Why didn't chemotherapy work for this ovarian cancer, breast cancer patient? Get help, treatment, tests & diagnosis for women from gynecological medical experts on symptoms, causes, risks at EmpowHer. http://www.empowher.com/condition/cancer/media?syn_3
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This is my electronic press kit, the story of a breast cancer warrior who was diagnosed (but initially MISdiagnosed) at the age of 30 with STAGE 4 metastatic breast cancer. She was given one year to live.
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Heart Disease Is The #1 Killer Of Women / Educational Video. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; The Heart Truth; The Heart Truth is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Designed to warn women of their #1 health threat, The Heart Truth created and introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in 2002 to deliver an urgent wake-up call to American women. The Red Dress reminds women of the need to protect their heart health, and inspires them to take action. Producer: National Institutes of Health; Keywords: hhs.gov; public_safety. Creative Commons license: Public Domain; Ask American women what disease they’re most scared of, and the vast majority will answer without hesitation: breast cancer. They may even cite the ominous statistic that 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in her life. But what most women don’t realize is that they actually have far more to fear from heart disease, which will strike 1 out of every 3. More than 500,000 women die in the U.S. each year of cardiovascular disease, making it, not breast cancer (40,000 deaths annually), their No. 1 killer. Women and heart disease? Better believe it. For while most people still think of cardiovascular trouble as mainly a man’s problem, the reality is that heart disease has never discriminated between the sexes. In fact, for a variety of complex reasons, the condition is more often fatal in women than in men and is more likely to leave women severely disabled by a stroke or congestive heart failure. True, women don’t usually start showing signs until their 60s—about 10 years after men first develop symptoms. And hormones seem to play a protective role in women before menopause. But the common belief that premenopausal women are immune to heart problems is just plain wrong. Heart attacks strike 9,000 women younger than 45 each year. The more scientists learn about a woman’s heart and what can go wrong with it, the more they realize that females aren’t just small males. There are subtle but important differences in how women’s cardiovascular systems respond to stress, hormones, excess saturated fat and toxins like tobacco. There are also some pretty big differences in how aggressively doctors treat women with heart trouble—even in the emergency room when they are in most desperate need of help. All those publicity campaigns that have focused attention on breast cancer may be part of the problem. The pink ribbons, the docudramas and the races for a cure have inadvertently left women with the impression that breast cancer is the only thing they need be worried about. So when public-health officials at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) decided to spread the word about women’s risk of heart disease with a campaign called Heart Truth, they took a page from the cancer advocates’ manual, designed their own lapel pin—in the shape of a bright red dress—and sought help from some very highly placed women, starting with the First Lady. “Women take care of all the people in their family—their children, their husbands—but they sometimes don’t take care of themselves,” says Laura Bush. “The goals of this campaign are just to really make sure that women know that heart disease is their No. 1 killer and that they can change their lifestyles to prevent it.” The new push couldn’t come at a more critical juncture. Many women were stunned last year when the famous Women’s Health Initiative discovered that pills providing a combination of estrogen and progestin do not protect the hearts of postmenopausal women. (Tests on estrogen alone are still under way.) Suddenly, what had seemed to be the simplest, most elegant solution to the aging female heart—replacing the hormones a woman makes before menopause—had vanished. After that bombshell, doctors and their female patients had a lot of questions. If hormones don’t prevent heart disease, what does? Is the ailment fundamentally different in men and women? If not, why do their symptoms seem to differ? And why do treatments such as bypass surgery and angioplasty, which work so well for men, often fail for women? In some ways, says Dr. Sharonne Hayes of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., “the findings have allowed us appropriately, and perhaps belatedly, to refocus our efforts.”
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Visit http://action.acscan.org/site/PageServer?pagename=healthcarereform_stories_form to share your story.
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This is a piece put together by Rising Creek Pictures for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. The NBCF is providing Help for Today and Hope for Tomorrow for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Their mission is to inspire women in their fight. Rising Creek Pictures tells stories for non-profits and produces image advertising and other video products for sports properties.
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Camouflage and Reconstructive Care
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the UK, with one in 9 women diagnosed each year. The good news, however, is that the survival rate for early diagnosis is as high as 90%.
My clients are often devastated by their diagnosis and subsequent treatment or surgery, says Debra. Breast Cancer Care is a charity very dear to my heart. Debra regularly treats cancer sufferers by repigmenting their nipple or areola area, giving a natural appearance to the breast. She also donates 10% of her fee for nipple treatments to the charity.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Shop the Pink Shop online (http://www.bostonstore.com) or in our store near you.
Every purchase counts in the search for a cure.
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Watch survivor woman on Breast Cancer/Ovarian Cancer Connection! Get info/help, treatment, tests, chemotherapy, endometriosis, abdominal CT scan, biopsy, hysterectomy from America's best cancer doctors. http://www.empowher.com/condition/cancer/media?syn_3
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Woman cancer survivor at Southern California's Susan G. Komen for the Cure shares what she learned from fighting Breast Cancer. Get information on treatment, tests, symptoms & causes for breast cancer. http://www.empowher.com/condition/cancer/media?syn_3
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