ovarian cancer

Why Angelina Jolie Chose a Preventive Mastectomy

Posted on 05/14/2013 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | Personal HealthMovie star Angelina Jolie, told she was at high risk for breast cancer, underwent a preventive double mastectomy, but a prominent cancer geneticist tells AARP the actress should also consider removing her ovaries to reduce her risk of deadly ovarian cancer. Jolie, 37, revealed in a moving essay in the New York Times today that her own mother died of ovarian  cancer at 56, which is why Jolie got genetic testing that revealed she has the BRCA1 gene mutation. This …

In England, Ad Exec Saatchi Campaigns for Unproven Remedies

Posted on 03/14/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthBy Maria Cheng, Medical Writer, The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After the best-selling Irish novelist Josephine Hart died from ovarian cancer in 2011, her husband was so devastated he often went to her grave to have breakfast. And even now, Lord Maurice Saatchi describes his wife’s cancer treatment as “medieval.” A member of Parliament, he’s proposing a bill that would allow doctors to use experimental therapies even if there is no proof they work. Hart and Saatchi were an …

Pelvic Exam: One More Thing Women Can Skip?

Posted on 12/18/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthIt seems as if the annual health to-do list for women over 50 is getting shorter and shorter. All those routine tests we thought we needed every year to stay on top of things — like mammograms and Pap smears — experts now say are really unnecessary. The latest thing we should cross off the list: a yearly pelvic exam. A new study from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), says a pelvic exam, in which the physician inserts …