After mastectomy restoration of body symmetry, a very important aspect of coping with daily life, may be achieved either using breast forms that are suspended in a brassiere or by a new system in which breast forms are attached by adhesive strips to the thorax walls. The system promises free...
The following factors are linked to a decreased risk of breast cancer: Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) SERMs are drugs that act like estrogen on some tissues in the body such as bones, but block the effect of estrogen on other tissues. Tamoxifen is a SERM that blocks the effect of estrogen...
In the 19th century, the fashionable middle- or upper-class woman artificially constricted her waist with a corset to meet the standard of beauty of the time. The stiff corset was reinforced with whale bone or metal and laced as tightly as possible to create an unreasonably narrow waist. It wreaked...
In 1913 the first modern bra was created by a woman named Mary Phelps Jacobs when she got tired of the bones in her corset sticking out around her neckline. To solve this problem she covered them with some silk handkerchiefs and some ribbon and attached it all together with...
