Lymphedema Risk With Chemotherapy
February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In this video, Breast Cancer expert Dr. David Margileth explains the link possible between breast cancer chemotherapy and lymphedema. Dr. David A. Margileth, MD, Oncologist: Lymphedema is a swelling of the arm that occurs after some breast cancer therapy. In general, it’s a result of the local treatment of the breast, [...]
Breast Cancer Risks Women Should Be Aware of
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In this video Dr. Hoda Anton-Culver provides women with important breast cancer risk factors they should be aware of.
Breast Cancer Risk From Family History
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In this video Dr. Anton-Culver explains why family history plays an important role in assessing a woman’s risk in developing breast cancer. Dr. Hoda Anton-Culver, PhD: Well, we started our research way back to look for the typical epidemiology of breast cancer and that means ‘is breast cancer one disease or [...]
Breast Cancer Obesity Info, Cancer Expert Explains
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dr. Hoda Anton-Culver describes the breast cancer risks involved for obese women of all ages and why maintaining an acceptable BMI is important for all women. Dr. Hoda Anton-Culver, PhD: Well, obesity affects lots of things in the body and obesity at different ages affects the hormone level in a woman’s [...]
Early Breast Cancer Detection’s Importance In Treatment
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Find out why early detection of breast cancer is important and why when you find out you have breast cancer matters from cancer expert Dr. Hoda Anton-Culver. Widely recognized as a leader in cancer research, Dr. Hoda Anton-Culver is a Professor & Chair of the Epidemiology School of Medicine at the [...]
Prophylactic Mastectomy Considerations For Patients With A Family History of Breast Cancer
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Find out why Dr. Jay K. Harness will not recommend a prophylactic mastectomy to a woman with a family history of breast cancer. Jay K. Harness, MD: A question was recently submitted from a very anxious person who is unfortunately going through the experience of watching her mother die from stage-4 [...]
What Are The Chances My Cancer Will Return After A Triple Negative Diagnosis?
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In this video, Dr. Margileth defines a triple negative breast cancer as breast cancers that have negative estrogen receptor, negative progesterone receptor and negative HER2/neu gene and describes treatment options and risk of recurrence. Dr. David A. Margileth A triple negative breast cancer is defined as breast cancers that have negative [...]
Breast Cancer Thermography Diagnosis, How Does It Work?
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In this video Dr. Jay K. Harness reviews what thermography is, how it works, and why it is not an optimal way to diagnose breast cancer. Jay K. Harness, MD, FACS: Over the years, we have been looking for multiple different technologies that can detect breast cancer early on. One of [...]
Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia Risk With Family History Factors
February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In this video Dr. Jay K. Harness explains the relationship between atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) and breast cancer and how family history of ADH may significantly increase a patient’s risk for breast cancer. Jay K. Harness, MD, FACS: Well if you combine ADH, Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia, with a family history of breast cancer, suddenly then [...]
