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A Bra That Diagnoses Cancer

Wednesday, November 14, 2012
If you don't have time to get a mammogram, let the mammogram come to you: Starting in 2013, you can wear a bra that will warn of breast cancer tumors in their first stage of...
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Commonly Used Fertilizer May Lead to Breast Cancer

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Not everything is happy down on the farm. Weed killers are killing us and some of the pesticides used on crops can prevent breast feeding and dietary cadmium, a toxic metal found in many farm...
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Red Wine May Help Prevent Breast Cancer

Monday, January 23, 2012
Red wine is almost a medicine for heart disease, and now a NEW use for it has been found: Drinking red wine in moderation may reduce one of the risk factors for breast cancer, providing a natural weapon to combat...
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How to Find Out if Cancer is in Your Future

Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Is breast cancer in your future? Puberty is a time in a girl's life considered highly sensitive to stimulation by the hormone estrogen and a critical window during which estrogen exposure could greatly influence the risk of breast cancer later in life.
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Pollution Blame for Breast Cancer?

Monday, January 31, 2011
Breast cancer has been blamed on many different things, but pollution? A ground-breaking new study suggests pollution from traffic may put women at risk for this deadly disease. Researcher Mark Goldberg says, "We've been watching breast cancer rates go up for some time....
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How to Avoid Breast Cancer

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Be happy! - Here's a new reason to be happy: Women who have a positive outlook on life are less likely to get breast cancer.

Getting divorced, or having a loved one die, increases your risk. BBC News quotes researcher Ronit Peled as saying, "We can carefully say that experiencing more than one severe and/or moderate...

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Common Breakfast Food May Cause Cancer

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

We long reported that our chances of getting cancer may be affected by what we eat. Now scientists say that eating grapefruit every day may raise the risk of developing breast cancer by almost a third. And while genes explain why Asian women get less breast cancer, their diet could also have something to do with it.

The BBC News reports...

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