Medical Staff Confuse Women With Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: Is It Breast...
Women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) need clear communication and tailored support to enable them to understand this complex breast condition, which has divided the medical profession...
View Article5 Years Later, Radiotherapy For DCIS Still Protects Against Recurrence
Radiotherapy treatment (RT) after surgery for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) [1] still has a major protective effect against recurrence more than 15 years later, according to the results of an...
View ArticleSymptoms Of Treatment-Induced Menopause In Breast Cancer Patients Eased By...
Researchers from The Netherlands have found that the menopausal symptoms caused by giving chemotherapy or hormonal therapy to younger women with breast cancer can be ameliorated considerably through...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Patients Benefit From Stress Management
A team of researchers led by Michael H. Antoni, director of the Center for Psycho-Oncology Research at the University of Miami (UM) has shown that a stress management program tailored to women with...
View ArticlePhotoacoustic Imaging Moves From Lab To Clinic
Every new imaging technology has an aura of magic about it because it suddenly reveals what had been concealed, and makes visible what had been invisible. So, too, with photoacoustic tomography, which...
View ArticlePredicting Response To Platinum Chemotherapy Via Marker Of DNA Damage
Scientists have uncovered a marker of DNA damage that could predict who will respond to platinum-based chemotherapy drugs like cisplatin or carboplatin. These drugs are widely used for ovarian cancer,...
View ArticlePredicting Chemotherapy Side Effects Through Understanding Of Individual...
The largest study ever on the effect of genetic variability on the toxicity of chemotherapy in breast cancer shows that it is possible to predict which patients are most likely to suffer serious side...
View ArticleTestosterone May Play A Role In Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Could blocking a testosterone receptor lead to a new way to treat an aggressive form of breast cancer? That's a question researchers at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and the Translational Genomics Research...
View ArticleCancer Cells Deterred By 'Bed-Of-Nails' Breast Implant
Researchers at Brown University have created an implant that appears to deter breast cancer cell regrowth. Made from a common federally approved polymer, the implant is the first to be modified at the...
View ArticleIncreased Risk Of Breast Cancer Recurrence In Overweight And Obese Women
Women who are overweight or obese when they are diagnosed with breast cancer are at higher risk of cancer recurrence or related death than are leaner women, according to a new study to be presented to...
View ArticleRemoving Breast Tumours Using Ultrasound-Guided Surgery Found To Be Preferred...
The use of ultrasound-guided surgery to remove tumours from women who have palpable breast cancer is much more successful than standard surgery in excising all the cancerous tissue while sparing as...
View ArticleBone Heath Improved By Everolimus Plus Exemestane In Post-Menopausal Women...
Results from a phase III clinical trial evaluating a new treatment for breast cancer in post-menopausal women show that the combination of two cancer drugs, everolimus and exemestane, significantly...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Tumors Spot-Frozen By Cryoablation Therapy
Individuals fighting metastatic breast cancer, where the disease has progressed to other areas of the body, may finally have another weapon in their arsenal: percutaneous cryoablation...
View ArticleAvoiding Mastectomy With Preoperative Estrogen-Blocking Therapy
Preoperative treatment with aromatase inhibitors increases the likelihood that postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer will be able to have breast-conserving surgery rather...
View ArticleGene That Encodes Crucial Pain Receptor May Be Key To Individualizing Therapy...
Nearly one in five people suffers from the insidious and often devastating problem of chronic pain. That the problem persists, and is growing, is striking given the many breakthroughs in understanding...
View ArticleTaxane Chemotherapy Resistance Seen In Some Breast Cancer Tumors
Some breast cancer tumours may be resistant to a common chemotherapy treatment, suggests recent medical research at the University of Alberta. Principal investigator Ing Swie Goping and her team...
View ArticleMetastatic Breast Cancer - Percutaneous Cryoablation May Be Treatment...
A study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. shows that percutaneous cryoablation may be provide another treatment alternative...
View ArticleLight Drinking Can Raise Breast Cancer Likelihood
The journal Alcohol and Alcoholism has published a new review of studies that have researched the association between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. The findings revealed that the risk of...
View ArticleIn Breast Cancer, Protein 'Jailbreak' Helps Cancer Cells Live
If the fight against breast cancer were a criminal investigation, then the proteins survivin, HDAC6, CBP, and CRM1 would be among the shadier figures. In that vein, a study to be published in the March...
View ArticleRecurring Breast Cancer Diagnosed A Year Earlier With New, More Sensitive...
A new blood test is twice as sensitive and can detect breast cancer recurrence a full year earlier than current blood tests, according to a scientist who reported at the 243rd National Meeting &...
View ArticleRoche's Trastuzumab Emtansine Has Positive Results Against Metastatic Breast...
Roche released an announcement today in regards to its phase three trial called EMILIA. The program compared performance of its new drug Trastuzumab Emtansine against standard treatments for...
View ArticleNew Technology Reveals Breast Cancer Risk Gene
An international team of researchers led by the University of Melbourne has used new technology to fast track the discovery of a breast cancer risk gene which could assist in the discovery of other...
View ArticleMechanism Identified That Makes Breast Cancer Invasive
A new study has identified a key mechanism that causes breast cancer to spread. The research, published by Cell Press in the journal Molecular Cell, enhances our knowledge about the signals that drive...
View ArticlePoor Prognosis In Breast Cancer Linked To PI3K/mTOR Pathway Proteins
Four proteins involved in translation, the final step of general protein production, are associated with poor prognosis in hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer when they are dysregulated,...
View ArticleShould Parents Disclose A Genetic Predisposition To Breast Cancer To Their...
