breast cancer

When the Juno award-winning rock star found out she had cancer, she thought things couldn’t get much worse. Then her husband left her

By now consumers are well used to reading the labels of food products before deciding to purchase them. Ingredients such as trans fats and preservatives often act as red flags when deciding between one product and another at the grocery store.

There is a cure for holiday-related muffin top and it involves less pain, suffering and self-hatred than you might imagine.

Last week the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care released new guidelines for breast-cancer screening for Canadian women: their recommendations are now that women under 50 who have an average risk of developing breast cancer should not have routine mammograms, women 50 and older should have mammograms every two to three years, and clinical breast exams and self exams shouldn't be used.

For someone delivering good news, my doctor could have shown a little more enthusiasm and showmanship. Just two weeks ago I sat across the desk from him, getting the results of the genetic testing that I had done about six months earlier.