Consultant, Women's Health

19/07/2025

Quashawn Chadwick was one of 42 medical students who spent the past year doing research in an NIH lab as part of our Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP). Check out the IRP "I Am Intramural" blog to learn about the research he and two of his 2024-2025 MRSP peers conducted over the past year: https://irp.nih.gov/blog/post/2025/07/the-future-doctor-is-in

13/07/2025

Heart disease, weight gain linked to higher breast cancer risk after menopause
Written by Erika Watts on July 11, 2025 — Fact checked by Jill Seladi-Schulman, Ph.D.
Weight gain and heart disease may affect breast cancer risk after menopause. Image credit: Vera Lair/Getty Images.
Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer recently examined the link between excess weight and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.
The scientists focused specifically on women who developed cardiovascular disease to see how developing this affected breast cancer.
The findings showed an especially increased risk of breast cancer for every 5 kilograms per square meter increase in body mass index (BMI) in women who developed cardiovascular disease.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Trusted Source, nearly 74% of people living in the United States have body mass index (BMI) levels that indicate either overweight or obesity.

Carrying excess weight can cause many health issues, such as type 2 diabetes and an increased risk of heart disease. Being overweight can even lead to a higher risk of developing breast cancerTrusted Source.

A new study led by researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Lyon, France set out to discover whether women who are overweight or have obesity who go on to develop heart disease or type 2 diabetes have an increased breast cancer risk.

While type 2 diabetes did not increase breast cancer risk, the study revealed that women who developed cardiovascular disease (CVD) had a 31% higher risk of breast cancer.

The study appears in the American Cancer Society’s journal CancerTrusted Source.

12/07/2025

Recent research highlights a significant link between the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) and gastric cancer, with approximately 75% of stomach cancer cases worldwide attributed to this comm

22/05/2025

YSM researchers at Yale Center are finding ways to identify the side effects of earlier, so symptoms can be managed without interrupting lifesaving .

Learn more: https://brnw.ch/21wSCnR

16/05/2025

15/05/2025

Pay attention

A new study out of Europe calls into question the long-term safety of certain junk foods like potato chips and French fries. It found that women with high dietary intakes of acrylamide had a whopping 40% higher risk of pre-menopausal . Their largest sources of this suspected carcinogen were coffee, potato , and . However, extensive research suggests that is not a problem (see my comments below). Thus, younger women concerned about cancer risk should be particularly cautious when it comes to snacking on fries and chips.
Source: Pubmed 36055962