by Women's Health | Nov 8, 2018 | Health
According to recent stats, breast cancer continues to affect a significant proportion of South Africans. Example: just in 2013, over 8 000 women were diagnosed with the disease. Plus: one in 28 SA women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. It’s also the...
by Women's Health | Nov 6, 2018 | Health
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Stomach cancer isn’t crazy-common. As a woman, your lifetime odds of getting it are only one in 154, according to the American Cancer Society. That said, it can be dangerous because many of its symptoms feel like totally...
by Women's Health | Oct 18, 2018 | Health
For many women, a mastectomy remains the best chance at living their best life cancer-free. It doesn’t make the experience any less harrowing. Breast cancers tend to be especially aggressive and leave their mark not just physically but emotionally as well. Many women...
by Women's Health | Jun 12, 2018 | Health
Sealing yourself indoors seems like the best way to avoid airborne ills, but what you inhale at home can be seriously dirty too — with the worst offenders hiding in plain sight. And pollution isn’t just some foreign threat. It’s been linked to bronchitis,...
by Women's Health | Jun 8, 2018 | Health
During fall 2015, my only plans were to binge watch TV and read books until I died. I’d been diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer two years earlier, and after numerous failed treatments—from chemo to hormone therapy—I’d all but moved into the spare bedroom in my...
