They say the early bird gets the worm. But you know what she doesn’t get? Breast cancer, apparently. That’s right: Morning people enjoy a significantly lower risk of the dreaded disease. That’s [...]
Category: Breast Cancer
Dodge cancer by eating an early dinner
The power of your circadian rhythms (or what I like to refer to as your “body clock”) can’t be overstated — whether your goal is to lose weight, dodge diabetes, or ward off a cancer diagnosis [...]
Conventional cancer treatments kill, too
Yesterday, I shared some big news that could rescue tens of thousands of women with early breast cancer from the ravages of chemotherapy. Now, you might think that the benefit here is [...]
Can early breast cancer patients pass on chemo?
Well, this was certainly a long time coming. (And quite frankly, way overdue, since it’s long been my recommendation to many of the women who come to my office.) At last, research has confirmed [...]
Why the war on cancer is still far from won
The way the media reports it, you’d think we turned a corner on the cancer epidemic. But I’m sorry to say that it just isn’t so. The truth is that global cancer incidence has only gone up over [...]
How to disarm breast cancer’s “secret weapon”
It’s been five years since Angelina Jolie dropped her bombshell editorial in The New York Times. And while people may not be talking about her double mastectomy anymore, the conversation about [...]
The silent war on women rages on
It really doesn’t matter how you feel about this current political administration. As the saying goes, “We’re all entitled to our own opinions… but we’re not entitled to our own facts.” As [...]
When to let “sleeping lumps” lie
Yesterday, I met with two new female patients who both came to see me for the exact same problem. Typically, the patients I meet with on a day-to-day basis are all there for a different reason. [...]
The mainstream may change its mind on HRT — but I won’t
Medicine has long wrestled with the question of risk versus benefit where hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is concerned. And with such high stakes — including increased risks of lethal [...]