Good News In the War Against Breast Cancer
There is further evidence that breast cancer rates are dropping sharply because large numbers of women have stopped taking hormone therapy for menopause.
That therapy, a combination of estrogen and progestins, can increase the incidence of breast cancer.
Researcher now have 2004 data and say the effect of women discontinuing the hormone therapy is less likely to be an anomaly. If rates had gone up again, it would have meant that their hypothesis was incorrect.
Overall, in 2003 and 2004, there were nearly 10 percent fewer breast cancer cases than expected. It is the first substantial drop in breast cancer incidence in more than a quarter century. And it involved women age 50 and older, not younger women, and nearly all the decline was in the common type of breast cancer, fed by estrogen, the so-called estrogen-receptor-positive tumors.
More here.
10 Responses to “Good News In the War Against Breast Cancer”
[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptOverall, in 2003 and 2004, there were nearly 10 percent fewer breast cancer cases than expected. It is the first substantial drop in breast cancer incidence in more than a quarter century. And it involved women age 50 and older, … [...]
I noticed you described the picture on the cover of the Philly magazine as “pandering.” Here you do the same thing with the silly touchy-feely photo of the woman.
DLS:
Well, pandering is in the eyes of the beholder, I suppose. I felt that this image from a site about breast cancer awareness was appropriate. I bring some insight to the issue altho I’m a dump old guy in that I have lost a dear friend to the disease and have others who have battled it.
The photo doesn’t bother this woman.
[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptOverall, in 2003 and 2004, there were nearly 10 percent fewer breast cancer cases than expected. It is the first substantial drop in breast cancer incidence in more than a quarter century. And it involved women age 50 and older, … [...]
Shaun Mullen wrote:
> Well, pandering is in the eyes
> of the beholder, I suppose.
People often get completely needlessly, way too artsy-fartsy with women-and-breast photos (medicine is busting its ass to fight this disease already). The rear view of someone having a mammogram, particularly someone middle-aged, is the traditional and effective photo to employ. (Obviously the photo you used, which is a form of pandering, reflects not only your preferences but the nature of the site from which you got it.)
Holly in CIN wrote:
> The photo doesn’t bother this woman.
It’s not unpleasant for me to look at, either, Holly, and I’m sure we both find the person physically attractive, but it is needless to posture and pander like this. Here we get artsy-fartsy and sappy; in the old days the AIDS activists were their own worst enemies with their crappy behavior. (And my radical friend happens to be involved in the GLBT community and has helped take care of friends who have died of AIDS, so don’t bother with any false charges of lack of knowledge or understanding.) This photo here is silly and irritates those tired of the “Perpetual Victims of the CRISIS, Incorporated” attitude we often encounter.
Breast cancer is terrible and unfair. Menopause can be a wild and woolly ride too. If I were a woman, I know what I’d choose.
> Breast cancer is terrible and unfair.
Nobody’s saying that that disease, or other diseases, such as AIDS, aren’t. (If AIDS is God’s curse on homosexuals, then why don’t lesbians tend to get it, while not only others like drug users but also children and hemophiliacs, and people getting blood transfusions or transplants, do?)
[...] Good News In the War Against Breast CancerOverall, in 2003 and 2004, there were nearly 10 percent fewer breast cancer cases than expected. It is the first substantial drop in breast cancer incidence in more than a quarter century. And it involved women age 50 and older, … [...]
DLS- God don’t curse people. People curse God.