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The following article has two objectives: to provide clinically relevant information on the use of herbs in the treatment of breast cancer and to provide a context for their use. What follows is a distillation of some of the more effective botanicals, as well as some suggestions about how to use them in the setting of breast cancer.
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The successful treatment of General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) often requires a combination of a variety of modalities ranging from psychotherapy, behavior modification, pharmaceuticals, acupuncture, and/or mind-body techniques such as meditation or self-hypnosis.
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Most of us dread the chief complaint of weakness. This nonspecific symptom engenders a differential that ranges from malingering to fatal, from psychiatric to cancer. The finding of demonstrable muscle weakness helps, but then leads to a confusing set of relatively rare diagnoses.
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Another monoclonal antibody to TNF-a has been approved for the treatment of Crohn's Disease.
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Clinicians are becoming more attuned to the many complications of influenza, particularly with the high morbidity and mortality seen with H5N1 strains spreading around the world.
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In 2007, the ACCF/AHA published a consensus statement in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology endorsing a role for coronary artery calcium scoring (CAC) in cardiovascular risk stratification.
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One-time screening for abdominal aortic Aneurysms (AAA) is recommended in older men, but there is little long-term data on the value of such screening, especially in women.
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For those women who were randomized to estrogen plus progesterone in the Women's Health Initiative Trial, the increased risk of breast cancer has persisted since stopping the replacement therapy, but the increased risk of cardiovascular events has returned to that of the placebo group.