Special report: Targeting teens for gastric bands
Special report: Targeting teens for gastric bands
After one patient died and others suffered serious complications following Lap-Band surgery, Dr. Neelu Pal had seen enough. A petite surgical resident now aged 40, she began quietly calling patients about to undergo the weight-loss procedure at New York University’s Medical Center, telling them she feared for their safety.
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Women, Teens On The Pill Risk Breast Cancer, Major Study Says
Oral contraception has been closely linked to a certain deadly type of breast cancer, a leading cancer journal stated recently, and the results may prove to challenge the breast cancer research community.
A study concerning the deadly “triple negative” breast cancer, involving more than 1500 women aged 20 – 45, found a “distinct etiology,” or cause and effect, for women who used oral contraception for longer than a year, and an even stronger correlation for women who began using it before the age of 18.
The study was published in the April 2009 Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention over a five-year period. The study’s main author, Jessica Dolle, and other researchers at the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, found that oral contraceptive use for a year or more “was associated with a 2.7-fold increased risk for triple-negative breast cancer.” Triple negative breast cancer is a subtype of cancer associated with a high mortality rate.
Various Causes
“Specifically,” the study said, “older age, family history of breast cancer, earlier menarche age [beginning of menstruation], induced abortion, and oral contraceptive use were associated with an increased risk for breast cancer.”
“Our study has the strength of being population based and is the largest of its kind to evaluate breast cancer subtypes and etiologic [causation] differences in young women,” the study said.
Other than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in the United States, according to the NCI. Nearly 200,000 women were diagnosed in the U.S. last year with breast cancer.
In the light of recent studies such as the Dolle report, many experts believe women should be educated about the dangers of oral contraceptives and breast cancer.
Women in Phoenix, AZ, as well as Peoria, Glendale, Tempe, Mesa, Avondale and other cities can learn more about the dangers of oral contraceptives by contacting Life Choices Women’s Clinics.
STI, HIV counseling inadequate in male teens
STI, HIV counseling inadequate in male teens
Despite national guidelines aimed at improving sexual health services for teenagers, most sexually active boys – even those who report high-risk sexual behaviors – still get too little counseling about HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during their visits to the doctor, according to a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
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Getting Smart Advice About Breast Cancer to Savvy Canadian Teens
Getting Smart Advice About Breast Cancer to Savvy Canadian Teens
TORONTO—-Talking to teenagers: tough. Talking to teenagers about making positive lifestyle choices to reduce their chances of getting breast cancer: even tougher. Which is why The Pink Tulip Foundation, a Toronto-based breast cancer charity, has teamed up with Ariad Custom Communications.
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