Patients with cancer in both breasts accounted for about 8 percent of the total number of breast cancer patients — an increase of about five times the percentage seen two years ago, Taipei Medical University Hospital said yesterday.
At a promotional event held in central Taipei yesterday, women over 40-years-old were urged to submit to a 10-minute breast cancer screening every year.
In one case cited by the hospital, a woman surnamed Yang (楊) — who had breast cancer in her right breast 20 years ago and underwent 10 years of therapy to recover — was diagnosed with cancer in her left breast three years ago. Because the cancer was found at an early stage, it was treated quickly through surgery.
However, the center has discovered that people who had cancer in one breast are between five to nine times more likely to be diagnosed with the disease in the other breast at some point in the future, the director of the hospital’s breast center Hung Chin-Sheng (洪進昇) said.
Breast cancer can be caused by many factors, Hung said, adding that women in the higher-risk groups include: those who started having periods before they were 12 years old, women who went into menopause after they were 55 years old, women who had taken estrogen therapy to combat the effects of the menopause for more than 10 years, women on a high-fat diet or women who are obese and women over 30 years old who have never been pregnant.
The center also urged women to undertake regular breast self-examinations and to visit a doctor as soon as possible if any of the seven key signs of concern — “sunken, lump, ulcer, suppuration, enlarged pores, hard lump, swollen” — are discovered.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching