol avoidance could reduce their benign breast disease risk as young women, and later in life, a reduced breast cancer risk.

There was a significant link between amount of alcohol consumption and further increased risk of getting benign breast disease as young women in adolescent girls having a family history of breast cancer.

Young women whose aunts or mothers had breast cancer were more than two times as likely to have a benign breast disease diagnosis in comparison to young women without a family hisYoung women whose aunts or mothers had breast cancer were more than two times as likely to have a benign breast disease diagnosis in comparison to young women without a family hisyoung women without a family history.

Similarly, a Canadian study done by Dr. Knight showed that women who reported having the most sun exposure as a teenager and young adult had almost a 70 percent reduced risk of developing breast cancer.

When my cousin had breast cancer her oncologist actually ranted some about soy products as she was the third or fourth young women he had seen that day with estrogen related breast cancer.

Typical medical treatments such as birth control pills for younger women dealing with menstrual problems, infertility treatments and hormone replacement have all been shown to dramatically increase the risk of cancer (1, 2, 3, 4).

It was Lindsay's hope to turn her experiences as a young woman at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer into a resource and supportive community for other young women.

The Fault in Our Stars opens with a promise of its own, as the young woman decries the sappy sentimentality of the depiction of cancer and dying in the movies and in trashy romance novels.

• In Stepmom, the range of expressions that pass over the face of a woman (Susan Sarandon) just diagnosed with cancer as her ex-husband (Ed Harris) tells his news first: he's marrying the younger woman (Julia Roberts) she loathes...

Parabens are another common class of ingredients that many consumers are wary of, as there have been theories and reports linking parabens to cancer and hormonal imbalances, particularly in young girls and women.

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Failure to diagnose cancer malpractice often happens when young women show early symptoms of breast cancer or cervical cancer, as the doctor may mistakenly assume that a young person is unlikely to develop such diseases.

According to findings from a recent study published in the Cancer Research journal, it looks as if there is a connection between Depo - Provera and a greater risk of invasive breast cancer in young Cancer Research journal, it looks as if there is a connection between Depo - Provera and a greater risk of invasive breast cancer in young cancer in young women.