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Mrs. Bush's Remarks At The Launch Of The U.S.-Mexico Partnership For Breast Cancer Awareness And Research
Categorie : Breast Cancer"Thank you very much, Ambassador. Good morning. Thank you all for your very warm welcome to Mexico City. I can't imagine a better reason to be here than talking about what our nations are doing together to raise awareness of breast cancer and strengthen medical collaboration to treat this disease. I ...
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Mon Mar 2008
Olivia's "Cruise For Our Cause'' Sails During Women's History Month To Support Women's Health Education Research
Categorie : Breast CancerWhen Olivia's "Cruise for Our Cause" heads to the Caribbean on March 30 with 1,800 women on-board, it will be the first cruise experience dedicated to breast cancer, women's health awareness and research funding. Along with the outstanding entertainment and activities travelers have come to expect f ...
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Breast Cancer Risk Lingered Years After Women Discontinued Estrogen-Progestin Therapy, Stanford Researcher Says
Categorie : Breast CancerA follow-up study of postmenopausal women who took the combination of estrogen and progestin for more than five years as part of the landmark Women's Health Initiative shows that the women continued to face an increased risk for breast cancer nearly three years after they quit taking the hormones. ...
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New Model For Breast Cancer Risk Assessment In Multiple Ethnic Groups Validated By UCSF Researchers
Categorie : Breast CancerResearchers at the University of California, San Francisco have developed a way to quickly estimate a woman's risk for invasive breast cancer. The new model, based on a measure of breast density that is already reported with the majority of mammograms today, is the first to be validated across multi ...
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Provista Life Sciences & Sonora Quest Laboratories Team Up On The BT Test(TM), A New Blood Test For Breast Cancer
Categorie : Breast CancerProvista Life Sciences LLC and Sonora Quest Laboratories announced a collaborative effort that will allow doctors and patients seeking to obtain Provista Life Science's BT Test? for breast cancer access to several strategically located Sonora Quest Laboratories phlebotomy service facilities througho ...
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Why Tumor Cells Resist Popular Breast Cancer Drug - UC Davis Cancer Center Researchers Show
Categorie : Breast CancerUC Davis Cancer Center researchers have discovered a likely reason why some tumor cells are inherently resistant - or become resistant over time - to the popular breast cancer drug trastuzumab, commonly referred to by the brand name Herceptin. One in four women with breast cancer are candidates for ...
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Breast Cancer Could Be Reduced And Existing Sufferers Helped By Drugs Like Aspirin
Categorie : Breast CancerAnti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin may reduce breast cancer by up to 20 per cent, according to an extensive review carried out by experts at London's Guy's Hospital and published in the March issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice. ...
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Breast Cancer Recurrence Linked To High Levels Of Estrogen
Categorie : Breast CancerWomen whose breast cancer came back after treatment had almost twice as much estrogen in their blood than did women who remained cancer-free - despite treatment with anti-estrogen drugs in a majority of the women - according to researchers in a study published in the March issue of Cancer Epidemiolo ...
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Bertrand Study Finds Significant Value In Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) As An Adjunctive Procedure In Breast Diagnostics
Categorie : Breast CancerA recent study performed by Dr. Margaret Bertrand, Director of Breast Imaging at Solis Bertrand Breast Center in Greensboro, North Carolina demonstrated the significant value of Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) as an adjunctive procedure in breast diagnostics; specifically demonstrating BSGI to ...
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Breast Cancer Is The Focus Of New Revelations In Epigenetic Control
Categorie : Breast CancerEpigenetic regulation - modifications to the structure of chromatin that influence which genes are expressed in a cell - is a key player in embryonic development and cancer formation. Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] in Heidelberg now gained new insight into one crucia ...
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Power-Packed Soy Breakfast Cereal Developed By U Of I Researcher
Categorie : Breast CancerBreakfast of champions? That would be a soy protein-packed, low-fat, high-fiber cereal that meets the requirements for three different FDA health claims and leaves you feeling full so you won't be tempted to eat again until lunch.University of Illinois scientist Soo-Yeun Lee has cooked up a "recipe" ...
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Susan G. Komen For The Cure Announces Global Promise Fund To Help Women Worldwide - Grants Will Help Countries Address, Decrease Breast Cancer Deaths
Categorie : Breast CancerSusan G. Komen for the CureŽ, the world's largest breast cancer organization, announced the launch of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Promise Fund. The Fund will provide grants to non-governmental organizations to develop and implement breast health and breast cancer programs and services in ...
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Can Aspirin Reduce Breast Cancer Risk?
Categorie : Breast Cancer"Will taking an aspirin a day cut the risk of breast cancer?" asks the Daily Mail. The newspaper reports that an expert analysis of 21 studies has found that "non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs [NSAIDs] - the class of common painkiller which also includes ibuprofen - could ward off the disease. ...
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Cardiac Effects Associated With Breast Cancer Treatment Appear Lower
Categorie : Breast CancerA new pilot study by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) found that breast cancer patients can be treated safely with a "dose-dense" regimen of standard chemotherapy agents and the antibody trastuzumab (HerceptinŽ), a drug that has previously been shown to cause cardiac t ...
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Link Found Between Vegetables And Decreased Risk Of Breast Cancer
Categorie : Breast CancerWhen your mother told you to eat your vegetables it appears that maternal wisdom had a scientific basis. Researchers with Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Shanghai Cancer Institute in China have discovered a possible link between a diet rich in certain vegetables and a decreased risk for brea ...
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Estrogen Levels May Determine Breast Cancer Recurrence
Categorie : Breast CancerIt appears that the higher a breast cancer survivor's level of estrogen is the greater is her risk of developing breast cancer again, according to study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. Researchers found that blood tests revealed higher estrogen levels among women whose ...
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Letrozole Therapy Beginning Long After Stopping Tamoxifen Still Offers Preventive Benefits For Breast Cancer
Categorie : Breast CancerTreatment with the aromatase inhibitor letrozole (Femara) can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence even when initiated one to seven years after a course of tamoxifen therapy. The results of a study involving women originally in the placebo arm of an international trial of letrozole will appea ...
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Breast Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) Reduces Skin Side-effects Of Radiotherapy In Early Breast Cancer
Categorie : Breast CancerBreast intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) - a technique that delivers radiation equally throughout the breast tissue and avoids radiation 'hot spots' in which some areas of the breast receive higher doses than others - reduces the skin side-effects that commonly occur with standard radiati ...
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The Mobetron Makes Groundbreaking Radiation Therapy Technique A Reality For Japanese Breast Cancer Patients
Categorie : Breast CancerIntraOp Medical Corporation (OTCBB: IOPM), announced today that doctors at Nagoya University Hospital in Nagoya, Japan, are now using the Mobetron to deliver intraoperative electron-beam radiation therapy (IOERT) to breast cancer patients. The Mobetron allows Nagoya University Hospital to employ th ...
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Femara Helps Protect Against Return Of Breast Cancer Even When Treatment Starts Several Years After Completing Tamoxifen Therapy
Categorie : Breast CancerWomen may reduce the risk of their breast cancer returning by starting treatment with FemaraŽ (letrozole tablets) anywhere from one to seven years after finishing tamoxifen therapy, according to a new analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology1. ...
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