Women's Health Tips

Breast Density May Determine Cancer Risk During October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an article in an online guide to women’s health released the some of the newest research findings. An issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute had contained a report information relating to the assessment of a woman’s risk for getting breast cancer.

That widely-read publication had published findings that pointed to breast density as a risk factor that should cancer play a part in the determination of a woman’s risk for breast cancer. By the same token, the techniques that could facilitate a determination of a woman’s risk for breast cancer remained an elusive ideal. The existing equipment used to examine women’s breasts was not designed to measure breast density.
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Your sexuality belongs only to you!

Create your own world where you can choose to love sex. Say “Yes” to pleasure. Create your own wonderful positive sexual relationship, the integral part of your life, a whole – person proposition with equal give and take between partners. It is not such an impossible dream. You will love it because it leads you with your inner being and because it leads you to romance, love and intimacy with your partner. You will love it because it feels good, sometimes good enough to change the course of your life. Explore the mysteries of mind and body connection. Make sex alive for you. Expand your sexual capacities. You will find pleasures you did not know that existed. Increase the quality of your life.

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A new diagnostic procedure has been called a “pap smear for breasts.” It does for breast cancer what the Pap test has done for cervical cancer. It provides a means for the early detection of breast cancer.

The test procedure calls for placement of a tiny tube in the patient’s nipple. A saline solution is sent through the tiny tube and into the breast duct. That saline solution allows the physician to wash out from the duct any loose cells. The physician then extracts the wash fluid from the patient’s breast ducts.

Analysis of the extracted fluid can be accomplished in one of two ways. Either the physician analyzes the fluid under a microscope or the physician sends the sample to a lab, where it is analyzed by means of cell cytometry. During either type of analysis, the examiner must look for a sign of cancer cells.
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