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...Take fibroids, for instance. Parker challenges the common misconception that fibroids can often become cancerous; the actual incidence of cancer cases in women with fibroids is very rare, less than 1 in 1,000. According to Parker, patients should treat fibroids by communicating with their doctor and monitoring how the fibroids make them feel-whether they cause pain, bloating or heavy menstrual bleeding and whether they affect mood and energy levels. For patients who choose to remove fibroids, there are alternatives to hysterectomy: laparoscopic myomectomy eliminates fibroids through half-inch incisions made in the abdominal wall. In fibroid embolization...
...study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that radiation from a high-resolution cardiac CT scan-the newest, noninvasive test for detecting heart disease-may slightly raise patients' lifetime risk of developing cancer. In general, the study found, the elevated risk of cancer was greatest for women and younger patients...
...Andrew Einstein, a cardiologist at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, researchers calculated the lifetime attributable cancer risk associated with radiation exposure from a single scan (called computer tomography coronary angiography, or CTCA), based on the patient's sex and age. For example, the lifetime cancer risk following one 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...
...question clinicians will need to consider is whether the benefits of CTCA outweigh the risks. In absolute terms, the lifelong attributable risk of cancer per CTCA scan was low, ranging from 0.02% (for an 80-year old man, with the dose-reduction strategy) to 1% (for a 20-year-old woman, with a regular heart and aorta scan). The benefits of CTCA are that it is noninvasive, quick (the test takes about 10 minutes), requires that the patient ingest less contrast dye than with other scans and can be performed immediately in an emergency room when someone is admitted with...
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...