Disrupting your body's natural circadian rhythm through long-term night shifts could elevate the risk of breast cancer, warns Dr Karishma Kirti.
While advanced stages of cancer may not be completely curable, with timely awareness, appropriate diagnosis and medical intervention, you can try to improve the symptoms and prolong your life span.
Cancer surgeon Dr Ramakant Deshpande answers the most crucial questions on the disease. And offers very important advice on ensuring yourself a healthy, everyday life.
The researchers have carried out a study and found the faults in a known tumour suppressor gene, called PTEN, that is a result of the failed DNA repair in a breast cell containing the mutant gene BRCA1.
Jolie carried the BRCA1 gene which leads to an increased risk in breast and ovarian cancer.
Though breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, but can rarely occur in males, because of the presence of mammary tissue in males.
Check your body for signs of breast cancer, osteoporosis.
The actress had undergone a preventive double mastectomy in 2013.
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Making healthy alterations to your diet will help starve cancer cells, suggests oncologist Dr Rakesh Bhade.
A recent study, which says two-thirds of cancers are a result of random mutations, also makes a case for the prevention, early detection and treatment of the disease
'The best way to face cancer is to get it diagnosed, staged and identify the best which line of management.'
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