AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Women with familial cancer risk understand risk of prophylactic mastectomy.
2004 APR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients with a familial risk of breast cancer contemplating prophylactic mastectomy (PM) understood the risks, but patients without prior breast cancer reported better mental and emotional health status, researchers find.
"A consecutive sample of 56 women with a familial risk for breast cancer who were considering a prophylactic mastectomy (PM) completed questionnaires preoperatively concerning risk perception, expectations with regard to surgery, anxiety and depressive symptoms (the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) scale) and quality of life (The Swedish SF-36 Health Survey)," scientists in Sweden report.
"Sixteen had had a previous breast cancer (Group BC) and 40 had not (Group R). They were compared with normative data from an age-matched random sample of the Swedish population and with a reference sample of women with breast cancer," wrote Y. Brandberg and colleagues, Karolinska University Hospital, Department of Pathology & Oncology.
"Most women estimated their breast cancer risk accurately. No statistically significant differences were found between Group BC and the normative sample on the HAD scale and SF-36, but Group R reported better physical functioning, emotional role functioning and mental health than the ...
- Women with familial cancer risk understand risk of prophylactic mastectomy.
- Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly March 30, 2004 700+ words
...had a previous breast cancer (Group BC) and 40 had...estimated their breast cancer risk accurately...found between Group BC and the normative...reference sample with breast cancer," the researchers wrote. "Group BC scored closer...
- Breast Cancer Survivor Jaclyn Smith Urges Women to Know Their Breast Cancer...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 10, 2007 700+ words
-- Breast Cancer Risk Factors Include Age, Family...entrepreneur, philanthropist and breast cancer survivor, is touring the country...Knowing: The Facts and Fiction of Breast Cancer Risk program, sharing her experience...
- Breast cancer - epidemiology, risk factors, and genetics.
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal McPherson, K. Steel, C.M. Dixon, J.M. October 15, 1994 700+ words
...new cases in the world each year, breast cancer remains the commonest malignancy in...aged 50, two will recently have had breast cancer diagnosed and about 15 will have had...age of 50, giving a prevalence of breast cancer of nearly 2%. [CHART OMITTED] Age...
- Breast Cancer Research Stamp Funding the Fight to Find a Cure for a Decade;...
- News wire article from: AScribe Health News Service July 29, 2008 700+ words
...out of Washington today in the fight against breast cancer. The Breast Cancer Research Stamp is the first postage stamp of...Rodham Clinton. Since that historic day, the Breast Cancer Research Stamp has raised more money than any...
- Breast cancer risk and immune responses in healthy women.(Clinical report)
- Magazine article from: Oncology Nursing Forum Park, Na-Jin Kang, Duck-Hee November 1, 2006 700+ words
...findings of objective and subjective breast cancer risk assessments and their association...healthy women with a family history of breast cancer. Data Sources: Published articles...Healthy women with a family history of breast cancer have shown decreased immune responses...
- Breast cancer in men: treatment is based on results extrapolated from trials...
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Perkins, George H Middleton, Lavinia P August 2, 2003 700+ words
Breast cancer in men is a rare disease that accounts...The medical literature regarding breast cancer in men consists mainly of case-control...extrapolating data derived from studies of breast cancer in women and using those data as a...
- Breast Cancer Research Foundation Supports OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center's...
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service October 7, 2002 700+ words
...is receiving a second award from The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to continue...into the relationship between diet and breast cancer prevention. Dr. Electra Paskett...conducted under the auspices of the new Breast Cancer Prevention Through Nutrition Program...
- Breast cancer update: what-really reduces your risk: the pill. Coffee. Sun....
- Magazine article from: Redbook Levine, Hallie October 1, 2002 700+ words
...habits are upping our odds of getting breast cancer. And it's no wonder we're confused...study tells us what to eat to prevent breast cancer; the next week, another tells us...myths? What actually slashes your breast-cancer risk? Redbook went to some of the...
- Breast cancer. (Letters to the Editor).
- Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients October 1, 2002 700+ words
...will see about 46,000 deaths from breast cancer It should be possible to reduce this...today is that the primary cause of breast cancer is estrogen. I have maintained a 30...report with the title of "Diet and Breast Cancer: The Possible Connection with Sugar...
- Breast Cancer Activists Ask Public to Beware of Costly Fund-Raising Efforts.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 29, 2002 700+ words
...days is "Think Before You Pink." Breast cancer activists are warning the public to...makers to car dealers, that put breast cancer's symbolic pink ribbon on a product...companies -- and never makes it to breast cancer causes, survivors say. The event...
Source: HighBeam Research, Women with familial cancer risk understand risk of prophylactic...