Grab an Aspirin: How Aspirin May Lower Risk of Breast Cancer in Women with Diabetes

Grab an Aspirin: How Aspirin May Lower Risk of Breast Cancer in Women with Diabetes

What if the answer to breast cancer prevention in diabetic women was aspirin? Recent studies are showing a significant risk reduction in breast cancer for diabetic women who had long term use of a low-dose aspirin. More medical professionals are researching how aspirin could potentially help women’s health and also prevent breast cancer. Aspirin is … Continued

Tracking Women’s Health Through Apps

Tracking Women’s Health Through Apps

Modernism has helped so many women with technology our mothers only wished to have in the palm of their hands. With smartphones, there are so many women’s health apps for the ladies to use to help them follow-up everything we go through, such as our menstruation. These apps to track women’s health and wellness offers … Continued

New Therapies For Endometrial Cancer Resistant Patients

New Therapies For Endometrial Cancer Resistant Patients

Great news for endometrial cancer resistant patients—a new type of therapy for endometrial cancer treatment might have been discovered. With limited options for endometrial cancer therapies, this new breakthrough is a breath of relief for those patients who didn’t have any other options left for endometrial cancer care. A Treatment Option for Endometrial Cancer Resistant … Continued

Lights out: How Urban Lighting Could be a Breast Cancer Risk Factor

Lights out: How Urban Lighting Could be a Breast Cancer Risk Factor

Did you ever think you would hear street lights being a breast cancer risk factor? A recent study states urban lighting is becoming a risk factor for breast cancer. But how does the streetlight become a risk factor for women’s health when women use street lights without even thinking about it? How Street Lights Can … Continued

Life after a Hysterectomy: What Happens after Your Hysterectomy Procedure?

Life after a Hysterectomy: What Happens after Your Hysterectomy Procedure?

What happens with life after a hysterectomy? Women are hesitant about a hysterectomy because they worry about how the procedure will affect their life. A hysterectomy is an important part of a women’s health and women’s care. Life after a hysterectomy brings its own set of conditions. Understanding what actually happens after a hysterectomy should … Continued

Things Women Can Do for Cancer Prevention

Things Women Can Do for Cancer Prevention

With approximately 98,000 women around the world developing breast cancer or gynecological cancer between 2015 to 2016, the factors leading to the cancers were completely preventable. Cancer prevention is the one solution to help women from developing cancer. If more women would take preventative cancer care, there would be less of a risk of women … Continued

Preventative HPV Treatment at a Later Age

Preventative HPV Treatment at a Later Age

Human papillomavirus infections are common among sexually active individuals and prevention for HPV is common during the ages of 9-26. When the prime age to get treatment for HPV is between 9-26, what are the HPV treatments for adults past the prime age? There is a vaccination available for adults covering certain strains of the … Continued

Don't Stay Silent: 5 Symptoms You Should Talk Your Gynecologic Oncologist about

Don’t Stay Silent: 5 Symptoms You Should Talk Your Gynecologic Oncologist about

Are you at a lost for words when it comes to asking questions about your vaginal health? Women visit their gynecologic oncologist and will shy away from letting their doctors know about certain symptoms they are experiencing. Some symptoms are more normal than others, but there are cases where symptoms are more severe than they … Continued

The Difference between a Gynecologic Oncologist and an OB/GYN

The Difference between a Gynecologic Oncologist and an OB/GYN

Which is which? Women’s care doctors can be tricky to not get confused. The difference between a gynecologic oncologist versus an OB/GYN can get women to think twice about whether they are visiting the right doctor. Although they have gynecology and women’s health in common, their duties are fairly different. Once you understand the differences … Continued