Focus on Breast Cancer

The news that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Presidential candidate John Edwards, has seen her cancer move from her breast to her bones and is no longer curable, focuses our attention on breast cancer, which will be newly diagnosed in over 178,00 women in the United States in 2007.

We've done a number of stories on this issue here at askdrmanny.com, and Dr. Manny Alvarez and his health news team at FoxNews.com have also covered this story through articles and video. We hope that by gathering this list of resources, you'll learn more about this growing problem which affects so many American women every year.

At AskDrManny.com

• What to Check On Before Your Next Check Up
  Experts say patients must be proactive healthcare consumers
• VIDEO: Dr. Manny talks about Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
  Dr. Manny talks about the risk factors for breast cancer, including genetics as well as smoking and obesity.
• VIDEO: When should a woman get a mammogram?
• VIDEO: What are the risk factors for breast cancer?
• VIDEO: How is breast cancer treated?

At FoxNews.com

• Breast Cancer Screening ... at the Dentist?
• FDA Approves New Breast Cancer Drug
• Women Over 40 Failing to Get Regular Mammograms
• Study: Cancer Five Times More Frequent in Extremely Dense Breast Tissue; Better Mammograms Needed
• Low-Fat Diet Could Block Breast Cancer Return in Some Women
• Experimental Drug Tykerb Fights Inflammatory Breast Cancer
• Breast Cancer Drop Linked to Halt in Hormone Therapy
• Danish Long-Term Study Finds No Cancer Risk From Cell Phones
• Abortion Drug RU-486 Prevents Breast Cancer Tumors By Blocking Hormone
• FDA Expands Herceptin Use for Breast Cancer
• Studies Suggest Red Meat May Increase Risk of Breast Cancer
• Internet Tool Predicts Cancer Return
• Fighting Breast Cancer: Where the Green Goes When You Buy Pink
• Birth Control Pill May Raise Breast Cancer Risk

Around the Web

• BreastCancer.org
  Breast Cancer Treatment Information and Pictures
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
  Dedicated to education and research about causes, treatment, and the search for a cure.
• Breast Cancer Home Page
  From the National Cancer Institute
• MedlinePlus: Breast Cancer
  Information from the National Library of Medicine.