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Breast Cancer Part 2 of 4- Health Connection High risk

Options in breast cancer treatment used to be few, but with more available today, a woman can feel more in control of her treatment choices and her body. This video is brought to you by the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. Visit hcc.musc.edu to learn more.

Bud Connection Running “Buds and Bras” Fund-raiser

Bud Connection Running “Buds and Bras” Fund-raiser
ELLSWORTH — The Bud Connection on Main Street is hosting the “Buds and Bras” contest as a breast cancer fund-raiser during October.

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Connection between light at night and cancer revealed in additional study

Connection between light at night and cancer revealed in additional study
( University of Haifa ) The researchers say that their study results show that suppression of melatonin due to exposure to light at night, or LAN, is linked to the worrying rise in the number of cancer patients over the past few years.

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Mobile Health Requires Grasping Smartphone, User Connection

Mobile Health Requires Grasping Smartphone, User Connection
Health-care companies must recognize the personal nature between people and their smartphones when introducing mobile health initiatives. Smartphone – United States – Health – IPhone – Politics

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The Breast Cancer Connection And The Birth Control Pill

There is only one drug in the world so well known that it’s called “the Pill.” For more than forty years, more people have taken “the Pill” than any other prescribed medicine in the world.

Sex, pregnancy, and contraception have been hot topics for millennia. It wasn’t until the U.S. government approved the birth control pill in 1960 that possibilities for contraception changed dramatically. The majority of women — and plenty of men — welcomed “the Pill”.

The birth control pill was the first medication ever designed for purely social, rather than therapeutic purposes. At the height of the drugs popularity, U.S. Senate hearings focused the nations attention on potentially deadly health risks posed by the high-dose Pill. As a result of the hearings, pharmaceutical companies lowered the dosages and doctors advised women who were obese, smoked, had high blood pressure or a family history of blood clots against taking the Pill.

In the 1980s, the high dosage 10-milligram pill was removed from the market and biphasic and triphasic oral contraceptives were introduced. Today, women can get a prescription for a Pill containing 1 milligram of progestins, one tenth of the original dose, and containing as little as 20 micrograms of estrogen.

From the very beginning, a significant number of women complained of discomfort from the Pill and switched to other methods. When women wanted to discuss the side effects with their doctors, they often met with frustration. It was common for their complaints to be dismissed as exaggerated. In other cases their ailments were just considered the price that women had to pay in return for such an effective contraceptive. The problem was compounded by that fact that female patients were not always informed about the potential for strokes, heart attacks or blood clots while on the Pill. For the most part sharing “the Pills” risk has become a part of the information provided by health care practitioners who prescribe the Pill.

Today, the safety of the Pill is assumed. However, it is important to remember that the pill contains identical hormones to those found in Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). HRT has come under question because of the Women’s Health Initiative Study showing an increase in breast cancer and heart disease for those women who were on HRT.

In October 20, 2004 headlines read “Birth Control Pill Cuts Cancer, Heart Disease Risk: Study – A new study, yet to be published, suggests women who use oral contraceptives have lower risks of heart disease, stroke, and cancer.”

This study has now been denied as accurate by the WHI. Analyses by the WHI have made it clear that the recent findings were not correct?

The low dose pill today although deemed to be safe has never undergone a large government-funded study similar to the WHI study on HRT. According to Dr. John R. Lee in his book “What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer” women up to age 21 who use the Pill increase their lifetime risk of Breast Cancer by 600%. Caution when considering the use of Birth Control Pill should still be used.

Using the Mind-body Connection to Fight Breast Cancer

It has been proven that there is a strong mind-body connection in successful healing of breast cancer. When you have and emotion or thought it produces a feeling, which turns into a physical sensation. Self-hypnosis has been used very successfully to access this connection and to enable cancer sufferers to heal. Self-hypnosis uses positive suggestions or visualisations to produce positive emotions which in turn produce positive changes in the body to aid in self-healing. These programs offer powerful guided visualisations in language that is hypnotically charged and specifically designed to access the vast, mighty power of the subconscious mind to bring about healing in the shortest possible time.

A professionally designed self-hypnosis program will prompt you to explore if there is any conscious or subconscious benefit or need to maintain the disease. It will then help you to let go of this need and build new positive thought habits that support good health and healing. The hypnosis will help you to strengthen your belief that you can and will heal from breast cancer easily and effortlessly

The self-hypnosis program may prompt you to learn what attracted the cancer to you in the first place. Your subconscious mind is very powerful and it does not differentiate between imagined and real events. The hypnosis program will guide you through a creative visualisation where you imagine yourself cleansing, repairing and healing the damaged areas of your body. Then expelling all the disease out of your body.

Traditional therapies for breast cancer include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and drug therapy. Most of these techniques destroy or weaken the body’s natural immune system. Natural therapies deal with cancer by using nontoxic biological substances, detoxification, nutritional therapies and mind-body therapies.

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Living Beyond Breast Cancer: Information, Connection, Support

This video features information on Living Beyond Breast Cancer, a national, nonprofit organization located outside Philadelphia. LBBC is committed to empowering all women affected by breast cancer to live as long as possible with the best quality of life.

Is there a connection between birth control pills and breast cancer?

One gynecologist said there wasn’t and prescribed them to me, but recently another one said I shouldn’t take them because of the breast cancer risk. My mother had breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Can you refer me to any studies that have been done about whether birth control pills increase your chances of getting breast cancer?