The Breast Views Blog: Prevent Cancer Now!

Here's a Canada-wide movement to eliminate the preventable causes of cancer. Click the link and explore the site.
Prevent Cancer Now!

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The Breast Views Blog: This Day

Vanessa Turke helped found The Young and the Breastless, a support and advocacy group for young women living with breast cancer. She's also a brilliant artist, model for the Breast of Canada calendar, Breast Ambassador and mom.

The following link takes you Vanessa's most recent art video This Day.

To see a selection of her wonderful work, click on this link.

Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Do Breast Exams Flunk?

Here's one of two paragraphs that stood out for me in this story.

"The Cancer Society and others have lead women to believe mammography results in early diagnosis. This is a lie. It takes eight years before a lump is large enough to detect which provides time for cancer cells to spread to other areas. This is not early diagnosis. One critic said it well, "Finding a cancer this way is damage control, not prevention"."

Click on the link to read the entire story.
Do breast exams flunk?

Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Is Breast Cancer Awareness a Marketing Sham?

This feature story opens with a very interesting question.

"After 24 years of shocking pink ribbons, it has become impossible not to be aware of breast cancer. But does all that thinking pink really contribute to "The Cure," or is it actually designed to keep us from seeing red?"
Click the link to read more.AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Is Breast Cancer Awareness a Marketing Sham?

Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Censoring a cancer victim's breasts

I've recently been given a subscription to Salon.com. The following story appears in today's Broadsheet section.

I'm not sure if non-Salon subscribers will be able to click through on this link - perhaps someone will be kind enough to let me know.

This story speaks to the reality that even though our breasts can be sexual, they are also functional. But as we know, when we "reveal a nipple, all hell breaks loose."Censoring a cancer victim's breasts.

Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Plastic surgery, breast implants popular at bridal fair

Words fail me on this one people.
Plastic surgery, breast implants popular at bridal fair.

Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Breast Health Access for Women with Disabilities

According to this story, "women with disabilities often have less access to breast health services than any other group of women, according to the National Women’s Health Information Center." Read more about this issue at the following link: WOMAN TO WOMAN: Breast Health: Be Informed, Be Resourceful, Be Persistent.

Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Banking on Breast Milk

There's more to banking than high user fees and hard cold cash.

According to this story, "ten nonprofit milk banks that match donors to those searching for milk are accredited members of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America."

Read the full story here. Banking on Milk

Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Human Milk Banking Association of North America

Attention breastfeeding families!

According to this website, "The Human Milk Banking Association of North America is a multidisciplinary group of health care providers that promotes, protects, and supports donor milk banking. HMBANA is the only professional membership association for milk banks in Canada, Mexico and the United States and as such sets the standards and guidelines for donor milk banking for those areas.

If you're a breastfeeding momma who's cups runneth over, consider making a deposit. Click on the link for details. HMBANA

Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Lymphatic Breast Massage

It's time to take your breast health into your own hands!

Your lymphatic system requires movement for proper drainage and flow. To help enhance the natural movement of your lymph system, consider learning how to do a lymphatic breast massage. The following link provides easy to follow instructions. Lymphatic Breast Massage

Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Our Bodies Our Blog

Here's a site that you'll likely want to bookmark. Our Bodies Our Blog is a comprehensive womencentric blog about more than breast health and breast cancer. In fact, you may be familiar with the outstanding series of books: Our Bodies, Ourselves. I got my first edition at age 12. It became my bible. Order yours by clicking on this link: Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era



Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Dense Breasts

It doesn't matter if your breasts are big or small - but it does matter how dense your boobs are.

I know that this sounds like a bad joke. In fact researchers have determined that breast density is yet another risk factor for women and their doctors to consider when it comes to breast cancer. Click this link to read more details.The denser the breast tissue, the greater the risk of breast cancer: study

Sue Richards

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The Breast Views Blog: Mother's Milk: study

Given that breast feeding has been around since the beginning of time - and baby formula is the 'new' invention - you'd think that our culture would know everything about breast feeding and squat about formula.

Seems the opposite is true. Click the link below for the story.
Many Americans equate formula with mother's milk: study

Sue Richards

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