What You Need to Know to Optimize Your Health
Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is rapidly becoming a game-changer in cancer prediction, diagnosis, and treatment.... Read More
Black women diagnosed with breast cancer in their 40s have twice the mortality rate of white women.... Read More
Phytoestrogens consist primarily of isoflavones (high concentrations in soybeans and other legumes) and lignans (in various fruits, vegetables, and cereal products).... Read More
This is the first study analyzing breast density changes, over time, in an individual breast (rather than averaging the two breasts). While breast density typically declines with age, a slower rate of decline in one breast (than the other) often precedes a cancer diagnosis in that breast.... Read More
Not all who have a BRCA mutation will develop cancer, but having such a gene mutation increases the cancer risk. For example, about 50 percent of women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation will be diagnosed with breast cancer by age 70, compared with seven out of 100 in the general USA population.... Read More
Higher physical activity levels appeared to lower breast cancer risk by nearly one-quarter (a drop of 22 percent in relative risk). This risk reduction appeared similar in pre-and postmenopausal women and for high- versus light-intensity movement.... Read More
