Tag Archives: Breast Cancer

• Buddy Check 6

  Local researcher tests device to relieve chemotherapy side-effects

  Chemotherapy is a life-saving treatment, but in the process you can lose your hair, feel nauseous, and depressed.
• Health

  Gene clue could offer early diagnosis of breast cancer

  Researchers have discovered a mutant gene that causes breast cancer to spread
• News

  Komen controversy impacts local donations, grant funding

  Susan G. Komen is trying to rebound from a controversy that tarnished its image and hurt fundraising last year.
• Health

  5 new breast cancer discoveries

  Breast cancer doctors and researchers from around the world gathered to talk about how to use existing drugs better when certain drugs don’t work.
• Buddy Check 6

  Breast cancer victim leaves behind electronic love notes

  Lisa’s Story is the funny and inspiring emails written by local writer Lisa Thalhimer as she fought a very aggressive form of breast cancer.
• Buddy Check 6 / Health / News

  Study touts breast cancer drug as way to beat disease

  British researchers have found taking the drug tamoxifen for a longer period of time could have big benefits.
• Health / News

  Doctors: Women who store phone in bras at risk for breast cancer

  Tiffany Franz got breast cancer at just 21-years-old. She had no genetic predispositions or other risk factors–except where she kept her cell phone.
• Health / News

  CDC: Breast cancer deadlier in African American women

  New report shows large gaps between black and white women in terms of mortality and stage of diagnosis continue to persist.
• Buddy Check 6 / Health

  BUDDY CHECK 6: Menopause treatment linked to breast cancer

  A study in 2002 raised questions about HRT and an increased risk for breast cancer. Seventy percent of breast cancers are fed by estrogen.
• News

  Sharon Osbourne talks about her double mastectomy

  Osbourne said she didn’t want to live under the cloud of cancer.
• Photo Galleries

  PHOTOS: Breast cancer survivor house opens in Jackson Ward

  The Central Virginia Chapter of the The Sisters Network, Inc. held the grand opening for their new sister house located in the city’s historic Jackson Ward neighborhood.
• Buddy Check 6 / Health / News

  BUDDY CHECK 6: Breast cancer survivors offer unique show-n-tell to help patients

  It’s called National Reconstruction Awareness Day or National BRA Day.