There is another side to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Christina Deans’ delayed cancer diagnosis is part of it. Last May, the 35-year-old mother of two found a lump in her right breast the size of a toonie. But it took six long months to get tests, a diagnosis and finally surgery in December to remove […]
A new paper calls into question a decades-old Canadian study that has informed breast cancer screening guidelines for women in their 40s around the world, which generally do not recommend a yearly mammogram. The commentary — co-written by researchers at The Ottawa Hospital, Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, the University of British Columbia, the University of Alberta and Harvard Medical
Researchers at Sunnybrook Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, The University of British Columbia, The University of Alberta and Harvard Medical School have published a new commentary in the Journal of Medical Screening that confirms significant flaws in two Canadian trials conducted in the 1980’s which found that mammograms for women in their 40s did not reduce death
Annie Slight has been battling breast cancer for the past eight years. Since her diagnosis in April 2013, the Montreal resident has undergone 16 treatments of chemotherapy, bilateral mastectomy, a full hysterectomy and two reconstructive surgeries. Although now in remission, she still has two more years of hormonal drug therapy to go.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and one Alberta woman is hoping her scary experience will help prevent some pain for others. Su-Ling Goh explains.
Screening is the method of detecting a cancer before it’s found by symptoms such as a lump at breast examination, skin dimpling, or a suspicious bloody or watery nipple discharge. Screening mammography identifies breast cancers at a smaller stage, before they can be felt, and when they’re less likely to have spread to other parts
