It’s great that every October, efforts are made to increase awareness of breast cancer. To be clear, though, you probably won’t get this illness. In the United States, the estimated lifetime risk for a woman to get breast cancer is about 8% (about 1 in 12). While this...
As Halloween approaches next month, there’s a women’s health problem that really scares me. We rightfully worry about breast cancer and heart disease. But guess what? Besides these major causes of death in women, there is another much less talked about killer:...
For right now, Covid is currently the number 1 killer of Americans. Once the pandemic subsides – which *will* happen – heart disease will resume it’s #1 spot. Heart disease kills more women than cancer Heart disease kills more women than cancer, yet most women are...
This year, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I want to go back to basics. When I was in my OB/GYN residency in the early 1990’s, we lamented that “only” about 15% of menopausal women were on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)...
RIGHT NOW, YOU *DO NOT* HAVE A ONE IN EIGHT CHANCE OF BREAST CANCER Have you heard that the average woman’s risk of breast cancer is 1 in 8? This is the risk as understood by most doctors and that I have often quoted to others. One in eight sounds pretty scary, and I...
