Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Oakland and Berkeley, CA Breast Cancer Treatment Options: Determining the Stage of Your Disease Video for Women Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer Description of breast cancer staging which includes the size of the tumor, the number of cancer nodes involved, whether the cancer has spread to other areas of the body, the rate of growth, or proliferation rate, and the hormone receptor and Her2Neu status. Also discussed are the technologies used to determine staging from pathology to PET scans and Bone scans. The purpose of this video is to guide you through the stages of evaluation of this disease, describe factors that affect prognosis, and discuss various treatments which may be appropriate for you. We don’t endorse or recommend one course of treatment over another, but rather provide this information to help you understand your options before you consult with your doctors about your treatment plan. Please note:

Hollywood actress SALMA HAYEK breastfeeds a stranger’s baby in Africa… HERE is the amazing moment . CLICK TO WATCH THE ENTIRE 8 MINUTE UNEDITED SALMA VIDEO ! The Ugly Betty star was visiting a hospital in war-torn Sierra Leone when she met a woman unable to feed her starving tot. Salma gladly came to her aid and fed the baby, ignoring the TV cameras. Salma said: “The baby was perfectly healthy, but the mother did not have any milk. “He was very hungry – I was weaning my daughter VALENTINA, but I still had a lot of milk, so I breastfed the baby. “It was amazing because he’s really looking at me and he’s very little. My baby is one year so she can suck a lot harder.” Salma later questioned whether her kind act had betrayed her own baby, but quickly realised Valentina would be proud of her. She added: “I thought about it, am I being disloyal to my child by giving my milk away? “I actually think my baby would be very proud to be able to share her milk and when she grows up I will make sure she continues to share and be a generous and caring person.”

After much sailing around the globe accompanied by her boy toy, Paris Hilton is back stateside, and last night she appeared in public for the first time since her homecoming, going to a restaurant for dinner.Obviously even sex-crazed celebrities have to eat, so thats no news. But the fact that Paris Hiltons boobs are twice the size they used to be, is. We dont know if she got implants during her stay in Brazil, or if she was wearing an overfilled water bra last night.

The reality show star told the Today show the shocking news that she has an early stage breast cancer. WHEN GIULIANA RANCIC HIT THE TODAY SHOW MONDAY MORNING, WE THOUGHT SHE WAS ABOUT TO BREAK SOME BIG BABY NEWS… BUT INSTEAD SHE REVEALED SOMETHING MUCH MORE SERIOUS… Through my attempt to get pregnant for the third time with IVF, we sadly found out that I have I found out that I have early stages of breast cancer and it’s been a shock…a lot of people have been asking…are you pregnant, but sadly we’ve had to put this off…How you found out… explains doctor you need a mammogram…I will not get you pregnant…if you have cancer…all the hormones will accelerate the cancer… ANN SAYS, how are you doing, G says…I’m ok, that was definitely the hardest day, when they came in to tell me, I just remember, it’s what you expect but so much more, incredible instant sobbing…the world just crashed down around me…I just couldn’t believe it. 36 years old, no family history… GUILIANA ALSO REVEALED SHE’LL UNDERGO SURGERY THIS WEEK, FOLLOWED BY RADIATION TREATMENT FOR 6 WEEKS…BUT ONCE SHE GETS THE ALL CLEAR, SHE SAYS, SHE’S STILL GOING TO GET PREGNANT… “I’m not going to give up…I want that baby…And this baby will have saved my life…because I’ve always said there was a master plan, why I never got pregnant…God was looking out for me….because had I gotten pregnant a few years down the line, I would have been a lot sicker, so this baby will have saved my life …

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Lifetime Television’s 13th annual “Stop Breast Cancer for Life” campaign gives new meaning to the word “bra” — slang for “friend” — when celebrities and notables from the worlds of film, television, music and sports, ranging from Fran Drescher, Daisy Fuentes, Whoopi Goldberg, Patti LaBelle, Ricki Lake, Reba McEntire, Mya, Holly Robinson Peete to a William Morris Agency executive and an ABC News Executive Producer to NFL stars Ronde Barber and Jake Delhomme, all share their very personal …

Another feature about the fatal inflammatory breast cancer. It is my hope that by posting it here, more women will be aware of it and share this with their women friends.

Often misdiagnose as an ordinary breast infection or inflammation, the deadly IBC could take your life and devastate that of all your love ones. And it often progress so rapidly that before you know it, it may be too late. Will only 6% of all breast cancers identified as inflammatory breast cancer, it is no wonder that no many women have heard of it.

Most often than not, the very first signs of inflammatory breast cancer starts with a red swollen breast, the skin around the breast can be dimple and rough like an orange peel and nipples may be retracted or flatten.

Here’s another post about inflammatory breast cancer you may like to look at

Silent breast cancer

Dr Judy Destouet, the chief of breast mammography for Advance radiology, discuss the pros and cons of using MRI to detect breast cancer with the news team from OncologyPodcasting.com.

The American Cancer Society recently release recommendations for the use of MRI for women at high risk to breast cancer. Patients who have the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene carriers are at high risk of developing pre-menopausal breast cancer. These women have a 25% lifetime risk of contracting breast cancer and is recommended to go for an annual MRI scan.

However, according to Dr Destouet, MRI is a sensitive but not necessarily accurate diagnosis of breast cancer. She advise that for the general detection of breast cancer, women should go thru the process of doing a mammogram first, after which if need be, an ultra sound and as a last resort the MRI.

And their radiologist should look at all these data and discuss the best option to proceed after all the test have been done.

New alternative to breast enlargement, involving the needle instead of the knife.

The procedure involve jabbing a substance call Macrolane into woman’s breasts and could help increase up to 1 breast size. However, it is only a temporary boost that last up to 18 months, quite unlike implant surgery and cost almost as much.

Currently not approve by FDA yet, so anyone choosing that path will have to head over to UK. But before you get all excited, listen to what Dr Youn, a certified plastic surgeon of Metro Detroit, Michigan has to comment about the procedure.

For a safer and still effective way to enlarge your breasts without going under the knife, head over to breast enhancement pills, and how it works.

Have you heard of the silent breast cancer. Silent because even the mammogram cannot detect and where no lumps can be felt on your breast. How then, will you know you have it?

Watch this news story from KOMO in Seattle to understand what I’m talking about

Can you imagine? 3 out of 4 cancer help centers personnel do not know what IBC stands for or what Inflammatory Breast Cancer means. How then will the common woman on the streets know what it is.

Well, I’m glad I shared this and hope all my readers will be informed and spread the word around to all your friends.

Just to recap, some of the symptoms of Inflammatory Breast Cancer are

* Rapid increase in breast size
* Redness
* Skin hot to the touch
* Persistent itching
* Thickening of the breast tissue

And the IBC hotline to call when in doubt is

Local 206-404-3500

Toll free 1-866-447-3467

Jade