YOUNG women who exercise 13 hours a week could lower their risk of breast cancer by up to 25 per cent, research has revealed.

Women will no longer have an excuse not to hit the gym with the latest research showing the earlier a girl becomes active, the lower the risk of breast cancer before menopause.
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LONDON: You may not be able to prevent breast cancer. But you can the risk of developing the disease to an extent — just be happy and think positively. A new study has revealed that positive thinking and happiness could reduce a woman’s chance of devel oping breast cancer by a quarter while traumatic events like divorce and bereavement might have an adverse affect.
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In this Jan. 27, 2008 file photo, Christina Applegate is shown at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file)
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THURSDAY AUGUST 7, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) — To reduce breast cancer, women would better control their level of female sexual hormone from their early childhood through menopause.   Mammogram or MRI screening should not be the first line prevention measure because they do not prevent cancer in the first place.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) — Shelley Volz, now 59, got the news about her breast cancer diagnosis 10 years ago, right before she was headed from San Francisco to New York for the wedding of her younger brother.

After much thought, she decided to tell only her mother before the wedding and to hold off telling other family members. “My mother had a typical mother’s reaction, tears and hugs, and we moved on,” Volz said. “She really appreciated the fact that I didn’t want to steal the limelight there.”

Volz waited until after the wedding celebration to calmly tell others. Ten years later, after successful treatment, she is doing fine.
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Breast cancer patients are outraged over Pharmac’s latest refusal to fund a year long course of the drug Herceptin.

Pharmac currently funds treatment with Herceptin for early stage HER-2 breast cancer for nine weeks and has been rejecting calls from clinicians and women’s health groups to fund it for 12 months.

Eight breast cancer patients had raised their own money to take Pharmac to court in February and all eight paid for their 12 month Herceptin treatment.
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