The FDA has warned that having breast implants may be associated with a rare type of breast cancer called ALCL (Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma). The FDA will require breast implant manufacturers to add these to the package inserts as a potential side effect.
Removal of the implants are not recommended. Anytime a women feels a lump in her breast, she should consult with her doctor.
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According to Recent Article in JAMA. The beneifts of mammogram screening in average risk women with no symptoms are marginal at best.
Imagine we took 4,000 women, 40 years of age, with no symptoms, and separated them into 2 groups. We offer 2,000 of the women a mammogram yearly or every other year for 10 years. The other 2,000 women don’t have a mammogram for 10 years. What would the difference in breast cancer death rates be over the following 10 years between the two groups? The results may surprise you.
In the women who do NOT undergo yearly or every other year mammogram for 10 years (5- 10 mammograms), 7 of the 2,ooo, would die from breast cancer
In the women who DO undergo a mammogram yearly or every other year for 10 years (5-10 mammograms), 6 of the 2,000 women would die from the mammogram.
In other words, the science shows that 1 in 2000 women, aged 40-49, will avoid breast cancer due to the screening mammogram. Stated another way, between 10,000 to 20,000 mammograms (assuming one is done every 1-2 years) need to be conducted to prevent 1 breast cancer death for an average risk women between the age of 40-49.
Likewise, there will be 120-400 false positive screening tests requiring a surgical biospy and 2-10 women will be “overdiagnosed” resulting in unnecessary diagnosis and treatment resulting in surgery, radiation, chemotherapy for breast cancer.
While I am NOT recommending women avoid mammograms, I do recommend women talk to their doctors, their risk factors for breast cancer and what the best course of prevention and screening is best for them. In addition, eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy body weight and exercising routinely are strongly encouraged to help prevent cancer from beginning in the first place.
Remember, a mammogram simply finds a cancer that is already there. It does not prevent cancer itself. In fact, the cumulative radiation doses may increase risk of cancer for a small number of women after 10 to 30 years of mammograms. In addition, low levels of vitamin D are also a risk factor for developing breast cancer. I would recommend you ask your doctor to measure your vitamin D level and strive to reach levels >50 ng/ml.
Sources:
The Benefits and Harms of Mammography Screening, JAMA January 13, 2010. Vol. 303, No. 2
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Tagged breast cancer, cancer, Health & Fitness, mammogram, news, women
Tuesday, December 30, 2008; 12:00 AM
TUESDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) — Women with high levels of insulin in their blood appear to be more likely to develop breast cancer than those with lower insulin levels.
And that might be the link between obesity and breast cancer, say researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. High insulin levels have already been associated with obesity.
The researchers compared insulin levels in 835 women who developed breast cancer and 816 women who did not. All women were participating in the Women’s Health Initiative study. Those whose fasting insulin levels were the highest had a 1.5 times greater risk of breast cancer than did women with the lowest fasting insulin levels, the study found.
The risk was even greater among women who were not taking hormone therapy. The study found that those women were 2.4 times more likely to have developed breast cancer if their insulin levels were high than if they were low. …read more here…
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Tagged breast cancer, Health & Fitness, insulin, Medicine, news, Wellness
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By Andrew Stern
Monday June 2
CHICAGO, June 2 (Reuters) – Many young children do not get enough vitamin D, an often invisible deficiency that can show up later as broken bones or a weakened immune system prone to disease, researchers said on Monday.
Two out of five U.S. children aged 8 months to 2 years who took part in a 380-patient study at Children’s Hospital Boston had less-than-optimal blood levels of vitamin D.
The main risk factors were not drinking enough fortified milk, not taking vitamins and being overweight, said the report published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
Lead researcher Catherine Gordon of Children’s Hospital Boston said the 40 percent deficiency rate “is higher than expected in a country that has vitamin D fortified milk.”
The study adds to a growing body of evidence that vitamin D, made when sunlight hits the skin and used to fortify many foods, is important for preventing chronic diseases. It is key to maintaining strong bones but has also been linked with a lower risk of cancer, artery disease and even kidney disease.
The lack of symptoms, at least initially, led Gordon to call it a “silent disease.”
“What was striking to us was how many infants were vitamin D deficient but they were asymptomatic. The silence of what we saw worries me more,” she said in a telephone interview.
The alternative to a blood test to discover a deficiency is to routinely give vitamins that can be consumed easily in the form of liquid drops, she said.
Only three children in the study showed signs of the soft and weakened bones characteristic of rickets, a dangerous condition. Another 13 had symptoms of demineralization, where lack of vitamin D causes minerals to leach out of the bones.
Canadian researchers recently reported that breast cancer patients with lower levels of vitamin D were far more likely to die or have their cancer spread than women with normal levels.
Children with vitamin D deficiency sometimes have bowed legs or easily fractured bones. They can also appear tired, or shaky, or suffer seizures in severe cases.
Overweight children were found to be prone to vitamin D deficiency, perhaps because the vitamin dissolves into fat, Gordon said. Diabetes is one disease linked to the deficiency.
Her findings complemented previous research she did on teenagers in 2004 that found a similar percentage with the deficiency. In that case, soda consumption and exposure to sunshine was a factor, and could be reversed during summer.
But sun exposure did not have an influence on younger children’s risk, perhaps because they were often covered against exposure to the sun’s rays.
Also at risk for a vitamin D deficiency were breast-fed infants, because “breast milk is the perfect food except that it lacks vitamin D,” Gordon said.
However the study found 6 percent of the children fed fortified formula also were vitamin D deficient. The researchers said this raised questions about whether the fortification was sufficient. (Reporting by Andrew Stern; Editing by Maggie Fox and Chris Wilson)
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