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How to approach work after a breast cancer diagnosis

A breast cancer diagnosis affects every facet of a woman’s life. While women and their families must prioritize treatment, a host of additional variables, including work, also merit consideration after a breast cancer diagnosis. Work is an important part of life, so it’s understandable if women are concerned about how a breast cancer diagnosis will affect their careers. With that in mind, women can consider these tips as they share news of their diagnosis with their employers. ∫ Prioritize your own comfort when speaking to an employer about your diagnosis. Breastcancer.org ...

Potential warning signs for breast cancer

Breast cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in women across the globe. According to the World Cancer Research Fund International, there more than 2.26 million new cases of breast cancer in women in 2020. Such figures are sobering, but it’s important to recognize that breast cancer survival rates have improved dramatically in recent decades, providing hope to the millions of women who may be diagnosed with the disease in the years to come. Various factors have helped to improve breast cancer survival rates, and education about the disease is certainly among them. Women are ...

3 treatment options for breast cancer

Millions of women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. Such a diagnosis is never welcome, but women should know that survival rates have improved dramatically in recent decades. In fact, the World Health Organization reports that, by the end of 2020, nearly eight million women were living despite having been diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in the previous half decade. The following are three treatment options physicians may discuss with women as they begin devising ways to overcome the disease. 1. Chemotherapy Chemotherapy is used to treat various ...

7 ways to reduce breast cancer risk

Many women are concerned about the potential for developing breast cancer in their lifetimes. Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer among women in the United States and Canada. Despite that prevalence, there are ways for women to reduce their risk for breast cancer. While it is impossible to change family history or genetic markers like gene mutations that increase breast cancer risk, the following are seven ways women can lower their risk. 1. Exercise regularly and maintain a healthy weight. Physical activity and monitoring calories can keep weight in check. The Mayo Clinic ...

The role of staging when diagnosing breast cancer

A cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming, and people who receive such news may be flooded with a wide range of emotions. When delivering such a diagnosis, doctors share vital information about their patients’ disease. Those details can go a long way toward easing patients’ concerns. Staging is an important component of cancer treatment. The National Cancer Institute notes that stage refers to the extent of the cancer, including how large the tumor is and whether or not it has spread, or metastasized. Learning the stage of the cancer, which is typically expressed on a scale of 0 ...

Frontier senior a teammate, reader and volunteer

NEWPORT — Frontier High School senior Ella Mendenhall is getting a taste of the college life at Washington State Community College. Having completed her credits to graduate, Mendenhall is taking engineering courses through College Credit Plus. This semester, she is taking a Fundamentals ...