All Entries in the "Women's Health" Category

What Is Staging Or The Stages Of Breast Cancer?

The stages of breast cancer are determined by the size of the tumor, whether the cancer affects the lymph nodes or not, whether the cancer is invasive or non invasive and whether it has spread to areas other than the breast.
It is important to understand the stages of breast [...]

HER – Project To Raise Women’s Health Issues

Today being the hundredth International Women’s Day, we wonder why a day such as this is still important. Women of the first world are empowered and enabled in ways we could not have dreamed for when it was first instituted for reasons for better pay, working conditions and voting rights. Those same issues exist unchanged [...]

Endometriosis Treatment – What Are The Options?

The endometrium is the inner membrane or lining of the uterus and endometriosis occurs when cells similar to endometrial cells appear and grow in areas outside the uterus.
And as female hormones affect the endometrial membrane, so they also affect these cells growing outside of the uterus with [...]

Diet Seen To Impact Ovarian Cancer Survival Rates

According to a new study, we may now have yet another reason to eat our fruits and vegetables, and that is in order to survive ovarian cancer.
According to a new study, if woman’s diet is rich in vegetables, fruit and grains, she has a better chance at surviving ovarian cancer.
The findings were made on the [...]

Are Breast Cancer Rates Declining? If So Why?

To hear that breast cancer rates have recently seen to have been declining would be frankly unbelievable for many of us; who see women near and dear to us being diagnosed with the killer disease.
According to the study published in the American Journal of Public Health, breast cancer rates have been declining by about 2% [...]

Women’s Health Myths Busted

Here is a useful list of commonly held beliefs about women’s health which are not only untrue, but which may actually be harmful to women:

Only overweight women need worry about cholesterol. Not true.  Overweight women may be more at risk but it does not follow that women with normal weight don’t have to worry about [...]

The Most Common Bacterial Vaginosis Causes

Bacterial Vaginosis or Vaginal Bacteriosis is the most common reason for vaginal infections. There are many different bacterial vaginosis causes, though it is not clear why there is sometimes an overgrowth of normal bacteria in the vagina, leading to bacterial vaginosis.
This is a very common infection and it is thought that [...]

Bladder Polyps: When Is Removal Necessary?

Women who are diagnosed with bladder polyps may not automatically assume that there is anything serious matter with them or any cause for worry, though in cases it is possible that bladder polyps are of a cancerous nature and require removal by way of surgery.
Bladder polyps are out-pouching or growths in the [...]