Breast cancer treatment with a drug called Tamoxifen was shown to require total darkness at night to be effective. Even low levels of light in the bedroom at night were shown to affect melatonin, a hormone that plays a role in sleep and setting the circadian rhythm. Melatonin levels were reduced with even the smallest […]
Among the seven billion people on planet Earth, one-half million die prematurely every year because of breast cancer. It is one of the most common cancers to affect women and in 2008 almost 1.4 million women were diagnosed. At the current rate of growth, one prediction has this number climbing another 50 percent – to […]
The ability to detect breast cancer is now more accurate with three-dimensional mammography tests. A new scientific study published by The Journal of the American Medical Association says that the 3D tests, also called tomosynthesis, are more effective at detecting breast cancer than normal mammograms, and also create false alarms less often. The false alarms […]
