WOMEN’S HEALTH
BREAST CANCER
Risk-reducing Strategy
It’s the most shared cancer Among Australian women, Breast Cancer. The best chance of surviving the disease is finding it early.
Awareness - The importance of Early Detection, what you should know.
SciTechDaily – News 2021
“Ultrasound Can Detect Cancers Missed by Mammography
Dr. Hooley and Dr. Mazure with the tools used for supplementary ultrasound screening. Credit: Image: Michael Marsland
New research shows that a supplementary screening with ultrasound can detect cancers missed by mammography, and reveals that women with dense breast tissue can benefit from this extra screening.
The purpose of screening examinations for breast cancer is to detect tumors before they cause symptoms such as a lump, swelling or redness. Discovering tumors in their early stages is key to reducing breast cancer mortality because they are still small and can be treated before they spread beyond the breast.
Once breast cancer has metastasized, treatments can delay progression of the disease and extend survival but it is not always a curable condition.
This, along with the fact that breast cancer risk can increase with age, is why the American Cancer Society recommends an annual mammogram, an X-ray image of the breast, for women 40 and older. Thus far, mammography is the only screening method proven in clinical studies with women volunteers to reduce the number of deaths from breast cancer through early detection.”
"This is a direct citation" Originally published By CARISSA R VIOLANTE, WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH AT YALE FEBRUARY 9, 2015. Read the full story, retrieved from https://scitechdaily.com/ultrasound-can-detect-cancers-missed-mammography/
EARTH
ECOLOGY AND THE WHALE
Thinking Globally
Whales have hidden powers. Ecosystems engineers, the Whale can help to change the face of our planet.
As a species, these animals impact on a larger scale than we think, and we need to prevent them from sliding into extinction. Saving the Whale could be more vital than we realise.
SciTechDaily - News 2021
“How Whale Poo Is Powering the World’s Rainforests
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The nutrients produced by whales when they poo has been found to fertilize the interior of forests around the world.
Big animals have the power to change the face of our planet: they sculpt woodlands, power ecosystems and can even help to fertilize the interior of rainforests.
Conservation is working to prevent the largest animals on Earth from sliding into extinction — and saving them could be more important than we ever realised.
Humans have been altering the environment for tens of thousands of years. One of the starkest consequences of this is the loss of many large animals, known collectively as megafauna, from much of the planet."
"This is a direct citation" By JOSH DAVIS, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM JANUARY 10, 2021. Read the full story, retrieved from https://scitechdaily.com/how-whale-poo-is-powering-the-worlds-rainforests/
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