Story originally posted on www.musclemagfitness.com Using estrogen-lowering drugs is a treatment method for controlling metastatic breast cancer. This breast cancer treatment approach is not always effective for women with metastatic breast cancer. A new cancer study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reported that raising estrogen levels for women whose metastatic breast cancer no longer responded to standard anti-estrogen treatment may stop the metastatic breast cancer progression. According to the research not only did estrogen treatment often stop breast cancer progression in 30 percent of women whose metastatic breast cancer no longer responded to standard anti-estrogen…

On November 19, 2009 the Wall Street Journal ran a story titled "A Breast Cancer Preview", the article revolves around the decision of a government panel’s decision. From the early 1990s to 2002, this same panel, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, has recommended 40 year-old women and older to get their yearly mammograms. Annual mammograms have been used as a screening tool for breast cancer, and the mortality rate tied to breast cancer has dropped 30%. Evidently, this statistic does not seem to trump the fact that if patients under 50 or over 75 without special risk factors no…