Battling Cancer

This is a bit of old news. However, I think this is worth posting, if only to inform people on films about cancer that they should see. And I am not referring only to “The Bucket List“  which starred Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.

There is actually a film festival focusing solely on documentaries about cancer - the first one ever! And it was held last August 2008 with an astonishingly large number of entries - over 250 from 40 different countries. Reel Lives - the Cancer Chronicles Film Festival took place during the World Cancer Congress in Geneva last summer. The film festival was organized by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), the leading international non-governmental organization dedicated exclusively to global cancer control.

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Does dense breast tissues increase your risk for breast cancer? Research studies done by Mayo Clinic researchers can now give some answers about the link between breast density and breast cancer risk. The first research showed that dense breast tissues contain more cells that may promote breast cancer while the second research showed that dense breast tissues contain more aromatase enzyme than non-dense ones. This aromatase enzyme is reported to help convert androgen hormones into estrogen which is involved in breast cancer development.

Mayo clinic researchers took 8 core-needle biopsies from the breast of 60 women volunteers, age 40 to 85. All volunteers have no history of breast cancer. These research studies were unique since previous studies have focused only on dense tissues taken from women with breast diseases.

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