Women and Cancer
Choriocarcinoma
Choriocarcinoma is an aggressive cancer of the placenta. It is a quick growing form of cancer that occurs in a woman’s uterus after a pregnancy, miscarriage, or abortion. In approximately 50% of cases of choriocarcinoma, the woman had a hydatidiform mole (molar pregnancy). A minority of cases arise in the testis or the ovaries. In […]
Lower Your Risk of Having Breast Cancer
Everybody seems to know a person with breast cancer and there are thousands of women living everyday under the risk of developing breast cancer. Doctors don’t know what exactly produces breast cancer, but there are a lot of known risk factors.
Breast Cancer – Risk Factors
A risk factor is anything that increases your chance of getting a disease, but the fact you have one or several risk factors doesn’t mean you are going to have the disease. In the same time, the fact you are not having any risk factor doesn’t mean you will never have cancer, but the probability […]
