Breast cancer awareness

It is essential to take care of yourself if you undergo breast cancer surgery. Following a well-balanced diet can help you to get back on track. After surgery, you may suffer from vomiting and nausea which are common. Also, you tend to experience it if you have opted for chemotherapy or radiation. Furthermore, you may also feel weak and there will be loss of appetite. So, if you wish to ease symptoms like nausea and vomiting which can give you a tough time you should see to it that you eat smaller meals throughout the day, add yoghurt to your diet and drink soups and vegetable broth.

Tips to deal with breast cancer after diagnosis

Breast health is the most ignored health concern for women. They tend to ignore the pain, shape change, as well as the lump, felt in the breasts, which need to be checked out. The problem is the late detection of cancer.
Breast Cancer Awareness month: Novel testing platform designed for breast cancer cells

Researchers have developed a novel testing platform to evaluate how breast cancer cells respond to the recurrent stretching that occurs in the lungs during breathing.
Breast cancer increasing rapidly in urban India: 1 in 22 Indian women at risk

Breast cancer is increasing by 10 per cent every year and the reason behind is changing reproductive preferences and hormonal imbalances in the body.
New analysis identifies 32 new risk variants for breast cancer: Know how to keep this disease at bay

Researchers link DNA variations to risks of specific breast cancer subtypes. Read on to know how to bring down your risk of this disease.
Bring down your risk of breast cancer: Reduce milk intake

Researchers have found that even relatively moderate amounts of dairy milk consumption can increase women's risk of breast cancer. Read on to know more.
Hair dye can give you breast cancer but so can late nights and contraceptive pills

Breast cancer is a risk that women have to live with. There are many risk factors including use of hair dye, late nights and obesity among others.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Home remedies to help ease treatment side-effects

Breast cancer treatment often come with troublesome side-effects. On this Breast Cancer Awareness Month learn how lifestyle changes and natural remedies can treat the side-effects of cancer treatment
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Know what foods can be dangerous

As it's the breast cancer awareness month, make sure you go for the cancer-screening test. Additionally, we tell you here what to eat (and what not to) to lower breast cancer risk.
Home care tips for breast cancer survivors
China defines norms for treatment of breast cancer

The National Cancer Center has released guidelines for screening, early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer to follow-up treatment and management of concomitant diseases.
Eat these super-foods to tackle breast caner
Breast cancer study confirms importance of multigenerational family data to assess risk

In the largest study of its kind, a team of researchers evaluated four commonly used breast cancer prediction models and found that family-history-based models perform better than non-family-history based models, even for women at average or below-average risk of breast cancer.
Breast cancer: How yoga asanas can help

Breast cancer treatment should be a holistic approach. Yoga can help breast cancer patients and survivors deal with the stress and improve the overall quality of life.
Real life hero: Suvidha Gupta's weapon against breast cancer is her optimism

Suvidha did not let breast cancer control her life. It is her positive approach that helped her sail through the condition.
Meet Dimple Bawa, the breast cancer champion who'll inspire you

Dimple Bawa, a cancer survivor and the founder of Cheers to Life Foundation, a support group for cancer patients, believes that cancer is not a death sentence. On this World Cancer Day, she pens an exclusive article for The HealthSite, where she tells us about her fight against breast cancer and the stigma that surrounds cancer.
Late childbirth linked to high breast cancer risk, finds study

Women who had their first child after 35 may be at an increased risk of developing breast cancer than their peers who do not have children, according to a study contrary to conventional wisdom that childbirth is protective against breast cancer.
Experts: Pregnancy is safe for breast cancer survivors

Pregnancy is possible for breast cancer patients. Currently, there is no reason or evidence to believe that becoming pregnant after treatment for breast cancer can cause any risk to the mother or the baby.
Is Dr Google trustable for your health problems

Women, particularly those with no formal educational, were found to be less positive about the usefulness of 'Dr Google' and were largely against using the internet for health information, claiming that this could lead to misdiagnosis or to unnecessarily worry about what their symptoms might mean.
Surgeons' convention expresses concern over high incidence of cancer, shows report

India reports two lakh new cancer patients every year, of which 40 per cent suffered from mouth and throat cancer, while women with breast cancer accounted for 25-30 per cent, said Dr Manoj Pandey, President of the Association of Surgeons of India which is holding its Annual Convention in the Taj city.
Exposure to air pollution can lead to breast cancer

Women working near busy roads are at high risk of developing breast cancer, due to traffic-related air pollution.