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Breast Cancer Recurrence Linked To High Levels Of Estrogen

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Women 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 ...

read more Women 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 read more Wed Mar 2008

Bertrand Study Finds Significant Value In Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) As An Adjunctive Procedure In Breast Diagnostics

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A 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 ...

read more A 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 read more Wed Mar 2008

Breast Cancer Is The Focus Of New Revelations In Epigenetic Control

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Epigenetic 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 ...

read more Epigenetic 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 read more Wed Mar 2008

Power-Packed Soy Breakfast Cereal Developed By U Of I Researcher

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Breakfast 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" ...

read more Breakfast 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 read more Wed Mar 2008

Susan G. Komen For The Cure Announces Global Promise Fund To Help Women Worldwide - Grants Will Help Countries Address, Decrease Breast Cancer Deaths

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Susan G. Komen for the Cure�, 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 ...

read more Susan G. Komen for the Cure�, 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 read more Wed Mar 2008

Can Aspirin Reduce Breast Cancer Risk?

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"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. ...

Cardiac Effects Associated With Breast Cancer Treatment Appear Lower

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A 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 (Herceptin�), a drug that has previously been shown to cause cardiac t ...

read more A new pilot study by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) found that breast cancer patients can be treated safely with a read more Wed Mar 2008

Link Found Between Vegetables And Decreased Risk Of Breast Cancer

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When 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 ...

read more When 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 read more Wed Mar 2008

Estrogen Levels May Determine Breast Cancer Recurrence

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It 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 ...

read more It 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 read more Wed Mar 2008

Letrozole Therapy Beginning Long After Stopping Tamoxifen Still Offers Preventive Benefits For Breast Cancer

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Treatment 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 ...

read more Treatment 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 read more Wed Mar 2008

Breast Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) Reduces Skin Side-effects Of Radiotherapy In Early Breast Cancer

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Breast 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 ...

read more Breast 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 read more Wed Mar 2008

The Mobetron Makes Groundbreaking Radiation Therapy Technique A Reality For Japanese Breast Cancer Patients

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IntraOp 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 ...

read more IntraOp 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 read more Wed Mar 2008

Femara Helps Protect Against Return Of Breast Cancer Even When Treatment Starts Several Years After Completing Tamoxifen Therapy

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Women may reduce the risk of their breast cancer returning by starting treatment with Femara� (letrozole tablets) anywhere from one to seven years after finishing tamoxifen therapy, according to a new analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology1. ...

read more Women may reduce the risk of their breast cancer returning by starting treatment with Femara� (letrozole tablets) anywhere from one to seven years after finishing tamoxifen therapy, according to a new analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology1. read more Wed Mar 2008

Letrozole Reduces Risk Of Breast Cancer Recurrence And Metastasis Even If Started Years After Tamoxifen

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A multicenter phase III clinical trial has reported that the drug letrozole cuts the risk of breast cancer recurrence by 63 percent and the risk of cancer spread by 61 percent in postmenopausal women with early-stage disease who completed five years of tamoxifen therapy one to seven years earlier. T ...

read more A multicenter phase III clinical trial has reported that the drug letrozole cuts the risk of breast cancer recurrence by 63 percent and the risk of cancer spread by 61 percent in postmenopausal women with early-stage disease who completed five years of tamoxifen therapy one to seven years earlier. T read more Wed Mar 2008

Breast Cancer Services Must Meet Challenge Of Increased Incidence, Says World's First National Mastectomy Audit

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Only one in ten of women with breast cancer are getting access to reconstruction surgery at the time of their mastectomy, despite recommendations from the National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in 2002* that it should be available to all. These are the early findings of the Nat ...

read more Only one in ten of women with breast cancer are getting access to reconstruction surgery at the time of their mastectomy, despite recommendations from the National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in 2002* that it should be available to all. These are the early findings of the Nat read more Wed Mar 2008

Taking The Fight Against Cancer To Heart

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Hormones produced by the heart eliminated human pancreatic cancer in more than three-quarters of the mice treated with the hormones and eliminated human breast cancer in two-thirds of the mice, according to researcher David Vesely, a doctor at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa and a pro ...

read more Hormones produced by the heart eliminated human pancreatic cancer in more than three-quarters of the mice treated with the hormones and eliminated human breast cancer in two-thirds of the mice, according to researcher David Vesely, a doctor at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa and a pro read more Tue Mar 2008

Pin Point Radiotherapy Procedure Proved Success For Breast Cancer

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A large scale trial conducted at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan has proved a novel radiotherapy procedure to be a great success both in terms of medical results and cost effectiveness. The study, published today in the peer-reviewed journal ...

read more A large scale trial conducted at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan has proved a novel radiotherapy procedure to be a great success both in terms of medical results and cost effectiveness. The study, published today in the peer-reviewed journal read more Tue Mar 2008

FDA Grants Accelerated Approval Of Avastin For Late-Stage Breast Cancer

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FDA granted accelerated approval to Genentech's cancer treatment Avastin for metastatic breast cancer treatment Friday despite an agency advisory panel recommendation against approval of the drug for that purpose, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports (Perrone, AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/23). ...

read more FDA granted accelerated approval to Genentech's cancer treatment Avastin for metastatic breast cancer treatment Friday despite an agency advisory panel recommendation against approval of the drug for that purpose, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports (Perrone, AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/23). read more Tue Mar 2008

Considerable Wage Losses Incurred By Breast Cancer Patients In First Year After Diagnosis

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Canadian women diagnosed with early breast cancer lose, on average, more than a quarter of their typical income during the first 12 months after their diagnosis, according to a study published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.Although a number of studies have assessed the econo ...

read more Canadian women diagnosed with early breast cancer lose, on average, more than a quarter of their typical income during the first 12 months after their diagnosis, according to a study published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.Although a number of studies have assessed the econo read more Tue Mar 2008

AMA Applauds Bill To Research Links Between Breast Cancer And The Environment

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"The American Medical Association applauds members of the U.S. Senate for their work to determine the potential links between the environment and breast cancer through the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act of 2007 (S. 579). Greater funding for research to better understand the relationshi ...