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Friday, 08 January 2010 19:53
Walking Can Cut Breast Cancer Recurrence Dramatically
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Story originally posted on www.musclemagfitness.com
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Brisk walking - about 3.0 mph on a treadmill - for three to five hours per week, or about 30 minutes a day, can net big benefits for breast cancer survivors, according to Dr. Carolyn Kaelin, a Harvard surgeon, breast cancer survivor and author of The Breast Cancer Survivor's Fitness Plan.
Walking May Reduce Breast Cancer Reoccurrence by up to 40%
Research from The Nurses Health Study published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) tracked nearly 3,000 women up to 14 years after their breast cancer diagnosis and found that cardiovascular (cardio)…
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 17:11
Selenium for prevention of breast cancer
Written by Dr. Susan Hardwicke
Years ago, prophylactic Tamoxifen was touted for women at high risk for breast cancer." With the side effects and increased risk of endometrial cancer now well known, those calls have all but disappeared in the media." Cancer survivors are continuously concerned about the possibiliy that cancer will recur, or that a second cancer will appear.
The search for chemopreventive effects from natural substances has been ongoing for decades." Recently, attention has been directed at the trace mineral selenium as one natural substance with promise." The FDA recently had to admit that selenium had proven to have beneficial effects for some…
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