When a mother undergoes genetic testing to determine whether she carries a gene for hereditary breast cancer, the parents must then decide whether and how to share this risk information with their...
View ArticleRoutine Mammograms: 10 Patients Wrongly Diagnosed For Every 1 Saved
The "should we shouldn't we" debate continues in regards to routine breast cancer screening, with new research from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), indicating that between 15% and 25% of cases...
View ArticleKey Protein Players Identified In Hard-To-Treat Breast Cancers
At the time of diagnosis, the majority of breast cancers are categorized as estrogen-receptor positive, or hormone sensitive, which means their cancerous cells may need estrogen to grow. Patients with...
View ArticleTreating Endocrine Resistant Breast Cancer Cells: 2 Specific Agents Worse Than 1
A new class of agents known as c-Src inhibitors is being tested in a number of different ways to treat breast cancer, but researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center caution that...
View ArticleNews From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: April 3, 2012
1. Mammography Screening Leads to Overdiagnosis of Breast Cancer Women undergo mammography screening to detect cancer in its early stages. Theoretically, early detection saves lives. However, newer...
View ArticleMRI Or Ultrasound Added To Mammography To Improve Breast Cancer Detection
Females at risk of breast cancer or dense breast tissue benefit from having additional MRI or ultrasound screening when undergoing their annual mammography, researchers reported in JAMA (Journal of the...
View ArticleConsumption Of Cruciferous Vegetables Linked To Improved Breast Cancer...
Eating cruciferous vegetables after breast cancer diagnosis was associated with improved survival among Chinese women, according to results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012, held March 31 -...
View ArticleLink Between Breast Cancer Resistance And Timing Of Soy Consumption
Studies exploring the relationship between soy consumption and breast cancer have been mixed, but new research introduces a new thought: Could women with breast cancer who began eating soy as an adult...
View ArticleMammography Plus Additional Screening Better For Breast Cancer Detection
A study published in the April 4 issue of JAMA reveals that ultrasound screening or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in addition to annual mammography increases breast cancer detection rates among...
View ArticleFighting Breast Cancer By Eliminating The 'Good Cholesterol' Receptor
Removing a lipoprotein receptor known as SR-BI may help protect against breast cancer, as suggested by new findings presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2012 by...
View ArticleRacial Differences In Breast Cancer Risk Influenced By Vitamin D
American women of African ancestry are more likely than European Americans to have estrogen receptor (ER) negative breast cancer. There continues to be discussion about the role of low levels of...
View ArticleMultiple Faces Of Deadly Breast Cancer Revealed
An international team of scientists, including four at Simon Fraser University, has made a discovery that will change the way the most deadly form of breast cancer is treated. The journal Nature has...
View ArticleNew Cell And Animal Model Of Inflammatory Breast Cancer Developed By Researchers
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a very aggressive, often misunderstood type of cancer that is diagnosed more frequently in younger women compared with other types of breast cancer. The five-year...
View ArticleCruciferous Vegetables Help Improve Breast Cancer Survival
Chinese women who ate plenty of cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower - cruciferous vegetables - were found to have better breast cancer survival rates compared to other breast cancer patients, researchers...
View ArticleInjectable Contraceptives May Increase Breast Cancer Risk In Younger Women
The first large-scale U.S.-based study to evaluate the link between an injectable form of progestin-only birth control and breast cancer risk in young women has found that recent use of a year or more...
View ArticleDiagnostic And Invasive Procedures Common In Women With Breast-Conserving...
Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) have high rates of diagnostic and invasive breast procedures after treatment with breast-conserving surgery (BCS) according to a study published in the...
View ArticleFalse-Positive Mammography Results And Breast Cancer Risk
False-positive mammograms could be an indicator of underlying pathology that could result in breast cancer, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
View ArticleNew Technology Can Detect Breast Cancer's Fingerprint In A Droplet Of Blood
One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. The earlier cancer is detected, the better the chance of successful treatment and long-term survival. However, early cancer...
View ArticleSurvivors Of Breast Cancer Suffer Treatment-Related Side Effects Long After...
More than 60 percent of breast cancer survivors report at least one treatment-related complication even six years after their diagnosis, according to a new study led by a researcher from the Perelman...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Risk Driven By Estrogen-Raising Gene
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK, with almost 48,000 women and about 300 men diagnosed every year. About one in eight women in the UK will develop breast cancer at some...
View ArticleInnovative Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Model
A new supplement in the journal Cancer outlines an innovative model to address a wide range of physical issues faced by women with breast cancer and offers hope for improved function and full...
View ArticleStress And How Breast Cancer Patients Manage It Can Affect Brain Function...
Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer can experience cognitive declines, such as decreased verbal fluency or loss of memory and attention. Often experienced by patients undergoing chemotherapy,...
View ArticleDiscovery Of Biomarker Family For Chemo Resistant Breast Cancers
Biomarkers which could help to predict resistance to chemotherapy in breast cancer patients have been identified by researchers from the University of Hull, UK. The researchers found a family of...
View ArticleImproved Understanding Of Cancer Progression
Researchers at the Hospital de Mar Research Institute (IMIM) have discovered that the protein LOXL2 has a function within the cell nucleus thus far unknown. They have also described a new chemical...
View ArticleTailored, Web-Based Intervention Helped Women Understand Options For Breast...
When women at high risk of breast cancer viewed a customized web-based decision guide about prevention options, they were more likely to make a choice about prevention and to feel comfortable with...
View ArticleDuring Breast Cancer Treatment, Exercise Improves Quality Of Life
Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer might fight off distressing side effects and improve psychological well-being by staying off the couch. According to the University of Miami (UM) study,...
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