by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 16, 2018 | Women's Health
Almost 25 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer will eventually die of that disease (SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2015, National Cancer Institute, published online April 2018). Doctor Wolfgang Janni presented data showing that breast cancer patients who...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 27, 2017 | Women's Health
In 2017, a Los Angeles jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million to a woman who claimed that talcum in J&J’s baby powder caused her ovarian cancer. This is the largest jury award so far in the more than 1,200 lawsuits filed against J&J,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 7, 2017 | Women's Health
The majority of women who have burning on urination, frequency and urgency have urinary tract infections, even if their cultures do not grow any germs (Clinical Microbiology and Infection, published online April 28, 2017). In addition to a standard urine culture,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 10, 2016 | Women's Health
New results from the WHEL (Women’s Healthy Eating and Living) Study show that women who did not eat for at least 13 hours at night (6PM to 7AM) had a 36 percent lower risk of cancer recurrence (JAMA Oncology, published online March 31, 2016). In a seven-year follow up...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 13, 2016 | Women's Health
Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) is a non-invasive cancer in the end ducts of the breast. Each year 64,000 American women are diagnosed with DCIS, amounting to 30 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer. Almost always it shows up as tiny calcium spots on a...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 7, 2016 | Women's Health
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and its incidence has increased by more than 20 percent worldwide since 2008. A study from Spain shows that women on a high-vegetable Mediterranean-type diet had close to one third the rate of breast cancer when...