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...CTCA was just 1 in 3,261 for an 80-year-old man; that risk jumped to 1 in 284 for a 40-year-old woman, and climbed higher still to 1 in 143 for a 20-year-old woman. At all ages for women, the risk of breast and lung cancers accounted for up to 85% of the total cancer risk from one scan. However, by using a radiation dose-reduction strategy during the CTCA, researchers were able to reduce overall cancer risks...
...While breast cancer survivors - like everyone else - should eat healthy foods, going overboard doesn't necessarily improve your chances of avoiding a recurrence of cancer, a new study suggests. Appearing in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the study, called the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Randomized Trial, found that diets very high in fruits and vegetables do not appear to reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence. This latest paper is one of several recent inquiries into the role of diet in cancer risk. Despite the widely held belief that...
...WHEL study, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, was designed to be more rigorous than previous research. It tracked 3,088 women aged 18 to 70, who had been treated for early stage breast cancer. The women were divided into two groups. The first group was asked to eat five servings a day of fruits and vegetables, a diet the National Cancer Institute recommends for everyone. The other group of women received intensive nutritional counseling - including cooking classes - to help them decrease their fat intake to 15% a day and increase their regular fiber intake...
...pancreatic cancers. As for the believed cancer-fighting effects of lycopene, the key anti-cancer fighting ingredient in tomatoes, the FDA was even more discouraging, saying there was "no credible evidence" to suggest that the chemical could reduce the risk of such cancers of the prostate, lung, colon, breast, ovaries or pancreas...
...late drink with him in the Johnson ranch house in Texas. Lady Bird and a staff member came down the stairs responding to LBJ's shout. They were both in pajamas and night robes. Johnson stood up, gathered them in his huge arms and began to fondle a breast of each woman. Sidey later said that Lady Bird's restraint - she did nothing, but sweetly - is what calmed him down. After the White House, when confronted with some of these stories, Lady Bird shunted all wrath aside. "Lyndon always did like the ladies...