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28 Dec

Birth Control Pills Increase Cancer Risk: How You Can Lower Your Risk

Birth control pills are a convenient method of contraception, widely used. But recent studies show that these pills can increase breast cancer risk. For tips on how you can reduce your risk of breast cancer, see my recent article in the Huffington Post at www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/use-of-birth-control-pills-increases-breast-cancer_us_5a45442ce4b06cd2bd03deb6

06 Apr

Nancy Reagan’s Secret Story is Important for You

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Nancy Reagan passed away with a secret untold story about her surviving breast cancer. The story is important for you today. Find out about this and why it can help you at my recent Huffington Post article http://huff.to/1UIJi6w

11 Apr

Avoid Getting Cancer: Angelina Jolie Did

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How far would you go to avoid cancer? What decisions would you make. Angelina Jolie shows how you might make decisions, as I discuss in my recent Huffington Post article. Check it out http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/angelina-jolie-double-cre_b_6966094.html

26 Sep

Breast Cancer is Now a Chronic Disease

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Breast cancer used to be a near fatal diagnosis. Check out my Huffington Post article for Pearle’s story: 31 years with metastatic breast cancer, and she is still going strong http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/happy-80th-birthday-pearl_b_5885974.html . October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so make sure your (or your spouse’s) mammography screening is up to date.

14 Aug

Breakthrough Drugs: Should A Patient Try To Get Them?

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we have all read about breakthrough drugs. What are they and should a person try to get them. For my tips about them, see my recent article in the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/dr-carys-6-tips-about-bre_b_5666995.html

21 Jan

We Are Making Progress in Reducing Cancer Deaths

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Cancer death rates are down. How can you help to reduce your risk of cancer and help prevent the occurrence of cancer in yourself, and in your family? See my recent Huffington Post article and think about how you can help your own healthcare http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/cancer_b_4579448.html

24 Jun

How the Supreme Court Decision on Gene Patents Really Helps You

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Approximately 30% of cancers are caused by hereditary tendency to get cancer. In other diseases, such as cardiac disease, bone disease, and lung disease, diabetes, and high cholesterol, the hereditary tendency to develop the disease is also very strong.

The Supreme Court recently ruled that in the case of a gene test for breast and ovarian cancer (BRCA1 and BRCA2), the gene itself could not be patented. It did specify that the synthetic DNA, used…

31 May

How You Can Avoid Delays in Treatment After Breast Cancer Diagnosis

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After a woman gets a diagnosis of breast cancer, she has anxiety, depression and fear until she gets her treatment plan from her doctors, and begins therapy (surgery possibly followed by radiation, chemotherapy and/or hormonal treatment). This delay from diagnosis to treatment with surgery has been growing (according to Dr. Richard Bleicher and coauthors, J. Clin. Oncol. 30: 4485, 2013). The delay averaging 21 days in 1992 has grown to 32 days in 2005 (the…

16 May

Angelina Jolie’s Mastectomy and YOU: Tips for Your Health

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Everyone has heard the news: one of our favorite stars, Angelina Jolie, knew that her mother had died of breast cancer. So she had her blood checked and news reports told us that she tested positive for a gene mutation that causes a very high risk of breast cancer, the BRCA gene mutation. So she made a life-changing decision: she would undergo a bilateral mastectomy and breast reconstruction. What does this story mean you have…

18 Mar

How To Use Mammograms And PSA Tests To Avoid Serious Cancers

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A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine (http://nej.md/TRTJQ1) has indicated that over 30 years, the number of early stage breast cancers detected has increased dramatically, but the number of advanced stage cancers detected has reduced only slightly. The implication of this article is that woman should not have mammograms as frequently, since there is “over diagnosis” of breast cancer due to mammograms. The same arguments have been made for PSA screening…

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