2 posts tagged estrogen receptive

A diet heavy in simple carbohydrates—sugar, white bread, cakes and cookies—can put a woman at risk of hormone-receptor-negative breast cancer, according to research in the American Journal of Nutrition’s May 2008 issue. French researchers studied the diets of 62,739 postmenopausal women from 1993 to 2002; 1812 of these women eventually were diagnosed with breast cancer.

76!!!!! 76 is a fantabulously super awesome number. Ok, here comes the math and science- 76 is the number of my CA 27.29, also known as my breast cancer tumor marker. On 1/18/08 my number was 218. So my breast cancer tumor marker is down 66% since January. A normal, cancer-free person scores <38.