Food for Breast Cancer articles
Articles are updated continually as new research becomes availableBreast cancer risk factors
- Cadmium increases the risk of breast cancer
- Do antibiotics cause breast cancer?
- Does infection with HPV (human papillomavirus) cause breast cancer?
- Does type 2 diabetes increase the risk of breast cancer?
- How does birth control pill use influence the risk of breast cancer?
- Latest research concerning benign fibrocystic breast disease and breast cancer
- Latest research concerning breast density and breast cancer
- Reasons to have regular screening mammograms starting at age 40
- Red wine: Should breast cancer patients and those at high risk drink it?
Diets for breast cancer
- Are there specific foods or diets that can cure breast cancer?
- Dietary fiber is associated with reduced risk of breast cancer
- How to optimize your breast cancer diet
- How to optimize your breast cancer diet — an example
- Is the raw food diet a good idea for breast cancer patients?
- To those who are thinking of using a raw food diet alone to treat breast cancer
Protecting our children from breast cancer
- How can we protect our daughters from breast cancer? - Childhood and puberty
- How can we protect our daughters from breast cancer? - Prenatal period and infancy
- How can we protect our daughters from breast cancer? - Teenage years and young adulthood
- How can we protect our sons from breast cancer?
Treatments: Anti-estrogens
- Latest research concerning impact of endocrine therapy on breast cancer prognosis
- What should breast cancer patients and survivors eat during tamoxifen treatment?
- What should breast cancer survivors eat during aromatase inhibitor treatment?
Treatments: Chemotherapy and radiotherapy
- Latest research concerning side effects of chemotherapy
- Latest research on factors influencing Adriamycin (doxorubicin) effectiveness
- Latest research on factors influencing Taxol (paclitaxel) effectiveness
- Latest research on radiation treatment for breast cancer
- What should breast cancer patients eat during Adriamycin (doxorubicin) chemotherapy?
- What should breast cancer patients eat during radiation treatment?
- What should breast cancer patients eat during Taxol (paclitaxel) chemotherapy?
Treatments: Radiation
Treatments: Surgery
Types: Ductal breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- Ductal breast cancer and DCIS
- What should ductal breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: HER2 positive breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- HER2/neu overexpressing breast cancer
- Latest research concerning HER2 positive breast cancer prognosis
- What should breast cancer patients and survivors eat during Herceptin treatment?
- What should HER2/neu breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: Hormone receptor positive (ER+/PR+) breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- ER+/PR+ breast cancer
- Latest research concerning hormone receptor positive (ER+/PR+) breast cancer prognosis
- What should hormone receptor positive (ER+/PR+) breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: Lobular breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- Latest research concerning lobular breast cancer prognosis
- Lobular breast cancer and LCIS
- What should lobular breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: Mixed hormone receptor (ER+/PR- or ER-/PR+) breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- ER+/PR- breast cancer
- ER-/PR+ breast cancer
- Latest research concerning mixed hormone receptor (ER+/PR- or ER-/PR+) breast cancer prognosis
- What should ER+/PR- breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
- What should ER-/PR+ breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: Other types and categories of breast cancer
- African-American breast cancer patients can improve their breast cancer outcomes
- BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers
- How can young breast cancer survivors avoid a recurrence?
- Inflammatory breast cancer
- Latest research concerning breast cancer in old age
- Latest research on breast cancer in very young women
- Male breast cancer characteristics, treatment and prognosis
- What should BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers, breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
- What should inflammatory breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: Triple negative breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- Influence of BMI, metabolic syndrome and diabetes on triple negative breast cancer prognosis
- Latest research concerning triple negative breast cancer prognosis
- Patterns of recurrence in triple negative breast cancer patients
- Prognosis of African Americans and Latinas with triple negative breast cancer
- Prognosis of triple negative breast cancer compared to other breast cancer subtypes
- Triple negative breast cancer
- Triple negative breast cancer prognosis according to age at diagnosis
- Tumor characteristics influencing prognosis of triple negative breast cancer
- What should triple negative breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Vitamins and supplements
- Can vitamin C cure or prevent breast cancer?
- How important is Vitamin D before and after breast cancer diagnosis?